Table of Contents:
  • Hermes' ears : places and symbols of communication in ancient culture
  • Brutus the fool
  • Mos, mores, and mos maiorum : the invention of morality in Roman culture
  • Face to face in ancient Rome : the vocabulary of physical appearance in Latin
  • Sosia and his substitute : thinking the double at Rome
  • Ghosts of exile : doubles and nostalgia in Vergil's Parva troia
  • Death and its double : imagines, ridiculum, and honos in the Roman aristocratic funeral
  • Argumentum.