Roman Readings : : Roman response to Greek literature from Plautus to Statius and Quintilian /

Roman Readings : : Roman response to Greek literature from Plautus to Statius and Quintilian / / Elaine Fantham.

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This volume presents closely connected articles by Elaine Fantham, which deal with Roman responses to Greek literature on three major subjects: the history and criticism of Latin poetry and rhetoric, women in Roman life and dramatic poetry and the poetic representation of children in relation to the...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Backlist Complete English Language 2000-2014 PART1
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Fantham, Elaine,
Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2011]
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Year of Publication:2011
Language:English
Series:Beiträge zur Altertumskunde , 277
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Physical Description:1 online resource (634 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Content
  • Introduction
  • I Comedy and Sexuality
  • 1. Act 4 of the Menaechmi: Plautus and His Original
  • 2. The Madman and the Doctor
  • 3. Philemon’s Thesauros as a Dramatization of Peripatetic Ethics
  • 4. Heautontimoroumenos and Adelphoe : A Study of Fatherhood in Terence and Menander
  • 5. Sex, Status and Survival in Hellenistic Athens: A Study of Women in New Comedy
  • 6. Stuprum: Public Attitudes and Penalties for Sexual Offences in Republican Rome
  • 7a. Domina-tricks, or How to Construct a Good Whore from a Bad One
  • 7b. Women of the Demi-Monde and Sisterly Solidarity in the Cistellaria
  • 7c. Maidens in Other-Land, or Broads Abroad: Plautus’ Poenulae
  • 8. Terence and the Familiarization of Comedy
  • 9. Roman Experience of Menander in the Late Republic and Early Empire
  • 10. Mime: The Missing Link in Roman Literary History
  • II Rhetoric and Literary culture
  • 11. Imitation and Evolution: The Discussion of Rhetorical Imitation in Cicero De oratore 2.87–97 and Some Related Problems in Ciceronian Theory
  • 12. Imitation and Decline: Rhetorical Theory and Practice in the First Century AD
  • 13. Orator and/et Actor
  • 14. Disowning and Dysfunction in the Declamatory Family
  • 15. Quintilian on the Uses and Methods of Declamation
  • 16. The Concept of Nature and Human Nature in Quintilian’s Psychology and Theory of Instruction
  • 17. The Synchronistic Chapter of Gellius (N.A. 17.21) and Some Aspects of Roman Chronology and Cultural History Between 60 and 50 BCE
  • III Ovid’s Narrative Poem, the Fasti
  • 18. Sexual Comedy in Ovid’s Fasti : Sources and Motivation
  • 19. The role of Evander in Ovid’s Fasti
  • 20. Ceres, Liber and Flora: Georgic and Anti-Georgic Elements in Ovid’s Fasti
  • 21. The Fasti as a Source for Women’s Participation in Roman Cult
  • IV Passion and Civil War in Roman Tragedy and Epic: Seneca, Lucan and Statius
  • 22. Andromache’s Child in Euripides and Seneca
  • 23. Statius’ Achilles, and His Trojan Model
  • 24. Incest and Fratricide in Seneca’s Phoenissae
  • 25. Caesar and the Mutiny: Lucan’s Reshaping of the Historical Tradition in De Bello Civili 5.237–373
  • 26. Religio … dira loci : Two Passages in Lucan De Bello Civili 3 and Their Relation to Virgil’s Rome and Latium
  • 27. The Angry Poet and the Angry Gods: Problems of Theodicy in Lucan’s Epic of Defeat
  • 28. Discordia fratrum : Aspects of Lucan’s Conception of Civil War
  • 29. Statius’ Thebaid and the Genesis of Hatred
  • 30. The Perils of Prophecy: Statius’ Amphiaraus and His Literary Antecedents
  • 31. Chironis exemplum : On Teachers and Surrogate Fathers in Achilleid and Silvae

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