The Roman audience : classical literature as social history
| 1. Verfasser: |
Wiseman, T. P.
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| Ort/Verlag/Jahr: |
Oxford :
Oxford University Press,
2015.
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| Ausgabe: | First edition. |
| Umfang/Format: |
xiii, 327 pages, 4 pages of plates : illustrations (some color), 1 map ; 25 cm. |
| Schlagworte: | |
| iDAI.gazetteer: |
Imperium Romanum |
| Parallelausgabe: |
The Roman Audience: Classical Literature as Social History / Online |
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Contributor biographical information Publisher description Table of contents only |
Inhaltsangabe:
- Times, books, and preconception. The longue durée
- Paper
- Books
- Literature as a public performance
- Rome before literature : indirect evidence. Evidence from Homer
- Evidence from terracotta
- Rome and Athens
- Honouring gods
- Fragments and 'history'
- Marking the days
- Rome before literature : Dionysus and drama. Pots painted, bronze engraved
- Republican Rome
- The Roman Games
- Rome and Alexandria
- The turning point
- An enclosure with benches. Theatrum and scaena
- Plautus and the cauea
- In the forum, in the circus
- Terence and the cauea
- Curtains and steps
- Makers, singers, speakers, writers. Ennius and the Vates
- Ennius as impersonator
- Cato and Polybius
- Lucilus and Varro
- A turbulent people. The political stage
- Pompey and the theatre
- When Cicero wasn't in Rome
- Pompey's Games
- Poets and dancers
- Before the disaster
- Rethinking the Classics : 59-42 BC. Lucretius and Philodemus
- Demetrius, historians, Caesar
- Caesar and Catullus
- Catullus 61-64
- The Greek stage in Rome
- The ides of March, and after
- Rethinking the Classics : 42-28 BC. Virgil's Eclogues
- Sallust
- Horace's Satires
- Virgil's Georgics
- Virgil's 'Epyllion'
- Livy and Horace
- The Republic restored
- Rethinking the Classics : 28 BC-AD 8. The citizens, the audience
- Horace's Epistles
- Tibullus and Propertius
- Ovid and Virgil
- Augustus and the 'secular games'
- Horace and Ovid
- Ovid's Fasti
- Under the emperors. First century poets
- First century playwrights
- Prose fiction and history
- Lucian in the theatre
- Integrating evidence
- Christians.
