ISBN:
9780198718352
Language:
English
Pages:
xi, 327 Seiten, 4 ungezählte Seiten Bildtafeln
,
Illustrationen
Edition:
First edition
Parallel Title:
Online-Ausg. Wiseman, T. The Roman audience
DDC:
870.9
Keywords:
Latin literature History and criticism
;
Popular culture and literature
;
Römisches Reich
;
Latein
;
Literatur
;
Publikum
;
Römisches Reich
;
Latein
;
Literatur
;
Zielgruppe
;
Rezipient
;
Geschichte
Abstract:
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
Note:
Literaturverzeichnis: Seiten [293]-313
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