Reading Roman Declamation - Calpurnius Flaccus (Beiträge zur Altertumskunde Book 348)

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 Calpurnius Flaccus this volume demonstrates that these texts constitute a genre on their own, the rhetorical and literary framework of which remains not yet fully mapped. Contributions from an international group of leading scholars from the field of Roman Literature and Rhetoric will explore the question of how Roman Declamation functions as a literary genre. This volume investigates the literary technique and the generic conventions of declamatio in its social, pedagocial and ethical context to determine “the poetics” of Roman Declamation. This volume is of interest to students and scholars of Rhetoric and Roman Literature. If you are interested in Roman Declamation, we also recommend the volume on the Declamations Ascribed to Quintilian by the same editors to you. Introduction : Calpurnius -- A Postmodern Author? / Martin T. Dinter And Charles Guérin -- Declamation 2.0 : Reading Calpurnius 'whole' / Jonathan E. Mannering -- Non Contenti Exemplis Saeculi Vestri : Intertextuality And The Declamatory Tradition In Calpurnius Flaccus / Lydia Spielberg -- (re)lire La Déclamation Romaine : Le Soldat De Marius Par Calpurnius Flaccus / Catherine Schneider -- Colorem Timere Peius Quam Sanguinem : Paintings, Family Strife And Heroism / Alfredo Casamento -- Problems Of Paremiography In Calpurnius Flaccus / Andrea Balbo -- Metrical And Accentual Clausulae As Evidence For The Date And Origin Of Calpurnius Flaccus / Biagio Santorelli -- The Editors Of Calpurnius Flaccus / Michael Winterbottom. Edited By Martin T. Dinter, Charles Guérin, Marcos Martinho. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. Acknowledgements 5 Table of Contents 7 Introduction: Calpurnius – a postmodern author? 9 Declamation 2.0 – Reading Calpurnius ‘Whole’ 17 Non contenti exemplis saeculi vestri: Intertextuality and the Declamatory Tradition in Calpurnius Flaccus 53 (Re)lire la déclamation romaine: le Soldat de Marius par Calpurnius Flaccus 85 Colorem timere peius quam sanguinem. Paintings, family strife and heroism 105 Problems of Paremiography in Calpurnius Flaccus 121 Metrical and accentual clausulae as evidence for the date and origin of Calpurnius Flaccus 137 The Editors of Calpurnius Flaccus 151 Bibliography 171 Subject Index 185 Index locorum 187 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 Calpurnius Flaccus into the spotlight, this volume showcases declamation as a realm of genuine literary creation with its own theoretical underpinning, literary technique and generic conventions. The volume is of interest to students and scholars of Rhetoric and Roman Literature