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Un teatro per l’impero. Le citazioni drammatiche in Plinio il Vecchio e Svetonio
Bernhard Zimmermann in Dankbarkeit gewidmet
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Francesco Paolo Bianchi
Abstract
The paper is part of a wider research project, referred to me by Bernhard Zimmermann, on the presence of texts by Greek dramatists in authors of the imperial period. This research began in 2020 with Strabo and is currently continuing with Pliny the Elder and Suetonius. In fact, both authors represent two significant moments for the survival of Greek dramatic texts: in the first case, as a sign of their specific authority, but without any actual quotation (except perhaps a single occurrence); in the second, instead, as an effective moment of indirect textual tradition.
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Abstract
The paper is part of a wider research project, referred to me by Bernhard Zimmermann, on the presence of texts by Greek dramatists in authors of the imperial period. This research began in 2020 with Strabo and is currently continuing with Pliny the Elder and Suetonius. In fact, both authors represent two significant moments for the survival of Greek dramatic texts: in the first case, as a sign of their specific authority, but without any actual quotation (except perhaps a single occurrence); in the second, instead, as an effective moment of indirect textual tradition.
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Chapters in this book
- Frontmatter I
- Preface V
- Contents VII
- List of Illustrations XI
- Introduction XII
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Part I: Dramatic Texts: Form, Music, Narrative
- Bacchylides’ Ode 5 and Sophocles’ Trachiniae: Lyric Poetry and Tragedy 3
- On Misunderstanding Apollo: The Oracle and Its Consequences in Soph. O.R. 13
- “And They Lived Happily Ever After”? A Tentative Taxonomy of (More or Less) Happy Endings in Euripides 21
- Fantastic Beasts and How to Use Them: Animal Characters and Choruses in Old Comedy 45
- Juxtaposing and Contrasting Modes of Speech Presentation in Aristophanes’ Knights 624–690: Narrative Techniques, Performance, and Plot 81
- A ‘Metic’ Prometheus in Aristophanes’ Birds 101
- Ein neues Fragment des Komödiendichters Aristomenes 121
- “Is Your Roof Leaking Anywhere?” Euripides’ Danae Transformed Into Menander’s Samia 137
- Osservazioni sull’uso delle soluzioni anapestiche nei trimetri giambici di Filemone 147
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Part II: Theatre, Society, Perception
- The Audience in the Time of the Athenian Theatrocracy 171
- Tür, Bühnenkran, Ekkyklema: Zu Aristophanes’ Technik der Evokation des Imaginativen 199
- Remarks on the Ancient Theatre in Aegina 219
- Dikaiopolis’ Spatiotemporal Coordinates in Aristophanes’ Acharnians 235
- Spielen und Tanzen für die Demokratie. Zur politischen Funktion des Theaters in den „Fröschen“ des Aristophanes 257
- On Comedy, Football and (Once Again) the Impact of Theatre on Spectators’ Reactions 287
- Clio Smiles: Greek Comedy As and For Historiography 307
- Meditation und Panegyrik in Brixen: Joseph Reschs Pastor bonus (1748) 321
- “I Had a Little Nut-Tree” 338
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Part III: Dramatic Texts and Theatre Through the Eyes of Ancient Scholars
- Un teatro per l’impero. Le citazioni drammatiche in Plinio il Vecchio e Svetonio 347
- Julius Pollux on the Theatre (4.99–154) 371
- Taking it on Trust?: Euripides and the Epistemological Tradition 389
- Scholars on Comedians on Lyric Poets: Ar. Nub. 967 from Stesichorus to Didymus 407
- Citazioni di Eschilo negli scholia all’Iliade 431
- Where Narrative Meets Drama: argumentum as a Term for (Realistic) Fiction 439
- Poetae comici satyrographi. Euanthius’ griechische Komödiengeschichte in bikulturellem Kontext 455
- List of Contributors 473
- General Index
- Index of Passages
Chapters in this book
- Frontmatter I
- Preface V
- Contents VII
- List of Illustrations XI
- Introduction XII
-
Part I: Dramatic Texts: Form, Music, Narrative
- Bacchylides’ Ode 5 and Sophocles’ Trachiniae: Lyric Poetry and Tragedy 3
- On Misunderstanding Apollo: The Oracle and Its Consequences in Soph. O.R. 13
- “And They Lived Happily Ever After”? A Tentative Taxonomy of (More or Less) Happy Endings in Euripides 21
- Fantastic Beasts and How to Use Them: Animal Characters and Choruses in Old Comedy 45
- Juxtaposing and Contrasting Modes of Speech Presentation in Aristophanes’ Knights 624–690: Narrative Techniques, Performance, and Plot 81
- A ‘Metic’ Prometheus in Aristophanes’ Birds 101
- Ein neues Fragment des Komödiendichters Aristomenes 121
- “Is Your Roof Leaking Anywhere?” Euripides’ Danae Transformed Into Menander’s Samia 137
- Osservazioni sull’uso delle soluzioni anapestiche nei trimetri giambici di Filemone 147
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Part II: Theatre, Society, Perception
- The Audience in the Time of the Athenian Theatrocracy 171
- Tür, Bühnenkran, Ekkyklema: Zu Aristophanes’ Technik der Evokation des Imaginativen 199
- Remarks on the Ancient Theatre in Aegina 219
- Dikaiopolis’ Spatiotemporal Coordinates in Aristophanes’ Acharnians 235
- Spielen und Tanzen für die Demokratie. Zur politischen Funktion des Theaters in den „Fröschen“ des Aristophanes 257
- On Comedy, Football and (Once Again) the Impact of Theatre on Spectators’ Reactions 287
- Clio Smiles: Greek Comedy As and For Historiography 307
- Meditation und Panegyrik in Brixen: Joseph Reschs Pastor bonus (1748) 321
- “I Had a Little Nut-Tree” 338
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Part III: Dramatic Texts and Theatre Through the Eyes of Ancient Scholars
- Un teatro per l’impero. Le citazioni drammatiche in Plinio il Vecchio e Svetonio 347
- Julius Pollux on the Theatre (4.99–154) 371
- Taking it on Trust?: Euripides and the Epistemological Tradition 389
- Scholars on Comedians on Lyric Poets: Ar. Nub. 967 from Stesichorus to Didymus 407
- Citazioni di Eschilo negli scholia all’Iliade 431
- Where Narrative Meets Drama: argumentum as a Term for (Realistic) Fiction 439
- Poetae comici satyrographi. Euanthius’ griechische Komödiengeschichte in bikulturellem Kontext 455
- List of Contributors 473
- General Index
- Index of Passages
