Petronian Spectacles: The Widow of Ephesus Generically Revisited

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Preface VII
3. Table of Contents IX
4. Introduction: Roman Drama and its Contexts 1
5. Part I: Roman Comedy
6. Some Dramatic Terminology 13
7. Bacchus in Roman Drama 25
8. Speculating in Unreal Estate: Locution, Locution, Locution 43
9. The Kings of Comedy 67
10. Genre and Social Class, or Comedy and the Rhetoric of Self-aggrandisement and Self-deprecation 97
11. Sententiousness in Roman Comedy – A Moralising Reading 127
12. Plautus’ Aulularia and Popular Narrative Tradition 143
13. Plautus Undoing Himself – What is Funny and What is Plautine in Stichus and Trinummus? 167
14. Prologues between Performance and Fiction 203
15. All’s Well That Ends Well? Old Fools, Morality, and Epilogues in Plautus 215
16. Plautus’ Curculio and the Case of the Pious Pimp 231
17. The Young Man in Plautus’ Asinaria 127–248 253
18. Civic Reassignment of Space in the Truculentus 263
19. Nothing to do with Fides? The Speaker of the Prologue and the Reproduction of Citizenship in Plautus’ Casina 275
20. Symmetrical Recognitions in Plautus’ Epidicus 289
21. Basket Case: Material Girl and Animate Object in Plautus’s Cistellaria 299
22. Elements of Pantomime in Plautus’ Comedies 317
23. Part II: Roman Tragedy
24. History and Philosophy in Roman Republican Drama and Beyond 331
25. Music in Roman Tragedy 345
26. Seneca, Horace and the Poetics of Transgression 363
27. Tragic Translatio: Epistle 107 and Senecan Tragedy 379
28. Seneca’s Agamemnon: Mycenaean Becoming Trojan 395
29. When Reason Surrenders its Authority: Thyestes’ Approach to Atreus’ Palace 411
30. History as Intertext and Intertext as History in the Octavia 417
31. Part III: Reception of Comedy and Tragedy
32. Terence and Satire 435
33. How to Do Things with Words – and Pictures: Text and Image in the Parisian Terence 453
34. Is the Story of Susanna and the Elders Based on a Greek New Comedy? 471
35. Terence’s Comedies in the Terentius Christianus: The Case of Naaman 489
36. Petronian Spectacles: The Widow of Ephesus Generically Revisited 505
37. Furor and Kin(g)ship in Seneca’s Thyestes and Valerius Flaccus’ Argonautica (1.700–850) 533
38. Noises Off: The Thyestes Theme in Tacitus’ Dialogus 555
39. Seneca’s Ted Hughes 573
40. Seneca’s Thyestes: Three Female Translators into English 585
41. Notes on Contributors 601
42. General Index 607
43. Index locorum 617