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The Cambridge Companion to Roman Comedy provides a comprehensive critical introduction to Roman comedy and its reception through more than twenty accessible and up-to-date chapters by leading international scholars. This book defines the fundamentals of Roman comedy by examining its literary and comic technique as well as its stagecraft and music, and then traces the genre's influence through the centuries. Roman comedy has served as a model for writers as well as artists ranging from Shakespeare to Moliere and from Martin Luther to Cole Porter. Just as the Middle Ages spawned Christianised versions of Terence's comedies, in which harlots find God rather than a husband and young men become martyrs rather than never-do-well lovers, the twentieth century has also given us its take on Roman comedy with Stephen Sondheim's A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum and numerous modern versions of Plautus' Amphitryon.

Latin drama (Comedy) --- History and criticism. --- Theatrical science --- Drama --- Medieval Latin literature --- History and criticism --- Komödie. --- Latein. --- Latin drama --- Latin drama. --- Geschichte 250 v. Chr.-150 v. Chr. --- Latin drama (Comedy) - History and criticism

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Provides an authoritative overview and helpful resource for students and scholars of Roman history and Latin literature during the reign of Nero. It offers an unusual breadth and range of material, including substantial treatments of politics, administration, the imperial court, art, archaeology, literature and reception studies.

Latin literature --- Art, Roman --- Architecture, Roman --- History and criticism. --- History. --- Nero, --- Rome --- History --- Intellectual life. --- Art, Roman. --- History and criticism --- Intellectual life --- Latin literature - History and criticism --- Architecture, Roman - History --- Nero, - Emperor of Rome, - 37-68 --- Rome - History - Nero, 54-68 --- Rome - Intellectual life

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" Imperial Latin epic has seen a renaissance of scholarly interest. This book illuminates the work of the poet Lucan, a contemporary of the emperor Nero. This maverick but socially prominent poet, whom Nero commanded to commit suicide at the age of 26, left an epic poem on the civil war between Caesar and Pompey that epitomizes the exuberance and stylistic experimentation of Neronian culture. This study focuses on Lucan's epic technique and traces his influence through the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. Martin Dinter's newest volume engages with Lucan's use of body imagery, sententiae, Fama (rumor), and open-endedness throughout his civil war epic. Although Lucan's Bellum Civile is frequently decried as a fragmented as well as fragmentary epic, this study demonstrates how Lucan uses devices other than teleology and cohesive narrative structure to bind together the many parts of his epic body. Anatomizing Civil War places at center stage characteristics of Lucan's work that have so far been interpreted as excessive, or as symptoms of an overly rhetorical culture indicating a lack of substance. By demonstrating that they all contribute to Lucan's poetic technique, Martin Dinter shows how they play a fundamental role in shaping and connecting the many episodes of the Bellum Civile that constitute Lucan's epic body. This important volume will be of interest to students of classics and comparative literature as well as literary scholars. All Greek and Latin passages have been translated"--

Epic poetry, Latin --- History and criticism --- Lucan, --- Lucanus, Marcus Annaeus, --- Lukan, Mark Anneĭ, --- Lucain, --- Lucano, Marco Anneo, --- Lucanus, Marcus Annaeus --- Pypłacz, Joanna. --- Technique. --- Rome --- History --- Literature and the war. --- Lucan --- Lucano, Marco Antonio --- Lucain --- Lucano

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As a genre situated at the crossroad of rhetoric and fiction, declamatio offers the freedom to experiment with new forms of discourse. Placing the literariness of declamatio into the spotlight, this volume showcases declamation as a realm of genuine literary creation with its own theoretical underpinning, literary technique and generic conventions. Focusing on the oeuvre of (Ps)Quintilian, this volume demonstrates that these texts constitute a genre on their own, the rhetorical and literary framework of which remains not yet fully mapped. It is of interest to students and scholars of Rhetoric and Roman Literature.

Rhetoric, Ancient. --- Quintilian --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Recitations --- Rhétorique ancienne --- Récitations --- History and criticism --- Histoire et critique --- Ancient rhetoric --- Classical languages --- Greek language --- Greek rhetoric --- Latin language --- Latin rhetoric --- Rhetoric --- Quintilianus --- Marcus Fabius Quintilianus --- Quinctilian --- Quintilien --- Quintiliano, Marco Fabio --- Kvintilijan --- 昆体良 --- Quintiliano --- Quintillian --- Latin literature. --- Quintilian. --- Roman declamation. --- rhetoric.