Roman Readings : Roman Response to Greek Literature from Plautus to Statius and Quintilian.

By: Fantham, ElaineMaterial type: TextTextSeries: Beiträge Zur Altertumskunde SerPublisher: Berlin/Boston : De Gruyter, Inc., 2011Copyright date: ©2011Description: 1 online resource (634 pages)Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9783110229349Subject(s): Latin literature -- History and criticism | Rhetoric, AncientGenre/Form: Electronic books.Additional physical formats: Print version:: Roman Readings : Roman Response to Greek Literature from Plautus to Statius and QuintilianDDC classification: 870.9 LOC classification: PA6011.F36 2011Online resources: Click to View
Contents:
Intro -- 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.
Summary: The volumes published in the series "Beiträge zur Altertumskunde" comprise monographs, collective volumes, editions, translations and commentaries on various topics from the fields of Greek and Latin Philology, Ancient History, Archeology, Ancient Philosophy as well as Classical Reception Studies. The series thus offers indispensable research tools for a wide range of disciplines related to Ancient Studies.
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Intro -- 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.

The volumes published in the series "Beiträge zur Altertumskunde" comprise monographs, collective volumes, editions, translations and commentaries on various topics from the fields of Greek and Latin Philology, Ancient History, Archeology, Ancient Philosophy as well as Classical Reception Studies. The series thus offers indispensable research tools for a wide range of disciplines related to Ancient Studies.

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