Catullus and Roman Comedy - Theatricality and Personal Drama in the Late Republic

Informationen zum Autor Christopher B. Polt is an Assistant Professor of Classical Studies at Boston College, Massachusetts. He has published extensively on Latin poetry of the Republic and early Empire. He was the recipient of the Linda Dykstra Distinguished Dissertation Award in the Humanities and Fine Arts at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Klappentext Argues that Catullus adapts Roman comedy to explore private ideas about love, friendship, and social rivalry. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction; 1. Through the Comic Looking-Glass; 2. The Best Medicine: Comic Cures for Love in the 1st Century BCE; 3. Heroic Badness and Catullus' Plautine Plots; 4. Naughty Girls: Comic Figures and Gendered Control in Catullus; Epilogue. The Show Goes On: From Roman Comedy to Latin Love Elegy; Bibliography.

Product details

• Authors: Christopher B Polt, Christopher B. Polt, Christopher B. (Boston College Polt, POLT CHRISTOPHER B.
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2020
• EAN: 9781108839815
• ISBN: 978-1-108-83981-5
• No. of pages: 232
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama > Poetry; Humanities, art, music > History > Antiquity; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Latin, HISTORY / Ancient / General, Social & cultural history, Theatre Studies, Literary studies: classical, early & medieval, Ancient Rome, Literary studies: poetry & poets, Social and cultural history, Ancient History, Classical history / classical civilisation, Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval, Literary studies: poetry and poets