Roman Audience - Classical Literature As Social History

Zusatztext historians can learn a lot from this big slim volume Informationen zum Autor T. P. Wiseman is Emeritus Professor of Classics and Ancient History at the University of Exeter. Klappentext In an ambitious overview of a thousand 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 Roman 'literature' to mass public audiences. Zusammenfassung In an ambitious overview of a thousand 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 Roman 'literature' to mass public audiences. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface List of Illustrations 1: Times, Books, and Preconceptions 2: Rome Before Literature: Indirect Evidence 3: Rome Before Literature: Dionysus and Drama 4: An Enclosure with Benches 5: Makers, Singers, Speakers, Writers 6: A Turbulent People 7: Rethinking the Classics: 59-42 BC 8: Rethinking the Classics: 42-28 BC 9: Rethinking the Classics: 28 BC-AD 8 10: Under the Emperors Notes Bibliography Index

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• Authors: T. P. Wiseman, T. P. (Emeritus Professor of Classics and Wiseman, T. P. (Emeritus Professor of Classics and Ancient History Wiseman, Wiseman T. P.
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 24.09.2015
• EAN: 9780198718352
• ISBN: 978-0-19-871835-2
• No. of pages: 352
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Antiquity; European History, HISTORY / Ancient / Rome, HISTORY / Europe / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Ancient & Classical, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, Literary studies: classical, early & medieval, Ancient Rome, Social and cultural history, Ancient History, Classical history / classical civilisation, Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval, BCE to c 500 CE, BCE period – Protohistory