Unspoken Rome: absence in Latin literature and its reception

Latin literature’s sensitivity to politics leaves it ripe for repression of all sorts of names, places and historical events, while its dense allusivity appears to hide interpretative clues in a network of texts that only the reader’s consciousness can make present. This volume showcases innovative approaches to the field of Latin literature, all refracted through this prism of absence, which functions as a fundamental generative force both for the hermeneutics and the ongoing literary aftermath of these texts.