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Fabius Maximus
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Fabula Praetexta
Greco-Roman cultural exchange
Hercules Musarum
Hercules Oetaeus
historical stagecraft analysis
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Iambic Senarius
Late Republic
Latin dramatic literature
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Lucius Accius
ludi
Ludi Apollinares
Ludi Megalenses
Ludi Saeculares
Ludi Scaenici
Pliny HN.
political ideology in drama
Pompa Circensis
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Quintus Fabius Maximus
Roman Tragedy
Roman tragic genre development
Saepta Iulia
Scaenae Frons
scaenici
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Senecan Tragedy
Spolia Opima
Triumphal Fasti
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Trochaic Septenarii
Young Man
Product details
- ISBN 9780415251037
- Weight: 620g
- Dimensions: 138 x 216mm
- Publication Date: 07 Oct 2005
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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The first detailed cultural and theatrical history of a major literary form, this landmark introduction examines Roman tragedy and its place at the centre of Rome’s cultural and political life.
Analyzing the work of such names as Ennius, Pacuvius and Accius, as well as Seneca and his post-Neronian successors, Anthony J. Boyle delves into detailed discussion on every Roman tragedian whose work survives in substance today. Roman Tragedy examines:
- the history of Roman tragic techniques and conventions
- the history of generic form and change
- the debt that Rome owes to Greece, and text owes to text
- the birth, development and death of Roman tragedy in the context of the cities evolving, institutions, ideologies and political and social practices
- tragedy proper and the historical drama (fabula praetexta), which the Romans allied to tragedy.
With parallel English translations of Latin quotations, this seminal work not only provides an invaluable resource for students of theatre, Roman political history and cultural history, but it is also accessible to all interested in the social dynamics of writing, spectacle, ideology and power.
A. J. Boyle is Professor of Classics at the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, and editor of the classical literary journal, Ramus. His previous publications include: The Eclogues of Virgil, Seneca Tragicus, The Chaonian Dove, Seneca’s Phaedra, The Imperial Muse, Roman Epic, Seneca’s Troades, Roman Literature and Ideology, Tragic Seneca, Ovid and the Monuments. He has also co-edited, with J. P. Sullivan, Roman Poets of the Early Empire and Martial in English, with R. D. Woodard, Ovid’s Fasti, and with W. J. Dominik, Flavian Rome.
