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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.
| Call Number: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Cambridge :
Cambridge University Press,
2017.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- 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.