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

• Autore: Leigh Matthew
• Pubblicazione: Oxford, : Oxford University Press, 2004
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (254 p.)
• Disciplina: 872.01
• Soggetto topico: Latin drama (Comedy) - History and criticism; History, Ancient, in literature; Literature and history - Rome
• Soggetto geografico: Rome Historiography
• 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
• Titolo autorizzato: Comedy and the rise of Rome
• ISBN: 0-19-929028-8; 1-280-90308-2; 9786610903085; 0-19-151480-2; 1-4237-8471-5
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 996203971903316
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. di Salerno