Rome's Visceral Reactions

In ancient Rome, the Latin word viscera denoted the inner parts of the body, where physical sensations related to fear and anger could be felt and whose injury meant certain death. Viscera were also entangled with religious, political, and reproductive imagery: the word could refer to cuts of sacrif...

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Main Author:	Hines, Caitlin
Format:	Online
Language:	English
Published:	University of Michigan Press 2026
Subjects:	body metaphor, semantic change, viscera, ancient Rome, Latin literature, Latin poetry, Latin language, Cicero, Vergil, Ovid, Lucan, Seneca, Roman republic, Roman empire, Augustan literature, Neronian literature, Latin epic, Latin elegy, Latin tragedy, conceptual metaphor theory, embodied metaphor, intertextuality, cultural discourse, situational semantics, civil war, fertility politics, Roman sacrifice thema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::DN Biography and non-fiction prose::DNT Anthologies: general thema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::DB Ancient, classical and medieval texts thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHD European history::NHDA European history: the Romans thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JH Sociology and anthropology::JHM Anthropology::JHMC Social and cultural anthropology
Online Access:	ONIX_20260112T111714_9780472905393_3
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