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Author : Christopher B. Polt
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2021-01-21
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781108839815
Argues that Catullus adapts Roman comedy to explore private ideas about love, friendship, and social rivalry.
Author : Alison Sharrock
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2009-09-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9781139482646
For many years the domain of specialists in early Latin, in complex metres, and in the reconstruction of texts, Roman comedy is now established in the mainstream of Classical literary criticism. Where most books stress the original performance as the primary location for the encountering of the plays, this book finds the locus of meaning and appreciation in the activity of a reader, albeit one whose manner of reading necessarily involves the imaginative reconstruction of performance. The texts are treated, and celebrated, as literary devices, with programmatic beginnings, middles, ends, and intertexts. All the extant plays of Plautus and Terence have at least a bit part in this book, which seeks to expose the authors' fabulous artificiality and artifice, while playing along with their differing but interrelated poses of generic humility.
Author : John Henderson
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 397 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1998-12-17
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780191584428
In a series of controversial essays, this book examines the Roman penchant for denigration, and in particular self-denigration, at the expense of Roman culture. Comedy in Republican Rome radically transformed both itself and the culture from which it sprang: in Poenulus, Plautus laughed at Roman depreciation of Carthage; in Adelphoe, Terence turned on his audience in provocation. The comic Roman poets played with self-mockery: in Eclogue III, Virgil tests his audience's security in judging peasant unpleasantness; in Odes III.22, Horace sends up his own pious rusticity down on the farm. In the second half of the book, Roman verse satire is the subject: the genre of male bragging mocks its own masculine aggression. The great Latin satirists make fun of making fun: Horace, Satires I.9, shows up the politics of humour, unmanned by his own good manners; Persius nails his own weaknesses in fortifying himself against the world; Juvenal, Satire 1, loathes the literary scene he bids to dominate. The book shows a vital ingredient of Roman poetry to be an energetic surge of urbane banter directed towards Roman culure.
Author : Mathias Hanses
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 427 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2020-12-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9780472132256
The Life of Comedy after the Death of Plautus and Terence documents the ongoing popularity of Roman comedies, and shows that they continued to be performed in the late Republic and early Imperial periods of Rome. Playwrights Plautus and Terence impressed audiences with stock characters as the young-man-in-love, the trickster slave, the greedy pimp, the prostitute, and many others. A wide range of spectators visited Roman theaters, including even the most privileged members of Roman society: orators like Cicero, satirists like Horace and Juvenal, and love poets like Catullus and Ovid. They all put comedy’s varied characters to new and creative uses in their own works, as they tried to make sense of their own lives and those of the people around them by suggesting comparisons to the standard personality types of Roman comedy. Scholars have commonly believed that the plays fell out of favor with theatrical audiences by the end of the first century BCE, but The Life of Comedy demonstrates that performances of these comedies continued at least until the turn of the second century CE. Mathias Hanses traces the plays’ reception in Latin literature from the late first century BCE to the early second century CE, and shines a bright light on the relationships between comic texts and the works of contemporary and later Latin writers.
Author : Katherine A. Geffcken
Publisher : Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1973-01-01
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 0865162875
When it was announced several years ago that Cicero's Pro Caclio would be added as an acceptable alternate for the AP Latin Literature syllabus, teachers began searching for materials that would assist them in teaching this particular text. Now one of the best such resources, Katherine Geffcken's fascinating (though hitherto difficult-to-obtain) volume on the Pro Caelio...has been attractively and inexpensively reissued ....
Author : David Konstan
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 185 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2018-08-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781501731754
This book explores the social institutions, the prevailing social values, and the ideology of the ancient city-state as revealed in Roman Comedy. "The very essence of comedy is social," writes David Konstan, "and in the complex movement of its plots we may be able to discern the lineaments and contradictions of the reigning ideas of an age." David Konstan looks closely at eight plays: Plautus's Aulularia, Asinaria, Captivi, Rudens, Cistellaria, and Truculentus, and Terence's Phormio and Hecyra. Offering new interpretations of each, he develops a "typology of plot forms" by analyzing structural features and patterns of conventional behavior in the plays, and he relates the results of his literary analysis to contemporary social conditions. He argues that the plays address tensions that were potentially disruptive to the ancient city-state, and that they tended to resolve these tensions in ways that affirmed traditional values. Roman Comedy is an innovative and challenging book that will be welcomed by students of classical literature, ancient social history, the history of the theater, and comedy as a genre.
Author : George E. Duckworth
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 526 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2015-03-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781400872374
This book provides the most complete and definitive study of Roman comedy. Originally published in 1952. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
Author : Martin T. Dinter
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 449 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2019-04-04
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781107002104
Provides a comprehensive critical engagement with Roman comedy and its reception presented by leading international scholars in accessible and up-to-date chapters.
Author : Sander M. Goldberg
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2005-11-07
Category : History
ISBN : 052185461X
Becoming Roman Literature examines the problem of Rome's literary development by shifting attention from Rome's writers to its readers. The literature we traditionally call "early " is seen to be a product less of the mid-Republic, when poetic texts began to circulate, than of the late Republic, when they were systematically collected, canonized, and put to new social and artistic uses. Imposing on texts the name and function of literature was thus often a retrospective activity. This book explores the development of this literary sensibility from the Romans' early interest in epic and drama, through the invention of satire and the eventual enshrining of books in the public collections that became so important to Horace and Ovid.
Author : Gesine Manuwald
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 94 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2020-04-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789004435124
This contribution by Gesine Manuwald provides an introduction to all varieties of ‘Roman comedy’, including primarily fabula palliata (‘New Comedy’, as represented by Plautus and Terence) as well as fabula togata, fabula Atellana, mimus and pantomimus.
Author : Wim Verbaal,Yanick Maes,Jan Papy
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789004153271
This volume unites, for the first time, contributions from the three fields of Latin literature: Classical, Medieval and Neo-Latin, reflecting on its continuity. It's particular interest for the studies of European literary history lies in the interactions between Latin and the national literatures.
Author : Hunter H. Gardner
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 101 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2023-11-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789004688155
Latin love elegy’s flourishing concurrent with Rome’s transition from Republic to Principate has remained an issue central to scholarship on the genre since the turn of the last millennium. This book addresses the Greco-Roman literary inheritance and Augustan socio-political context that paved the way for that flourishing, while examining the genre’s key elements and characters as illustrated in the poetry of Propertius, Tibullus, Ovid, and Sulpicia. Special attention is paid to the gendered dynamics that govern the relationship between “poet-lover” (amator) and beloved and to the role of the poet as artist and creator of a “written girl” (scripta puella).
Author : Martin Revermann
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 523 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2014-06-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521760287
This book provides a unique panorama of this challenging area of Greek literature, combining literary perspectives with historical issues and material culture.
Author : Amy Richlin
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 581 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2017-12-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107152311
Brings the voices of Roman slaves in early comedy to the history of theater and the history of slavery.
Author : Siobhán McElduff
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2013-08-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9781135069063
For all that Cicero is often seen as the father of translation theory, his and other Roman comments on translation are often divorced from the complicated environments that produced them. The first book-length study in English of its kind, Roman Theories of Translation: Surpassing the Source explores translation as it occurred in Rome and presents a complete, culturally integrated discourse on its theories from 240 BCE to the 2nd Century CE. Author Siobhán McElduff analyzes Roman methods of translation, connects specific events and controversies in the Roman Empire to larger cultural discussions about translation, and delves into the histories of various Roman translators, examining how their circumstances influenced their experience of translation. This book illustrates that as a translating culture, a culture reckoning with the consequences of building its own literature upon that of a conquered nation, and one with an enormous impact upon the West, Rome's translators and their theories of translation deserve to be treated and discussed as a complex and sophisticated phenomenon. Roman Theories of Translation enables Roman writers on translation to take their rightful place in the history of translation and translation theory.