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Decimus Laberius The Fragments 1st Edition by Costas Panayotakis ISBN 052188523X 9780521885232

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Author(s): Costas Panayotakis
ISBN(s): 9780521885232, 052188523X
Edition: 1
File Details: PDF, 2.25 MB
Year: 2010
Language: english
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ISBN 10: 052188523X

ISBN 13: 9780521885232 

Author: Costas Panayotakis

This is a newly revised, critical text of the fragments attributed to the Roman knight and mimographer Decimus Laberius, a witty and crudely satirical contemporary of Cicero and Caesar. Laberius is perhaps the most celebrated comic playwright of the late Republic, and the fragments of plays attributed to him comprise the overwhelming majority of the extant evidence for what we conventionally call ‘the literary Roman mime’. The volume also includes a survey of the characteristics and development of the Roman mime, both as a literary genre and as a type of popular theatrical entertainment, as well as a re-evaluation of the place of Laberius’ work within its historical and literary context. This is the first English translation of all the fragments, and the first detailed English commentary on them from a linguistic, metrical, and (wherever possible) theatrical perspective.

  • Provides the first English translation of and commentary on the fragments
  • Discusses the context within which each fragment is cited by grammarians and lexicographers
  • Includes an account of the origins and chronological development of mime as a genre from the third century BC to late antiquity

Table of contents:

Introduction
1. Defining the Roman mime
2. Origins and chronological development of the genre
3. Testimonia on Laberius
4. Facts and problems
5. Laberius’ language and themes
6. Laberius’ prosody
7. The history of the text of Laberius’ mimes
8. An overview of the anthologies containing Laberius’ mimes
Sigla codicum
The fragments
Text
Translation
Commentary
Appendices.

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