Decimus Laberius - The Fragments

Informationen zum Autor Costas Panayotakis is Senior Lecturer in Classics at the University of Glasgow. His books include Theatrum Arbitri. Theatrical Elements in the Satyrica of Petronius (1995) and annotated book-length translations into modern Greek of Plautus' Rudens (2004) and Terence's Adelphoe (1996) and Eunuchus (2001). He has published widely on the Roman novel and Roman drama! and is the Review Editor of the journal Ancient Narrative. Klappentext First English translation of and detailed commentary on the fragments of the important playwright Laberius. Zusammenfassung First English translation of! and detailed commentary on the fragments of Laberius! who composed mimes! a form of scripted comic drama that was political! satirical! and amusingly obscene. It was very popular in the first century BC and in late antiquity! and shaped medieval theatre and the Italian commedia dell'arte. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction; 1. Defining the Roman mime; 2. Origins and chronological development of the genre; 3. Testimonia on Laberius; 4. Facts and problems; 5. Laberius' language and themes; 6. Laberius' prosody; 7. The history of the text of Laberius' mimes; 8. An overview of the anthologies containing Laberius' mimes; Sigla codicum; The fragments; Text; Translation; Commentary; Appendices.

Product details

• Authors: Decimus Laberius, Costas Panayotakis
• Assisted by: Costas Panayotakis (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 11.02.2010
• EAN: 9780521885232
• ISBN: 978-0-521-88523-2
• Dimensions: 150 mm x 225 mm x 27 mm
• Series: Cambridge Classical Texts and
• Subjects: Education and learning > Schoolbooks, general education schools; Fiction > Narrative literature; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies