Brill's companion to Roman tragedy /

Brill's companion to Roman tragedy /

Until the Renaissance the centrality of Roman tragedy in Western society and culture was unchallenged. Studies on Roman Republican tragedy and on Imperial Roman tragedy by the contributors have been directing the gaze of scholarship back to Roman tragedy. This volume has two goals: first, to demonst...

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Other Authors: Harrison, George W. M., 1951-

Format: eBook

Language: English
Latin

Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2015.

Series: Brill's Companions to Classical Studies.
Brill's Companions in Classical Studies Online II, ISBN: 9789004284869.

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Latin drama (Tragedy) > History and criticism.
Latin drama (Tragedy)
Criticism, interpretation, etc.

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Call Number: PA6068 .B75 2015

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Table of Contents:
  • Preliminary Material
  • Editing Roman (Republican) Tragedy: Challenges and Possible Solutions /
  • Gesine Manuwald
  • The Argo Killed Hippolytus: Roman Tragedy in the (Meta-)Theatre /
  • Mario Erasmo
  • Roman Tragedy-Ciceronian Tragedy? Cicero's Influence on Our Perception of Republican Tragedy /
  • Petra Schierl
  • 240 bce and All That: The Romanness of Republican Tragedy /
  • Robert Cowan
  • The editio of Roman Tragedy /
  • Thomas D. Kohn
  • Rhetorical Tragedy: The Logic of Declamation /
  • David Konstan
  • Seneca on the Fall of Troy /
  • George W.M. Harrison
  • Seneca's Thyestes and the Political Tradition in Roman Tragedy /
  • P.J. Davis
  • Epic Elements in Senecan Tragedy /
  • Annette M. Baertschi
  • The Reception of Latin Archaic Tragedy in Ovid's Elegy /
  • Marco Filippi
  • Tragic Rome? Roman Historical Drama and the Genre of Tragedy /
  • Lauren Donovan Ginsberg
  • Roman Tragedy and Philosophy /
  • Christopher Star
  • Theatrical Language and Philosophical Issues in Seneca's Tragedies: Cued and Unannounced Entrances (Especially Oedipus 81 and 784) /
  • Jean-Pierre Aygon
  • Roman Tragedy through a Comic Lens /
  • Niall W. Slater
  • Schlegel, Shelley and the "Death" of Seneca /
  • Helen Slaney
  • Seneca Tragicus in the Twentieth Century: Hugo Claus' Adaptations of Thyestes, Oedipus and Phaedra /
  • Betine van Zyl Smit
  • T.S. Eliot's Seneca /
  • Gregory A. Staley
  • A Day at the Races Theatre: The Spectacle of Performance in the Roman Empire /
  • George W.M. Harrison
  • Bibliography
  • General Index
  • Index of Ancient Authors and Passages.