Brill’s Companion to Roman Tragedy
Edited by George W. M. Harrison
Editing Romans (Republican) tragedy : challenges and possible solutions / Gesine Manuwald — Argo killed Hippolytus : Roman tragedy in the (Meta- ) theatre / Mario Erasmo — Roman trafed : Ciceronian tragedy? Cicero’s influence on our perception of republican tragedy / Petra Schierl — 240 BCE and all that : the Romanness of republican tragedy / Robert Cowan — Editio of Roman tragedy / Thomas D. Kohn — Rhetorical tragedy : the logic of declamation / David Konstan — Seneca on the fall of Troy / George W.M. Harrison — Seneca’s thystes and the political tradition in Roman tragedy / P.J. Davis — Epic elements in Senecan tragedy / Annette M. Baertschi — Reception of Latin archaic tragedy in Ovid’s elegy / Marci Filippi — Tragic Rome? Roman historical drama and the genre of tragedy / Lauren Donovan Ginsberg — Roman tragedy and philosophy / Christopher Star — Theatrical language and philosophical issues in Seneca’s tradegies : cued and unannounced entrances (especially in Oedipus 81 and 784) / Jean-Pierre Aygon — Roman tragedy through a comic lens / Niall W. Slater — Schlegel, Shelley and the “death” of Seneca / Helen Slaney — Seneca tragicus in the twentieth century : Hugo Claus’ adaptations of thyestes, Oedipus and Phaedra / Betine van Zyl Smit — T.S. Eliot’s Seneca / Gregory A. Staley — A day at the races -theatre- : the spectacle of performance in the Roman Empire / George W.M. Harrison.
Published 2015 by Brill as part of Brill’s companions in classical studies