Jan 13: Slavery’s Affects and the Roman Literary Imagination

Slavery’s Affects and the Roman Literary Imagination

Dan-El Padilla Peralta
Princeton University, Professor of Classics

Riffing on William Fitzgerald’s Slavery and the Roman Literary Imagination, I hope to show in this paper that various kinds of literary and para-literary production in the Roman Empire seek to model an affective system specific to enslaved and formerly enslaved persons.

January 13th | 4-6pm | Sproul 912