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Introduction to Roman Drama

Introduction to Roman Drama. Finding a Common Language About Sexuality: Developing Discourses Across Disciplines Sponsored by The Interdisciplinary Research Group for the Study of Sexuality and Gender Wednesday, November 30 12-2pm UU W325 . From Horace’s Letter to Augustus.

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Introduction to Roman Drama

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  1. Introduction toRoman Drama

  2. Finding a Common Language About Sexuality: Developing Discourses Across Disciplines Sponsored by The Interdisciplinary Research Group for the Study of Sexuality and Gender Wednesday, November 30 12-2pm UU W325

  3. From Horace’s Letter to Augustus “Greece, now captive, took captive its wild conqueror, and introduced the arts to rural Latium.” (p. 276)Graecia captaferumuictoremcepit et artesintulitagrestiLatio. (Epistles 2.1556-7) mos maiorum“way of the ancestors” Introduction to Roman Tragedy

  4. Agenda • Frogs on Tragedy • Guide to an Ideal Type? • City and Empire • The Briefest of Surveys of the Roman World • Roman Theater, Roman Drama • Continuities, Developments • Choice Quotes • Issues of Genre • Discussion… • But Is It Tragedy? Introduction to Roman Tragedy

  5. Frogs on Tragedy Guide to an Ideal Type?

  6. Frogs on Tragedy • Style, language, situations (153 ff.) • Aeschylean elevation • Euripidean ordinariness • “Skill and good counsel” (education) • Euripidean sophistic • Aeschylean values • Aeschylus’ oil bottle joke (189 ff.) • Weighing of the lines (pp. 209 ff.) • “One I consider a master, the other I enjoy” (Dio, p. 217) • Policy advice (219 ff.) Introduction to Roman Tragedy

  7. Discussion: Valid Criteria? • should it be elevated in style? • not the style but content • but style can help – can make it relatable • education thing • a moral • aeschylean value teaching • aeschyl – symbolic emotional realism/a revealing kind play of concept • eur realism tragic? • what really happens • political decision making • no • no – but… • e.g. eum and its political-judicial focus Introduction to Roman Tragedy

  8. City and Empire The Briefest of Surveys of the Roman World

  9. Forum Romanum (reconstruction)

  10. Capitoline Wolf Augustus Ancient Italy Roman Empire

  11. Timeline Introduction to Roman Tragedy

  12. Roman Theater, Roman Drama Continuities, Developments

  13. Theater at Sabratha,N. Africa, 200s CE Satyr Play Rehearsal,Pompeii, ca. 50 CE

  14. Roman Drama: Fabula. . . Comedy Tragedy Crepidata “buskin” – i.e., Greek tragedy Praetexta “fringed toga” – i.e., Roman history play Pantomime narrative dance with chorus accompaniment • Palliata • himation – i.e., Greek – comedy • Togata • “toga” – i.e., Italian comedy • Trabeata • upper-class comedy • Mimus • popular farce ca. 240 BCE-early 100s CE Introduction to Roman Tragedy

  15. Choice Quotes Issues of Genre

  16. Crepidata… “Again Thyestes comes, / At Atreus to grabble, now again / Approaches me to rouse me from my calm. / More moil for me! A bigger bane to brew, / That I may crush and crunch his grievous soul!”(maiormihi moles, maius miscendumstmalum. Atreus, in Accius’ Atreusfrr. 163-166) Oderintdummetuant. “Let them hate, so long as they fear”(Atreus, in Accius’ Atreus fr. 168) Introduction to Roman Tragedy

  17. Praetexta… “Back to his native land, happy in life never dying”(Naevius Clastidium, performed 195 BCE?) “It was thus most favorably foretold that the Roman state would be supreme”(Seer to Tarquin, Accius Brutus fr. 38) “Tullius (Servius Tullius, early Roman king), who for the citizens had made freedom firm”(Accius Brutus fr. 40) Introduction to Roman Tragedy

  18. Discussion… But Is It Tragedy?

  19. Brill’s on Roman Tragedy “The content of Roman tragedy is not ‘tragic.’ ”

  20. Comment Introduction to Roman Tragedy

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