Laetae latebrae litterarum

The contributions offer fresh and unusual insights into numerous topics of Roman antiquity, including the mystery surrounding Ovid's banishment, Ovid's role as an investigative poet and subtle critic of Augustan ideology, Caesar's exciting pictorial program in the Temple of Venus Genetrix, underestimated Neptunian connotations of the figure of Augustus, a comprehensive comparison of the Imperium Romanum with the USA as well as re-readings of ancient literature, for example on privatization and conspiracy theories, analyses of exciting texts by neo-Latin poets (Hermann Weller, Josef Eberle, Giovanni Pascoli), who poetically deal with phenomena of their time such as the mood of Europe before the First World War, the Holocaust and the Nazi regime.