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Record Nr.

UNINA9910822671703321

Autore

Fantham Elaine

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : De Gruyter, 2011

ISBN

1-283-16530-9

9786613165305

3-11-022934-X

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (664 p.)

Collana

Beiträge zur Altertumskunde, , 1616-0452 ; ; Bd. 277

Classificazione

FT 13000

Disciplina

870.9

Soggetti

Latin literature - History and criticism

Rhetoric, Ancient

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

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.