1. Introduction to Roman Drama

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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 capta ferum uictorem cepit et artes intulit agresti Latio. (Epistles 2.156–7) mos maiorum “way of the ancestors” 22-Nov Introduction to Roman Tragedy 3

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? 22-Nov Introduction to Roman Tragedy 4

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.) 22-Nov Introduction to Roman Tragedy 6

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 22-Nov Introduction to Roman Tragedy 7

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

9. Forum Romanum (reconstruction)

10. Ancient ItalyRoman Empire Augustus Capitoline Wolf

11. 753-510 BCERegal period Ruled by kings. 510-27 BCERepublic Mixed constitution: oligarchic, quasi-democratic. 27 BCE-293 CEPrincipate (Early Empire) De facto monarchy (imperātor, Caesar, princeps) Timeline 22-Nov Introduction to Roman Tragedy 11

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 Palliata himation – i.e., Greek – comedy Togata “toga” – i.e., Italian comedy Trabeata upper-class comedy Mimus popular farce Tragedy Crepidata “buskin” – i.e., Greek tragedy Praetexta “fringed toga” – i.e., Roman history play Pantomime narrative dance with chorus accompaniment ca. 240 BCE-early 100s CE 22-Nov Introduction to Roman Tragedy 14

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!” (maior mihi moles, maius miscendumst malum. Atreus, in Accius’ Atreus frr. 163-166) Oderint dum metuant. “Let them hate, so long as they fear” (Atreus, in Accius’ Atreus fr. 168) 22-Nov16 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) 22-Nov Introduction to Roman Tragedy 17

18. Discussion… But Is It Tragedy?

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

20. Comment 22-Nov20 Introduction to Roman Tragedy