Comedy and the Rise of Rome

Zusatztext Students and scholars of Roman comedy will consult this book with great profit. It sheds refreshing light on the texts of Plautus and Terence ... All the Latin and Greek passages are cited in full and translated accurately. Informationen zum Autor Matthew Leigh is Fellow and Tutor in Classical Languages and Literature at St Anne's College, Oxford Zusammenfassung 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. 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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• Authors: Matthew Leigh, Matthew (Fellow and Tutor in Classical Lang Leigh, Matthew (Fellow and Tutor in Classical Languages and Literature at St Anne's College Leigh, Leigh Matthew
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.03.2003
• EAN: 9780199266760
• ISBN: 978-0-19-926676-0
• No. of pages: 256
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; European History, HISTORY / Ancient / Rome, Latin, LITERARY CRITICISM / Ancient & Classical, DRAMA / Ancient & Classical, Literary studies: classical, early & medieval, Ancient Rome, Ancient History, Ancient history: to c 500 CE, Literary studies: plays & playwrights, Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval, BCE to c 500 CE, BCE period – Protohistory, Literary studies: plays and playwrights