Anthony J. Boyle

Roman Tragedy (eBook, PDF)

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Produktbeschreibung

Analyzing the work of every Roman tragedian whose work survived in substance, Anthony J. Boyle provides the first detailed cultural and theatrical history of Roman tragedy and its place at the centre of Rome's cultural and political life.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Mai 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781134696789
• Artikelnr.: 41309382

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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