| Author | : Dorota Dutsch |
| Publisher | : University of Wisconsin Pres |
| Total Pages | : 275 |
| Release | : 2015-04-27 |
| Genre | : Drama |
| ISBN | : 0299303144 |
About the role of women in Roman Republican plays of all genres, and about the role of gender in the influence of this on later dramatists
| Author | : Amy Richlin |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 581 |
| Release | : 2017-12-28 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 1108206980 |
Roman comedy evolved early in the war-torn 200s BCE. Troupes of lower-class and slave actors traveled through a militarized landscape full of displaced persons and the newly enslaved; together, the actors made comedy to address mixed-class, hybrid, multilingual audiences. Surveying the whole of the Plautine corpus, where slaves are central figures, and the extant fragments of early comedy, this book is grounded in the history of slavery and integrates theories of resistant speech, humor, and performance. Part I shows how actors joked about what people feared - natal alienation, beatings, sexual abuse, hard labor, hunger, poverty - and how street-theater forms confronted debt, violence, and war loss. Part II catalogues the onstage expression of what people desired: revenge, honor, free will, legal personhood, family, marriage, sex, food, free speech; a way home, through memory; and manumission, or escape - all complicated by the actors' maleness. Comedy starts with anger.
| Author | : Guy De la Bédoyère |
| Publisher | : Yale University Press |
| Total Pages | : 421 |
| Release | : 2018-01-01 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 0300230303 |
A captivating popular history that shines a light on the notorious Julio-Claudian women who forged an empire Augustus, Tiberius, Caligula, Claudius, and Nero--these are the names history associates with the early Roman Empire. Yet, not a single one of these emperors was the blood son of his predecessor. In this captivating history, a prominent scholar of the era documents the Julio-Claudian women whose bloodline, ambition, and ruthlessness made it possible for the emperors' line to continue. Eminent scholar Guy de la Bédoyère, author of Praetorian, asserts that the women behind the scenes--including Livia, Octavia, and the elder and younger Agrippina--were the true backbone of the dynasty. De la Bédoyère draws on the accounts of ancient Roman historians to revisit a familiar time from a completely fresh vantage point. Anyone who enjoys I, Claudius will be fascinated by this study of dynastic power and gender interplay in ancient Rome.
| Author | : Martin T. Dinter |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 493 |
| Release | : 2023-07-31 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1009327755 |
Explores how cultural memory theory intersects with the literature, politics, history, and archaeology of Republican and Augustan Rome.
| Author | : Matthew Dillon |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 853 |
| Release | : 2021-04-21 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1317391349 |
This textbook provides comprehensive coverage of the political, military, and social history of ancient Rome from the earliest days of the Republic to its collapse and the subsequent foundations of the empire established by Augustus prior to his death in AD 14. Interspersed through the discussion of the political history of the period are crucial chapters on all aspects of Roman culture, including women, religion, slavery and manumission, overseas conquests and their impact, and life in the city of Rome, giving students a full understanding of republican society, culture, and politics. With over 130 maps, illustrations, and photographs, The Ancient Romans is lavishly illustrated, with a particular emphasis on coins as a valuable historical resource. It also closely references the authors’ sourcebook, Ancient Rome: Social and Historical Documents from the Early Republic to the Death of Augustus, second edition, allowing students to engage with the documentary evidence and written sources in a deep and meaningful way. The Ancient Romans: History and Society from the Early Republic to the Death of Augustus is an indispensable resource for undergraduate students of the Roman Republic and its society and culture, as well as offering a comprehensive and compelling introduction for the interested reader.
| Author | : Matthew Loar |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 339 |
| Release | : 2018 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1108418422 |
An interdisciplinary exploration of Roman cultural appropriation, offering new insights into the processes through which Rome made and remade itself.
| Author | : David Christenson |
| Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 177 |
| Release | : 2019-01-10 |
| Genre | : Drama |
| ISBN | : 1350020559 |
This is the first volume dedicated to Plautus' perennially popular comedy Casina that analyses the play for a student audience and assumes no knowledge of Latin. It launches a much-needed new series of books, each discussing a comedy that survives from the ancient world. Four chapters highlight the play's historical context, themes, performance and reception, including its reflection of recent societal trends in marriage and property ownership by women after the Punic Wars, and its complex dynamics on stage. It is ideal for students, but helpful also for scholars wanting a brief introduction to the play. Casina pits a husband (Lysidamus) and wife (Cleostrata) against each other in a struggle for control of a 16-year-old slave named Casina. Cleostrata cleverly plots to frustrate the efforts of her lascivious elderly husband, staging a cross-dressing 'marriage' that culminates in his complete humiliation. The play provides rich insights into relationships within the Roman family. This volume analyses how Casina addresses such issues as women's status and property rights, the distribution of power within a Roman household, and sexual violence, all within a compellingly meta-comic framework from which Cleostrata emerges as a surprising comic hero. It also examines the play's enduring popularity and relevance.
| Author | : Giuseppe Eugenio Rallo |
| Publisher | : Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht |
| Total Pages | : 289 |
| Release | : 2024-01-22 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 3949189971 |
In this monograph, the author embarks on a captivating journey to shed fresh light on the togata, a mid-Republican theatrical genre which survives only in fragments. The book seeks to answer pressing questions surrounding the togata's significance in identity construction during the middle Republic from a literary and cultural perspective. Delving deep into the fragmentary textual remains of the togata, the book explores how the Roman elite fashioned their identity. The author challenges the notion of monolithic identity construction, and explores the diverse forms of identity within the togata, offering a new perspective on the subject. This study thus positions the togata as a vital source for discerning the characteristics and beliefs by which the Romans distinguished themselves and their culture from others. By examining how Romans perceived themselves, their ideas about different social groups, and their literary and cultural ties to earlier traditions, this book aims to transform our understanding of the togata's role in Roman drama.
| Author | : Basil Dufallo |
| Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
| Total Pages | : 329 |
| Release | : 2021 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 0197571786 |
Double vision : Plautus's Menaechmi and Rome's nascent empire -- Wayward sons and wandering Bacchic revels : Terence's Heautontimorumenos -- Wandering atoms, Roman error, and poetic tradition in Lucretius -- Catullan wanderings : traversing the empire, traversing the self -- Caesar's mistakes and Horace's errores : publicizing Octavian's authority in satires, book 1 -- Epilogue: The Aeneid's reorientations.
