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Linguistic Interaction in Roman Comedy
This book presents a comprehensive account of features of Latin that emerge from dialogue: commands and requests, command softeners and strengtheners, statement hedges, interruptions, attention-getters, greetings and closings. In analyzing these features, Peter Barrios-Lech employs a quantitative method and draws on all the data from Roman comedy and the fragments of Latin drama. In the first three parts, on commands and requests, particles, attention-getters and interruptions, the driving questions are firstly - what leads the speaker to choose one form over another? And secondly - how do the playwrights use these features to characterize on the linguistic level? Part IV analyzes dialogues among equals and slave speech, and employs data-driven analyses to show how speakers enact roles and construct relationships with each other through conversation. The book will be important to all scholars of Latin, and especially to scholars of Roman drama.
Plautus: Casina
This is a new text, commentary, and translation of Plautus' most challenging and uproarious farce, the Casina. Equipped with an ample introduction, it is aimed both at those with and without Latin; both at students and at scholars new to Plautus. For those who wish to appreciate the Latin, the commentary provides generous help, and the text has been thoroughly marked up to facilitate reciting the original meters. For Latin-less readers, the new translation aims to capture the verve and kaleidoscopic variety of Plautus' Latin. Finally, both introduction and commentary incorporate the insights of the recent boom in research on Roman Comedy. The introduction situates the text in its historical context, presents recent interpretive trends, and offers a window into the comedy's importance in the history of Western comedy.
Linguistic Interaction in Roman Comedy
A comprehensive account of features of Latin that emerge from dialogue, drawing on the data from Roman comedy and drama.
A Companion to Plautus
An important addition to contemporary scholarship on Plautus and Plautine comedy, provides new essays and fresh insights from leading scholars A Companion to Plautus is a collection of original essays on the celebrated Old Latin period playwright. A brilliant comic poet, Plautus moved beyond writing Latin versions of Greek plays to create a uniquely Roman cultural experience worthy of contemporary scholarship. Contributions by a team of international scholars explore the theatrical background of Roman comedy, the theory and practice of Plautus’ dramatic composition, the relation of Plautus’ works to Roman social history, and his influence on later dramatists through the centuries. Respon...
Politeness in Ancient Greek and Latin
The first major study of politeness in Ancient Greece and Rome, from effusive greetings to aggressive humour and friendly banter.
Plautus' Erudite Comedy
Alexandrianism was among the trends that defined the formation of Roman literature across genres since the early decades of Roman literary history. This volume introduces a collection of original essays that contribute to a developing appreciation of the comedy of Plautus, the leading representative of Roman comedy, as a multi-faceted text that engages in a creative dialogue with various contemporary cultural and literary developments. The studies here, both individually and as parts of a longer, interactive discussion, offer a comprehensive examination of the first complete expression of the intellectual reception of Greek and Hellenistic literature and culture in Rome, and, at the same tim...
Early Latin
This is the most detailed and comprehensive study to date of early Latin language, literary and non-literary, featuring twenty-nine chapters by an international team of scholars. 'Early Latin' is interpreted liberally as extending from the period of early inscriptions through to the first quarter of the first century BC. Classical Latin features significantly in the volume, although in a restricted sense. In the classical period there were writers who imitated the Latin of an earlier age, and there were also interpreters of early Latin. Later authors and views on early Latin language are also examined as some of these are relevant to the establishment of the text of earlier writers. A major aim of the book is to define linguistic features of different literary genres, and to address problems such as the limits of periodisation and the definition of the very concept of 'early Latin'.
Pragmatic Approaches to Drama
This volume collects papers on pragmatic perspectives on ancient theatre. Scholars working on literature, linguistics, theatre will find interesting insights on verbal and non-verbal uses of language in ancient Greek and Roman Drama. Comedies and tragedies spanning from the 5th century B.C.E. to the 1st century C.E. are investigated in terms of im/politeness, theory of mind, interpersonal pragmatics, body language, to name some of the approaches which afford new interpretations of difficult textual passages or shed new light into nuances of characterisation, or possibilities of performance. Words, silence, gestures, do things, all the more so in dramatic dialogues on stage.
Aristophanes' Wasps
Aristophanes' Wasps (422 B.C.) is an entertaining comedy that plunges us into the life of a family in classical Athens, while treating themes that readers of any time and place can appreciate. A father and son argue about politics, household servants try to please their master, a disruptive gang of the father's friends decide to intervene, a dog becomes a lightning-rod for his antics in the kitchen, attempts are made at reform and reconciliation, and it all ends with a drinking party that goes disastrously wrong. The father, Philocleon, and his friends, the chorus of wasp-like old men for whom the play is named, are some of the great creations of comic drama. The characters of the Wasps make...
Aulularia sive Querolus
Dieser Begleitband zur neuen Teubnerausgabe der spätantiken Prosakomödie Aulularia sive Querolus vereint Prolegomena und einen sowohl textkritischen als auch sprachlich-inhaltlichen Kommentar. Damit liegt erstmals ein ausführlicher moderner Kommentar zu diesem Stück vor. Die Prolegomena sind in zwei Teile untergliedert. Im ersten Teil wird das Stück in seine Entstehungskontexte sowie sein geistes- und literaturgeschichtliches Umfeld eingeordnet. Dabei wird dargelegt, dass der Querolus entgegen der Lehrmeinung christlich geprägt ist. Zudem werden die sprachlichen, stilistischen und rhythmischen Eigenheiten des Texts herausgearbeitet. Der zweite Teil umfasst überlieferungsgeschichtliche Untersuchungen, auf denen das neue, zweispaltige Stemma aufbaut, das der Edition zugrunde liegt. Der ausführliche Kommentar erhellt sprachliche und inhaltliche Besonderheiten und Schwierigkeiten. Zudem begründet er die editorischen Entscheidungen und die Textkonstitution der Teubneriana.
