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Record Nr.

UNISA996203971903316

Autore

Leigh Matthew

Titolo

Comedy and the rise of Rome [[electronic resource] /] / Matthew Leigh

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford, : Oxford University Press, 2004

ISBN

0-19-929028-8

1-280-90308-2

9786610903085

0-19-151480-2

1-4237-8471-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (254 p.)

Disciplina

872.01

Soggetti

Latin drama (Comedy) - History and criticism

History, Ancient, in literature

Literature and history - Rome

Rome Historiography

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 (p. [192]-202) and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; List of Abbreviations; 1. Introduction; 2. Plautus and Hannibal; 3. The Captivi and the Paradoxes of Postliminium; 4. City, Land, and Sea: New Comedy and the Discourse of Economies; 5. Fatherhood and the Habit of Command: L. Aemilius Paullus and the Adelphoe; Bibliography; Index Locorum; Index Nominum et Rerum

Sommario/riassunto

This is an original study of the plays of the two great Roman comic playwrights Plautus and Terence in the context of political and economic change in Rome in the third and second centuries BC. In contrast to the dominant trend of viewing the plays by reference to their largely lost Greek originals, the book adopts a historicist approach that concentrates on their effect on a contemporary audience. Matthew Leigh combines a close reading of individual texts with a theoretically. sophisticated approach to Roman self-construction. - ;Comedy and the Rise of Rome invites the reader to consider Roma