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Popular culture in the ancient world /

This book adopts a new approach to the classical world by focusing on ancient popular culture.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Grig, Lucy (Autor, Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2017.
Temas:
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: approaching popular culture in the ancient world / Lucy Grig
  • Part I. Classical Greece
  • The popular culture of the Athenian institutions: "authorized" popular culture and "unauthorized" elite culture in classical Athens / Mirko Canevaro
  • Humouring the masses: the theatre audience and highs and lows of Aristophanic comedy / James Robson
  • Part II. Rome
  • Popular public opinion in a nutshell: nicknames and non-elite political culture in the late republic / Cristina Rosillo-Lopez
  • Plebeian culture in the city of Rome, from the late republic to the early empire / Cyril Courrier
  • Pollio's paradox: popular invective and the transition to empire / Tom Hawkins
  • The music of power and the power of music: studying popular auditory culture in ancient Rome / Alexandre Vincent
  • Part III. The Roman Empire: Greece, Rome and beyond
  • The intellectual life of the Roman non-elite / Jerry Toner
  • Divination and popular culture / Victoria Jennings
  • Children's cultures in Roman Egypt / April Pudsey
  • Part IV. Late antiquity
  • Interpreting the Kalends of January in late antiquity: a case study for late antique popular culture? / Lucy Grig
  • Popular Christianity and lived religion in late antique Rome: seeing magic in the catacombs / Nicola Denzey Lewis
  • Popular theology in late antiquity / Jaclyn Maxwell
  • Communication and plebeian sociability in late antiquity: the view from North Africa in the age of Augustine / Julio Cesar Magalhaes de Oliveira.