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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Fantham, Elaine.

Series:

Beiträge zur Altertumskunde ; Bd. 277.

Beiträge zur Altertumskunde, 1616-0452 ; Bd. 277

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Latin literature--History and criticism.

Latin literature.

Rhetoric, Ancient.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (664 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : De Gruyter, 2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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 their mothers and teachers. The volume opens with papers on Roman comedy: Menaechmi, Trinummus, Hautontimorumenos, papers on women of the demimonde in Truculentus and Eunuchus, Cistellaria and Poenulus. The second part deals with rhetoric, including the subject of imitation as a stylistic feature, the study of performance comparing oratory and comedy and of declamation. Papers on Ovid's Fasti include a study of failed rape-scenes and papers concerned with women's cults. The last part (Senecan tragedy, Lucan, Statius) focuses on Lucan's Civil War and his treatment of Caesar as well as Statius' Thebaid and Achilleid.

Contents:

Comedy and sexuality

Rhetoric and literary culture

Ovid's narrative poem, the Fasti

Passion and civil war in Roman tragedy and epic : Seneca, Lucan and Statius.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786613165305

9781283165303

1283165309

9783110229349

311022934X

OCLC:

723945489