Contents
Translator’s Preface
Author’s Preface and Acknowledgments
Part 1. Mythology
Chapter 1. Hermes’ Ears: Places and Symbols of Communication in Ancient Culture
Chapter 2. Brutus the Fool
Part 2. Social Practices
Chapter 3. Mos, Mores and Mos Maiorum: The Invention of Morality in Roman Culture
Chapter 4. Face to Face in Ancient Rome: The Vocabulary of Physical Appearance in Latin
Part 3. Doubles and Images
Chapter 5. Sosia and His Substitute: Thinking the Double at Rome
Chapter 6. Ghosts of Exile: Doubles and Nostalgia in Vergil’s Parva Troia
Chapter 7. Death and Its Double: Imagines, Ridiculum and Honos in the Roman Aristocratic Funeral
Chapter 8. Argumentum
Bibliography
Index