喜劇とローマの勃興 Comedy and the Rise of Rome

Leigh, Matthew

Oxford University Press Inc（2005/10発売）

• 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 258 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9780199290284
• DDC分類 872.0109

基本説明

New in paperback. Hardcover was published in 2004. This is a original study of the plays of the two great Roman comic playwrights Plautus and Terence in the context of political and economic change in Rome in the third and second centuries BC.

Full Description

Comedy and the Rise of Rome invites the reader to consider Roman comedy in the light of history and Roman history in the light of comedy. Plautus and Terence base their dramas on the New Comedy of fourth- and third-century BC Greece. Yet many of the themes with which they engage are peculiarly alive in the Rome of the Hannibalic war, and the conquest of Macedon. This study takes issues as diverse as the legal status of the prisoner of war, the ethics of ambush, fatherhood and command, and the clash of maritime and agrarian economies, and examines responses to them both on the comic stage and in the world at large. This is a substantially new departure in ways of thinking about Roman comedy and one that opens it up to a far wider public than has previously been the case.

Contents

1. Introduction ; 2. Plautus and Hannibal ; 3. The Captivi and the Paradoxes of Postliminium ; 4. City, Land, and Sea: New Comedy and the Discourse of Economies ; 5. Fatherhood and the Habit of Command: L. Aemilius Plautus and the Adelphoe