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

Elaine Fantham

Published by De Gruyter 2011

Roman Readings

Roman response to Greek literature from Plautus to Statius and Quintilian

Elaine Fantham

Volume 277 in the series Beiträge zur Altertumskunde

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110229349

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About this book

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.

Author / Editor information

Elaine Fantham, Princeton University, USA.

Reviews

"Overall, then, this collection is an extremely valuable resource to those interested in both the broad spectrum of Latin literature ranging from comedy to Flavian poetry as well as the nuances and complexities of Greek and Roman intertextual relations. The value of this book lies in its range and richness, but simultaneously it provides the reader with fascinating insights into the genesis and evolution of a remarkable body of scholarship."
Adam Marshall in: BMCR 2012.07.11

Topics

Frontmatter Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	I
Content Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	V
Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	VII
I Comedy and Sexuality
1. Act 4 of the Menaechmi: Plautus and His Original Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	3
2. The Madman and the Doctor Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	15
3. Philemon’s Thesauros as a Dramatization of Peripatetic Ethics Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	32
4. Heautontimoroumenos and Adelphoe : A Study of Fatherhood in Terence and Menander Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	51
5. Sex, Status and Survival in Hellenistic Athens: A Study of Women in New Comedy Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	79
6. Stuprum: Public Attitudes and Penalties for Sexual Offences in Republican Rome Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	115
7a. Domina-tricks, or How to Construct a Good Whore from a Bad One Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	144
7b. Women of the Demi-Monde and Sisterly Solidarity in the Cistellaria Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	157
7c. Maidens in Other-Land, or Broads Abroad: Plautus’ Poenulae Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	176
8. Terence and the Familiarization of Comedy Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	195
9. Roman Experience of Menander in the Late Republic and Early Empire Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	215
10. Mime: The Missing Link in Roman Literary History Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	228
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 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	243
12. Imitation and Decline: Rhetorical Theory and Practice in the First Century AD Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	265
13. Orator and/et Actor Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	285
14. Disowning and Dysfunction in the Declamatory Family Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	302
15. Quintilian on the Uses and Methods of Declamation Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	320
16. The Concept of Nature and Human Nature in Quintilian’s Psychology and Theory of Instruction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	331
17. The Synchronistic Chapter of Gellius (N.A. 17.21) and Some Aspects of Roman Chronology and Cultural History Between 60 and 50 BCE Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	343
III Ovid’s Narrative Poem, the Fasti
18. Sexual Comedy in Ovid’s Fasti : Sources and Motivation Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	359
19. The role of Evander in Ovid’s Fasti Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	393
20. Ceres, Liber and Flora: Georgic and Anti-Georgic Elements in Ovid’s Fasti Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	409
21. The Fasti as a Source for Women’s Participation in Roman Cult Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	430
IV Passion and Civil War in Roman Tragedy and Epic: Seneca, Lucan and Statius
22. Andromache’s Child in Euripides and Seneca Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	457
23. Statius’ Achilles, and His Trojan Model Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	475
24. Incest and Fratricide in Seneca’s Phoenissae Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	482
25. Caesar and the Mutiny: Lucan’s Reshaping of the Historical Tradition in De Bello Civili 5.237–373 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	502
26. Religio … dira loci : Two Passages in Lucan De Bello Civili 3 and Their Relation to Virgil’s Rome and Latium Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	519
27. The Angry Poet and the Angry Gods: Problems of Theodicy in Lucan’s Epic of Defeat Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	535
28. Discordia fratrum : Aspects of Lucan’s Conception of Civil War Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	559
29. Statius’ Thebaid and the Genesis of Hatred Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	577
30. The Perils of Prophecy: Statius’ Amphiaraus and His Literary Antecedents Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	607
31. Chironis exemplum : On Teachers and Surrogate Fathers in Achilleid and Silvae Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	624

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter
Audience: Academics, Libraries, Institutes
Pages
- Front matter: 27
- Main content: 634
Keywords: Latin Literature; Roman comedy; Roman rhetoric; Women

eBook

Published: March 29, 2011
ISBN: 9783110229349

Hardcover

Published: March 17, 2011
ISBN: 9783110229332