The Roman audience [electronic resource] : classical literature as social history / T.P. Wiseman.
Wiseman, T. P. (Timothy Peter), author.
2016
PA6003 .W57 2016eb
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Title The Roman audience [electronic resource] : classical literature as social history / T.P. Wiseman.
Author Wiseman, T. P. (Timothy Peter), author.
Edition First edition.
ISBN 9780191787645 (electronic book)
DOI https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198718352
Published Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2016.
Language English
Description 1 online resource (xiii, 327 pages, 4 pages of plates) : illustrations, maps.
Other Standard Identifiers 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198718352 doi
Call Number PA6003 .W57 2016eb
Dewey Decimal Classification 870.9
Summary In an ambitious overview of 1000 years of history, from the formation of the city-state of Rome to the establishment of a fully Christian culture, T.P. Wiseman examines the evidence for the oral delivery of 'literature' to mass public audiences. The treatment is chronological, utilising wherever possible contemporary sources and the close reading of texts. Presenting the history of Roman literature as an integral part of the social and political history of the Roman people, he draws some unexpected inferences from the evidence that survives. In particular, he emphasises the significance of the annual series of 'stage games', and reveals the hitherto unexplored common ground of literature, drama and dance.
Note In an ambitious overview of 1000 years of history, from the formation of the city-state of Rome to the establishment of a fully Christian culture, T.P. Wiseman examines the evidence for the oral delivery of 'literature' to mass public audiences. The treatment is chronological, utilising wherever possible contemporary sources and the close reading of texts. Presenting the history of Roman literature as an integral part of the social and political history of the Roman people, he draws some unexpected inferences from the evidence that survives. In particular, he emphasises the significance of the annual series of 'stage games', and reveals the hitherto unexplored common ground of literature, drama and dance.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
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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.

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