A Companion to Terence

Herausgegeben von Augoustakis, Antony; Traill, Ariana

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Produktbeschreibung

A comprehensive collection of essays by leading scholars in the field that address, in a single volume, several key issues in interpreting Terence offering a detailed study of Terence's plays and situating them in their socio-historical context, as well as documenting their reception through to present day

The first comprehensive collection of essays on Terence in English, by leading scholars in the field
Covers a range of topics, including both traditional and modern concerns of gender, race, and reception
Features a wide-ranging but interconnected series of essays that offer new perspectives in interpreting Terence
Includes an introduction discussing the life of Terence, its impact on subsequent studies of the poet, and the question of his ethnicity

Produktdetails

• Blackwell Companions to the Ancient World .
• Verlag: Wiley & Sons
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 1A405198750
• 1. Auflage
• Seitenzahl: 560
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. Juni 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 254mm x 177mm x 35mm
• Gewicht: 1000g
• ISBN-13: 9781405198752
• ISBN-10: 1405198753
• Artikelnr.: 37245983

Autorenporträt

Antony Augoustakis is Associate Professor of Classics at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He is the author of Motherhood and the Other: Fashioning Female Power in Flavian Epic (2010) and Plautus' Mercator (2009). Ariana Traill is Associate Professor of Classics at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She is the author of Women and the Comic Plot in Menander (2008) and numerous articles on Greek and Roman comedy and its reception.

Inhaltsangabe

Notes on Contributors viii Acknowledgments xiii Introduction 1 Antony
Augoustakis and Ariana Traill PART I Terence and Ancient Comedy 15 1.
Terence and Greek New Comedy 17 Peter Brown 2. Terence and the Traditions
of Roman New Comedy 33 George Fredric Franko 3. Terence and Non-Comic
Intertexts 52 Alison Sharrock 4. Fabula Stataria: Language and Humor in
Terence 69 Heather Vincent 5. Meter and Music 89 Timothy J. Moore PART II
Contexts and Themes 111 6. Terence and the Scipionic Grex 113 Daniel P.
Hanchey 7. opera in bello, in otio, in negotio: Terence and Rome in the
160s bce 132 John H. Starks, Jr. 8. Religious Ritual and Family Dynamics in
Terence 156 T.H.M. Gellar-Goad 9. Gender and Sexuality in Terence 175
Sharon L. James 10. Family and Household in the Comedies of Terence 195
Z.M. Packman 11. Masters and Slaves 211 Evangelos Karakasis PART III The
Plays 223 12. Andria 225 Robert Germany 13. Heauton Timorumenos 243 Eckard
Lef èvre 14. Eunuchus 262 David M. Christenson 15. Phormio 281 Stavros
Frangoulidis 16. Hecyra 295 Ortwin Knorr 17. Adelphoe 318 Ariana Traill
PART IV Reception 341 18. History of the Text and Scholia 343 Benjamin
Victor 19. Terence in Latin Literature from the Second Century bce to the
Second Century ce 363 Roman Müller 20. Terence in Late Antiquity 380 Andrew
Cain 21. Hrotsvit of Gandersheim Christianizes Terence 397 Antony
Augoustakis 22. ''Thou shalt present me as an eunuch to him'': Terence in
Early Modern England 410 Martine van Elk 23. mulier inopia et cognatorum
neglegentia coacta: Thornton Wilder's Tragic Take on The Woman of Andros
429 Mathias Hanses 24. Terence in Translation 446 John Barsby 25.
Performing Terence (and Hrotsvit) Now 466 Mary-Kay Gamel References 482
General Index 515 Index Locorum 523