From its flamboyant beginning in the second half of the third century BC, through the late republic and into the early empire, Roman tragedy was at the center of the city's cultural and political life. Anthony J. Boyle's landmark introduction is the first detailed cultural and theatrical history of this major literary form. Boyle not only plots the history of Roman tragic techniques and conventions of generic formation and change, of the debt of Rome to Greece and one text to another, but in addition traces the birth, development, and death of Roman tragedy within the context of the city's…mehr
From its flamboyant beginning in the second half of the third century BC, through the late republic and into the early empire, Roman tragedy was at the center of the city's cultural and political life. Anthony J. Boyle's landmark introduction is the first detailed cultural and theatrical history of this major literary form. Boyle not only plots the history of Roman tragic techniques and conventions of generic formation and change, of the debt of Rome to Greece and one text to another, but in addition traces the birth, development, and death of Roman tragedy within the context of the city's evolving institutions, ideologies, and political and social practices.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
A. J. Boyle is Professor of Classics at the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, and editor of the classical literary journal, Ramus. His previous publications include: The Eclogues of Virgil, Seneca Tragicus, The Chaonian Dove, Seneca's Phaedra, The Imperial Muse, Roman Epic, Seneca's Troades, Roman Literature and Ideology, Tragic Seneca, Ovid and the Monuments. He has also co-edited, with J. P. Sullivan, Roman Poets of the Early Empire and Martial in English, with R. D. Woodard, Ovid's Fasti, and with W. J. Dominik, Flavian Rome.
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Part 1: The Birth of Roman Drama 1. Staging Rome Part 2: The Evolution of Roman Tragedy 2. Founding Fathers: The Appropriation of Greece Livius and Naevius 3. The Second Wave: Generic Confidence Ennius and Pacuvius 4. Tragic Apex: Poetic Form and Political Crisis Accius 5. Canonisation and Turmoil: The End of the Republic 6. Roma Theatrum: The Early Empire Varius , Ovid and Pomponius 7. Seneca's Tragic Theatre Part 3: The Death of Tragedy at Rome 8. Tragedy and Autocracy: The Liberty of Silence Hercules Oetaeus, Octavia and Maternus
Part 1: The Birth of Roman Drama 1. Staging Rome Part 2: The Evolution of Roman Tragedy 2. Founding Fathers: The Appropriation of Greece Livius and Naevius 3. The Second Wave: Generic Confidence Ennius and Pacuvius 4. Tragic Apex: Poetic Form and Political Crisis Accius 5. Canonisation and Turmoil: The End of the Republic 6. Roma Theatrum: The Early Empire Varius , Ovid and Pomponius 7. Seneca's Tragic Theatre Part 3: The Death of Tragedy at Rome 8. Tragedy and Autocracy: The Liberty of Silence Hercules Oetaeus, Octavia and Maternus
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