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Terence and the Language of Roman Comedy

By: Evangelos Karakasis

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Terence and the Language of Roman Comedy

By: Evangelos Karakasis

This book offers a comprehensive examination of the language of Roman comedy in general and that of Terence in particular. The study explores Terence's use of language to differentiate his characters and his language in relation to the language of the comic fragments of the palliata, the togata and the atellana. Linguistic categories in the Terentian corpus explored include colloquialisms, archaisms, hellenisms and idiolectal features. Terence is shown to give his old men an old-fashioned and verbose tone, while low characters are represented as using colloquial diction. An examination of Eunuchus' language shows it to be closer to the Plautine linguistic tradition. The book also provides a thorough linguistic/stylistic commentary on all the fragments of the palliata, the togata and the atellana. It shows that Terence, except in the case of his Eunuchus, consciously distances himself from the linguistic/stylistic tradition of Plautus followed by all other comic poets.

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Cambridge University Press

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113944445X

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9781139444453

T. Calpurnius Siculus

A Pastoral Poet in Neronian Rome

By: Evangelos Karakasis

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T. Calpurnius Siculus

A Pastoral Poet in Neronian Rome

By: Evangelos Karakasis

T. Calpurnius Siculus: A Pastoral Poet in Neronian Rome is the first ever detailed examination of the whole of Calpurnius' pastoral corpus in English. It aims to offer an overall picture of Calpurnius’ epigonal and generically transcending poetics and meta-poetics through a thorough comparative analysis of the generic interfaces between the bucolic host genre (as bequeathed to Siculus from Theocritus to Vergil) and various generic modes which operate in Calpurnius’ eclogues, such as epic, panegyric, elegiac, didactic/georgic. The analysis includes themes/motifs, intertexts and allusion, narrative sequences, diction and metre as well as meta-generic/meta-poetic signs, including Calpurnius' redirection and inversion of the Callimachean-neoteric poetological meta-language. The study’s interests also revolve around the ways in which Neronian ideology and imperial politics inform the pastoral narrative and often account for the formalistic change discerned as well as the manner in which Post-Classical diction functions as a targeted, self-conscious linguistic tell-tale of generic evolution. The book is intended for students or scholars working on or interested in Roman pastoral and its generic evolution as well as Neronian Literature.

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Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

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3110472694

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9783110472691

Song Exchange in Roman Pastoral

By: Evangelos Karakasis

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Song Exchange in Roman Pastoral

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Agonistic or friendly song exchange in idyllic settings forms the very heart of Roman pastoral. By examining in detail the evolution of a wide variety of literary, linguistic, stylistic, and metrical features, the present book focuses on how politics, panegyrics, elegy, heroic, and didactic poetry function as guest genres within the pastoral host genre, starting from Vergil and continuing with Calpurnius Siculus, the Einsiedeln Eclogues and Nemesianus.

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3110227061

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T. Calpurnius Siculus

A Pastoral Poet in Neronian Rome

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Song Exchange in Roman Pastoral

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Terence and the Language of Roman Comedy

Terence and the Language of Roman Comedy

T. Calpurnius Siculus

T. Calpurnius Siculus

Song Exchange in Roman Pastoral

Song Exchange in Roman Pastoral

T. Calpurnius Siculus

T. Calpurnius Siculus

Song Exchange in Roman Pastoral

Song Exchange in Roman Pastoral

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