Kragelund

Roman Historical Drama C

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Roman Historical Drama is the first comprehensive interpretation of ancient historical drama in relation to the Octavia, revealing how the play mirrors the genre's traditions by mixing formats and stock characters from traditional tragedy with elements drawn from new developments of the Hellenistic and Roman stage.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 492
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Februar 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 157mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 930g
• ISBN-13: 9780198718291
• ISBN-10: 0198718292
• Artikelnr.: 47865580

Autorenporträt

Patrick Kragelund holds doctorates in Classics and the reception of classics from the University of Copenhagen and has been Director of the Danish National Art Library since 1998. He has published widely on Roman history, literature, drama, and epigraphy, as well as on the reception of the classics in post-renaissance art.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Figures
List of Tables
Part I: The Tradition
1: Recovering a Lost Genre
2: Republican Flourishing and Imperial Decline?
3: Genre and Its Uses
4: Accius
5: Romans Fighting Romans
6: Stages Old and New
7: Imperial praetextae
Part II: The Octavia
8: A praetexta?
9: Time and Place
10: Plot and Historical Background
11: Octavia and the People
12: Seneca and Nero
13: The Ghost, the Divorce, and the Wedding
14: What Poppaea Saw
15: The Revolt, the Fire, and the Ship of Death
16: The Time of Writing
Part III: The Afterlife
17: Tragic Pasts
Bibliography
Index locorum
Index of Persons, Subjects, and Places