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The Roman audience : classical literature as social history / T.P. Wiseman.

Por: Tipo de material: TextoTextoDetalles de publicación: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2015.Descripción: xiii, 327 p. : ill. ; 25 cmISBN:
  • 9780198718352
  • 0198718357
Tema(s): Clasificación CDD:
  • 870.9 23
Clasificación LoC:
  • PA6003 .W57 2015
Contenidos:
Times, books, and preconception. The longue durée -- Paper -- Books -- Literature as a public performance -- Rome before literature : indirect evidence. Evidence from Homer -- Evidence from terracotta -- Rome and Athens -- Honouring gods -- Fragments and 'history' -- Marking the days -- Rome before literature : Dionysus and drama. Pots painted, bronze engraved -- Republican Rome -- The Roman Games -- Rome and Alexandria -- The turning point -- An enclosure with benches. Theatrum and scaena -- Plautus and the cauea -- In the forum, in the circus -- Terence and the cauea -- Curtains and steps -- Makers, singers, speakers, writers. Ennius and the Vates -- Ennius as impersonator -- Cato and Polybius -- Lucilus and Varro -- A turbulent people. The political stage -- Pompey and the theatre -- When Cicero wasn't in Rome -- Pompey's Games -- Poets and dancers -- Before the disaster -- Rethinking the Classics : 59-42 BC. Lucretius and Philodemus -- Demetrius, historians, Caesar -- Caesar and Catullus -- Catullus 61-64 -- The Greek stage in Rome -- The ides of March, and after -- Rethinking the Classics : 42-28 BC. Virgil's Eclogues -- Sallust -- Horace's Satires -- Virgil's Georgics -- Virgil's 'Epyllion' -- Livy and Horace -- The Republic restored -- Rethinking the Classics : 28 BC-AD 8. The citizens, the audience -- Horace's Epistles -- Tibullus and Propertius -- Ovid and Virgil -- Augustus and the 'secular games' -- Horace and Ovid -- Ovid's Fasti -- Under the emperors. First century poets -- First century playwrights -- Prose fiction and history -- Lucian in the theatre -- Integrating evidence -- Christians.
Resumen: Who were Roman authors writing for? Only a minority of the population was fully literate and books were very expensive, individually hand-written on imported papyrus. So does it follow that great poets and prose authors like Virgil and Livy, Ovid and Petronius, were writing only for the cultured and the privileged? It is this modern consensus that is challenged in this volume. 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 'literature' to mass public audiences. The treatment is chronological, utilizing wherever possible contemporary sources and the close reading of texts. Wiseman sees the history of Roman literature as an integral part of the social and political history of the Roman people, and draws some very unexpected inferences from the evidence that survives. In particular, he emphasizes the significance of the annual series of 'stage games' (ludi scaenici), and reveals the hitherto unexplored common ground of literature, drama, and dance. Direct, accessible, and clearly written, The Roman Audience provides a fundamental reinterpretation of Roman literature as part of the historical experience of the Roman people, making it essential reading for all Latinists and Roman historians.
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Times, books, and preconception. The longue durée -- Paper -- Books -- Literature as a public performance -- Rome before literature : indirect evidence. Evidence from Homer -- Evidence from terracotta -- Rome and Athens -- Honouring gods -- Fragments and 'history' -- Marking the days -- Rome before literature : Dionysus and drama. Pots painted, bronze engraved -- Republican Rome -- The Roman Games -- Rome and Alexandria -- The turning point -- An enclosure with benches. Theatrum and scaena -- Plautus and the cauea -- In the forum, in the circus -- Terence and the cauea -- Curtains and steps -- Makers, singers, speakers, writers. Ennius and the Vates -- Ennius as impersonator -- Cato and Polybius -- Lucilus and Varro -- A turbulent people. The political stage -- Pompey and the theatre -- When Cicero wasn't in Rome -- Pompey's Games -- Poets and dancers -- Before the disaster -- Rethinking the Classics : 59-42 BC. Lucretius and Philodemus -- Demetrius, historians, Caesar -- Caesar and Catullus -- Catullus 61-64 -- The Greek stage in Rome -- The ides of March, and after -- Rethinking the Classics : 42-28 BC. Virgil's Eclogues -- Sallust -- Horace's Satires -- Virgil's Georgics -- Virgil's 'Epyllion' -- Livy and Horace -- The Republic restored -- Rethinking the Classics : 28 BC-AD 8. The citizens, the audience -- Horace's Epistles -- Tibullus and Propertius -- Ovid and Virgil -- Augustus and the 'secular games' -- Horace and Ovid -- Ovid's Fasti -- Under the emperors. First century poets -- First century playwrights -- Prose fiction and history -- Lucian in the theatre -- Integrating evidence -- Christians.

Who were Roman authors writing for? Only a minority of the population was fully literate and books were very expensive, individually hand-written on imported papyrus. So does it follow that great poets and prose authors like Virgil and Livy, Ovid and Petronius, were writing only for the cultured and the privileged? It is this modern consensus that is challenged in this volume.

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 'literature' to mass public audiences. The treatment is chronological, utilizing wherever possible contemporary sources and the close reading of texts. Wiseman sees the history of Roman literature as an integral part of the social and political history of the Roman people, and draws some very unexpected inferences from the evidence that survives. In particular, he emphasizes the significance of the annual series of 'stage games' (ludi scaenici), and reveals the hitherto unexplored common ground of literature, drama, and dance. Direct, accessible, and clearly written, The Roman Audience provides a fundamental reinterpretation of Roman literature as part of the historical experience of the Roman people, making it essential reading for all Latinists and Roman historians.

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