The Roman audience : classical literature as social history /

In an ambitious overview of 1000 years of history, from the formation of the city-state of Rome to the establishment of a fully Christian culture, T.P. Wiseman examines the evidence for the oral delivery of 'literature' to mass public audiences. The treatment is chronological, utilising wh...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Wiseman, T. P. (Timothy Peter) (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2015.
Edición:First edition.
Temas:
Latin literature > History and criticism.
Popular culture and literature > Rome.
Littérature latine > Histoire et critique.
Culture populaire et littérature > Rome.
LITERARY CRITICISM > General.
Latin literature
Popular culture and literature
Latinsk litteratur > historia.
Latinsk litteratur > mottagande > historia.
Litteraturreception > historia.
Rome (Empire)
Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Times, books, and preconception. The longue durée
  • Paper
  • Books
  • Literature as a public performance
  • Rome before literature : indirect evidence. Evidence from Homer
  • Evidence from terracotta
  • Rome and Athens
  • Honouring gods
  • Fragments and 'history'
  • Marking the days
  • Rome before literature : Dionysus and drama. Pots painted, bronze engraved
  • Republican Rome
  • The Roman Games
  • Rome and Alexandria
  • The turning point
  • An enclosure with benches. Theatrum and scaena
  • Plautus and the cauea
  • In the forum, in the circus
  • Terence and the cauea
  • Curtains and steps
  • Makers, singers, speakers, writers. Ennius and the Vates
  • Ennius as impersonator
  • Cato and Polybius
  • Lucilus and Varro
  • A turbulent people. The political stage
  • Pompey and the theatre
  • When Cicero wasn't in Rome
  • Pompey's Games
  • Poets and dancers
  • Before the disaster
  • Rethinking the Classics : 59-42 BC. Lucretius and Philodemus
  • Demetrius, historians, Caesar
  • Caesar and Catullus
  • Catullus 61-64
  • The Greek stage in Rome
  • The ides of March, and after
  • Rethinking the Classics : 42-28 BC. Virgil's Eclogues
  • Sallust
  • Horace's Satires
  • Virgil's Georgics
  • Virgil's 'Epyllion'
  • Livy and Horace
  • The Republic restored
  • Rethinking the Classics : 28 BC-AD 8. The citizens, the audience
  • Horace's Epistles
  • Tibullus and Propertius
  • Ovid and Virgil
  • Augustus and the 'secular games'
  • Horace and Ovid
  • Ovid's Fasti
  • Under the emperors. First century poets
  • First century playwrights
  • Prose fiction and history
  • Lucian in the theatre
  • Integrating evidence
  • Christians.

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