Roman Readings: Roman response to Greek literature from Plautus to Statius and Quintilian (Beiträge zur Altertumskunde Book 277)

This volume presents closely connected articles by Elaine Fantham, which deal with Roman responses to Greek literature on three major subjects: the history and criticism of Latin poetry and rhetoric, women in Roman life and dramatic poetry and the poetic representation of children in relation to their mothers and teachers. The volume opens with papers on Roman comedy: Menaechmi , Trinummus , Hautontimorumenos , papers on women of the demimonde in Truculentus and Eunuchus , Cistellaria and Poenulus . The second part deals with rhetoric, including the subject of imitation as a stylistic feature, the study of performance comparing oratory and comedy and of declamation. Papers on Ovid's Fasti include a study of failed rape-scenes and papers concerned with women's cults. The last part (Senecan tragedy, Lucan, Statius) focuses on Lucan's Civil War and his treatment of Caesar as well as Statius' Thebaid and Achilleid . Content 5 Introduction 7 I Comedy and Sexuality 29 1. Act 4 of the Menaechmi: Plautus and His Original 31 2. The Madman and the Doctor 43 3. Philemon’s Thesauros as a Dramatization of Peripatetic Ethics 60 4. Heautontimoroumenos and Adelphoe : A Study of Fatherhood in Terence and Menander 79 5. Sex, Status and Survival in Hellenistic Athens: A Study of Women in New Comedy 107 6. Stuprum: Public Attitudes and Penalties for Sexual Offences in Republican Rome 143 7a. Domina-tricks, or How to Construct a Good Whore from a Bad One 172 7b. Women of the Demi-Monde and Sisterly Solidarity in the Cistellaria 185 7c. Maidens in Other-Land, or Broads Abroad: Plautus’ Poenulae 204 8. Terence and the Familiarization of Comedy 223 9. Roman Experience of Menander in the Late Republic and Early Empire 243 10. Mime: The Missing Link in Roman Literary History 256 II Rhetoric and Literary culture 269 11. Imitation and Evolution: The Discussion of Rhetorical Imitation in Cicero De oratore 2.87–97 and Some Related Problems in Ciceronian Theory 271 12. Imitation and Decline: Rhetorical Theory and Practice in the First Century AD 293 13. Orator and/et Actor 313 14. Disowning and Dysfunction in the Declamatory Family 330 15. Quintilian on the Uses and Methods of Declamation 348 16. The Concept of Nature and Human Nature in Quintilian’s Psychology and Theory of Instruction 359 17. The Synchronistic Chapter of Gellius (N.A. 17.21) and Some Aspects of Roman Chronology and Cultural History Between 60 and 50 BCE 371 III Ovid’s Narrative Poem, the Fasti 385 18. Sexual Comedy in Ovid’s Fasti : Sources and Motivation 387 19. The role of Evander in Ovid’s Fasti 421 20. Ceres, Liber and Flora: Georgic and Anti-Georgic Elements in Ovid’s Fasti 437 21. The Fasti as a Source for Women’s Participation in Roman Cult 458 IV Passion and Civil War in Roman Tragedy and Epic: Seneca, Lucan and Statius 483 22. Andromache’s Child in Euripides and Seneca 485 23. Statius’ Achilles, and His Trojan Model 503 24. Incest and Fratricide in Seneca’s Phoenissae 510 25. Caesar and the Mutiny: Lucan’s Reshaping of the Historical Tradition in De Bello Civili 5.237–373 530 26. Religio ... dira loci : Two Passages in Lucan De Bello Civili 3 and Their Relation to Virgil’s Rome and Latium 547 27. The Angry Poet and the Angry Gods: Problems of Theodicy in Lucan’s Epic of Defeat 563 28. Discordia fratrum : Aspects of Lucan’s Conception of Civil War 587 29. Statius’ Thebaid and the Genesis of Hatred 605 30. The Perils of Prophecy: Statius’ Amphiaraus and His Literary Antecedents 635 31. Chironis exemplum : On Teachers and Surrogate Fathers in Achilleid and Silvae 652

This volume presents closely connected articles by Elaine Fantham, which deal with Roman responses to Greek literature on three major subjects: the history and criticism of Latin poetry and rhetoric, women in Roman life and dramatic poetry and the poetic representation of children in relation to their mothers and teachers. The volume opens with papers on Roman comedy: Menaechmi, Trinummus, Hautontimorumenos, papers on women of the demimonde in Truculentus and Eunuchus, Cistellaria and Poenulus. The second part deals with rhetoric, including the subject of imitation as a stylistic feature, the study of performance comparing oratory and comedy and of declamation. Papers on Ovid's Fasti include a study of failed rape-scenes and papers concerned with women's cults. The last part (Senecan tragedy, Lucan, Statius) focuses on Lucan's Civil War and his treatment of Caesar as well as Statius' Thebaid and Achilleid.

This volume presents closely connected articles by Elaine Fantham which deal with Roman responses to Greek literature on three major subjects: the history and criticism of Latin poetry and rhetoric, women in Roman life and dramatic poetry and the poetic representation of children in relation to their mothers and teachers. The volume discusses among others texts by Plautus, Terence, Cicero, Quintilian, Gellius and Ovid