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ANOTHER COMPANION TO ROMAN COMEDY

The jacket summary positions it as a resource for coming to grips with a foundational understanding of how Roman authors adopt and fashion their authorial personae, a view corroborated by the lengthy index entry for ‘self’, but, ultimately, a positioning that the volume far outpaces in its ambitiousness. One element that does stake a qualifying claim of attention within this sphere that could have provided a satisfactory anchoring point is the ultimate expression of the weaker voice: voicelessness, which finds expression across any number of Latin texts. Altogether, the cumulative illumination of these ‘complex inferiorities’ has provided a new, sharp critical perspective with which to consider Latin literature. Personally, it made me reach immediately for Propertius 4.7: if, as voiced in oratorical treatises, ‘blood’ is the stylistic component to the ‘bones’ of rhetoric, is Cynthia’s haranguing speech, so redolent of the Ciceronian Pro Caelio, rendered humorously harmless by her literal ‘bloodlessness’? Her bodily inferiority (also literal, belonging to the world below) and feminine identity, seeking to break out from the controlling pen of the poet, makes this poem an especial work that crystallises the preoccupying thematics of the volume, and provides just one such case for its immediate, thought-provoking impact.