Comedy and the Rise of Rome

Erscheinungsjahr 2005
ISBN: 978-0-19-929028-4
Verlag: OUP Oxford

Buch, Englisch, 258 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 369 g

Comedy and the Rise of Rome invites the reader to consider Roman comedy in the light of history and Roman history in the light of comedy. Plautus and Terence base their dramas on the New Comedy of fourth- and third-century BC Greece. Yet many of the themes with which they engage are peculiarly alive in the Rome of the Hannibalic war, and the conquest of Macedon. This study takes issues as diverse as the legal status of the prisoner of war, the ethics of ambush, fatherhood and command, and the clash of maritime and agrarian economies, and examines responses to them both on the comic stage and in the world at large. This is a substantially new departure in ways of thinking about Roman comedy and one that opens it up to a far wider public than has previously been the case.

Zielgruppe

Scholars of Greek and Latin literature and comparative literature, Roman historians, theatre historians.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Leigh, Matthew

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Klassische Literaturwissenschaft

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- 1: Introduction

- 2: Plautus and Hannibal

- 3: The Captivi and the Paradoxes of Postliminium

- 4: City, Land, and Sea: New Comedy and the Discourse of Economies

- 5: Fatherhood and the Habit of Command: L. Aemilius Plautus and the Adelphoe

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Über Autor(innen)

Matthew Leigh is Fellow and Tutor in Classical Languages and Literature at St Anne's College, Oxford.