Contents -- Illustrations -- Notes on Contributors -- Preface -- 1 Laocoon's Point of View: Walking the Roman Way -- 2 Life as Play, Life as a Play: Montaigne and the Epicureans -- 3 Bicycles, Centaurs and Man-faced Ox-creatures: Ontological Instability in Lucretius -- 4 Didaxis, Rhetoric, and the Law in Lucretius -- 5 Making an Exemplum of Yourself: Cicero and Augustus -- 6 Natura narratur: Tullius Laurea's Elegy for Cicero (Pliny, Nat. 31.8) -- 7 Contrasts -- 8 Horace's Body, Horace's Books -- 9 Ovid Among the Conspiracy Theorists -- 10 'Haec tum Roma fuit': Past, Present, and Closure in Silius Italicus' Punica -- 11 Petrarch's Lucan and the Africa -- 12 Translating Antiquity: Intertextuality, Anachronism, and Archaism -- 13 Fiction, Philosophy, and Logical Closure -- 14 From Man to Book: The Close of Tacitus' Agricola -- Consolidated Bibliography -- Bibliography of Don Fowler -- Index locorum -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- H -- I -- J -- L -- M -- O -- P -- Q -- S -- T -- V -- Index rerum et nominum -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Z.