Showcases innovative approaches to Latin literature by reading textual absence as a generative force for literary interpretation and reception. Includes chapter

Latin literature is a hotbed of holes and erasures. Its sensitivity to politics leaves it ripe for repression of all sorts of names, places and historical event

Unfinishedness and incompleteness are a central feature of ancient Greek and Roman literature that has often been taken for granted but not deeply examined; man

Lissa Randall's future was bright with academic promise until the tragic accident that took her mother's life--and brought her own plans to a screeching halt. E

This book affords new perspectives on urban disasters in the ancient Roman context, attending not just to the material and historical realities of such events,