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Pantomime Games in the Dionysiaca and Vergil’s Song of Silenus

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Later Greek Epic and the Latin Literary Tradition
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Abstract

Contrary to epic tradition, the funeral games celebrated in Dionysiaca 19 in commemoration of King Staphylus of Lycia are dominated by a contest on pantomime dancing - the first and only detailed account of a pantomime contest in classical literature. The pantomime contest (D. 19.136-286) between Silenus and Maron is informed by the long tradition of pantomime dancing in the Roman empire. Pantomime was very popular in Italy throughout the imperial centuries, and its appeal spread widely in the eastern part of the empire as well, including Egypt. What is more, pantomime in the literary tradition was associated with poetics in Vergil’s Eclogue 6 where it revolves around Silenus. In the pantomime contest of Dionysiaca 19 Nonnus discusses the poetics of epic succession by engaging with earlier tradition, in particular with accounts charged with poetic associations in Latin literature.

Abstract

Contrary to epic tradition, the funeral games celebrated in Dionysiaca 19 in commemoration of King Staphylus of Lycia are dominated by a contest on pantomime dancing - the first and only detailed account of a pantomime contest in classical literature. The pantomime contest (D. 19.136-286) between Silenus and Maron is informed by the long tradition of pantomime dancing in the Roman empire. Pantomime was very popular in Italy throughout the imperial centuries, and its appeal spread widely in the eastern part of the empire as well, including Egypt. What is more, pantomime in the literary tradition was associated with poetics in Vergil’s Eclogue 6 where it revolves around Silenus. In the pantomime contest of Dionysiaca 19 Nonnus discusses the poetics of epic succession by engaging with earlier tradition, in particular with accounts charged with poetic associations in Latin literature.

Kapitel in diesem Buch

  1. Frontmatter I
  2. Contents V
  3. Abbreviations VII
  4. Preface: Later Greek Epic and the Latin Literary Tradition 1
  5. Latin and Later Greek Literature: Reflections on Different Approaches 7
  6. The Poet as Sailor: Claudian between the Greek and Latin Traditions 31
  7. Sinon and Laocoon in Quintus of Smyrna’s Posthomerica: A Rewriting and De-Romanisation of Vergil’s Aeneid? 55
  8. Odysseus the Roman: Imperial Temporality and the Posthomerica 75
  9. Triphiodorus and the Aeneid: From Poetics to Ideology 101
  10. ἄντρα περικλυτά: Revisiting Mythical Places in the Orphic Argonautica 123
  11. Pantomime Games in the Dionysiaca and Vergil’s Song of Silenus 151
  12. Nonnus’ Phaethon, Ovid, and Flavian Intertextuality 179
  13. List of Contributors 207
  14. General Index 209
  15. Index Locorum 211
https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110791907-008

Kapitel in diesem Buch

  1. Frontmatter I
  2. Contents V
  3. Abbreviations VII
  4. Preface: Later Greek Epic and the Latin Literary Tradition 1
  5. Latin and Later Greek Literature: Reflections on Different Approaches 7
  6. The Poet as Sailor: Claudian between the Greek and Latin Traditions 31
  7. Sinon and Laocoon in Quintus of Smyrna’s Posthomerica: A Rewriting and De-Romanisation of Vergil’s Aeneid? 55
  8. Odysseus the Roman: Imperial Temporality and the Posthomerica 75
  9. Triphiodorus and the Aeneid: From Poetics to Ideology 101
  10. ἄντρα περικλυτά: Revisiting Mythical Places in the Orphic Argonautica 123
  11. Pantomime Games in the Dionysiaca and Vergil’s Song of Silenus 151
  12. Nonnus’ Phaethon, Ovid, and Flavian Intertextuality 179
  13. List of Contributors 207
  14. General Index 209
  15. Index Locorum 211
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