The Tereus Myth in Roman Republican Drama
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Gesine Manuwald
Gesine Manuwald is Professor of Latin at University College London (UCL). Her research interests cover Roman epic, Roman drama, Roman oratory, especially the works of Cicero, as well as the reception of classical antiquity, particularly in Neo-Latin literature. She has published widely on all these areas, including editions of the fragmentary remains of the works of some of the Republican dramatists.
Abstract
This chapter examines the fragmentary Tereus tragedies of Livius Andronicus and Accius. It explains the parameters within which Roman tragedians adapted Greek tragedies for festivals organised and commissioned by magistrates from 240 BCE onwards. Potential elements of the plots of these Tereus plays and their relationship to other narratives of the myth are being discussed. The latter reception and performance history of Accius’ Tereus are also considered. This discussion provides a crucial case study on how the Tereus myth was adapted for Roman audiences.
Abstract
This chapter examines the fragmentary Tereus tragedies of Livius Andronicus and Accius. It explains the parameters within which Roman tragedians adapted Greek tragedies for festivals organised and commissioned by magistrates from 240 BCE onwards. Potential elements of the plots of these Tereus plays and their relationship to other narratives of the myth are being discussed. The latter reception and performance history of Accius’ Tereus are also considered. This discussion provides a crucial case study on how the Tereus myth was adapted for Roman audiences.
Kapitel in diesem Buch
- Frontmatter I
- Acknowledgments
- Foreword VII
- Contents IX
- Introduction 1
- (Re)assembling the Tereus Myth: Vase Painting, Memory, and the Senses 15
- Lamenting about the Wrong Crime: Homer, Sophocles and Demonising the Other 41
- Hunting Tereus: Rubens, Shakespeare, Sophocles 61
- Passion, Knowledge and Truth: Second Thoughts on Sophocles’ Tereus 77
- ζηλοτυπ[ίᾳ ......] οἰστρηθεισ̃ α: Domestic Violence and Revenge in Sophocles’ Tereus 95
- Tereus’ Illicit Penetration(s): A New Reading of Fragment 581 R 115
- The Voice of the Shuttle: The Tereus Myth in Aristophanes’ Birds 131
- Tereus in the Fifth and Fourth Century: From Paratragedy to Mythic Burlesque 153
- The Tereus Myth in Roman Republican Drama 179
- “(In)Human, All Too (In)Human”: Ovid’s Tereus and the Vulnerable Body 191
- Postface 205
- Methodological Appendix: The Orchid and the Wasp — Reading Fragments with Assemblage Theory 223
- List of Contributors 241
- General Index
- Index of Sources
Kapitel in diesem Buch
- Frontmatter I
- Acknowledgments
- Foreword VII
- Contents IX
- Introduction 1
- (Re)assembling the Tereus Myth: Vase Painting, Memory, and the Senses 15
- Lamenting about the Wrong Crime: Homer, Sophocles and Demonising the Other 41
- Hunting Tereus: Rubens, Shakespeare, Sophocles 61
- Passion, Knowledge and Truth: Second Thoughts on Sophocles’ Tereus 77
- ζηλοτυπ[ίᾳ ......] οἰστρηθεισ̃ α: Domestic Violence and Revenge in Sophocles’ Tereus 95
- Tereus’ Illicit Penetration(s): A New Reading of Fragment 581 R 115
- The Voice of the Shuttle: The Tereus Myth in Aristophanes’ Birds 131
- Tereus in the Fifth and Fourth Century: From Paratragedy to Mythic Burlesque 153
- The Tereus Myth in Roman Republican Drama 179
- “(In)Human, All Too (In)Human”: Ovid’s Tereus and the Vulnerable Body 191
- Postface 205
- Methodological Appendix: The Orchid and the Wasp — Reading Fragments with Assemblage Theory 223
- List of Contributors 241
- General Index
- Index of Sources
