Brill's Companion to Roman Tragedy

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Introduction: Roman Tragedy at the Intersection: Reception and Response George W.M. Harrison Part I: REPUBLIC Editing Roman (Republican) Tragedy: Challenges and Possible Solutions Gesine Manuwald, University College London The Argo Killed Hippolytus: Roman Tragedy in the (Meta-)Theatre Mario Erasmo, University of Georgia Roman Tragedy -- Ciceronian Tragedy? Cicero's Influence on Our Perception of Republican Roman Tragedy Petra Schierl, University of Basel 240 BCE and all that: the Romanness of Republican tragedy Robert Cowan, University of Sydney PART II: EMPIRE The editio of Roman Tragedy Thomas D. Kohn, Wayne State University Rhetorical Tragedy: The Logic of Decalamation David Konstan, New York University Seneca on the Fall of Troy George W. M. Harrison Seneca's Thyestes and the Political Tradition in Roman Tragedy P. J. Davis, University of Tasmania PART III: INTERCHANGE WITH OTHER GENRES Epic Elements in Senecan Tragedy Annette Baertschi, Bryn Mawr College The Reception of Latin Archaic Tragedy in Ovid's Elegy Marco Filippi Roman Tragedy and Philosophy Christopher Star, Middlebury College Tragic Rome? Roman Tragedy and the Genre of Tragedy Lauren Donovan Ginsburg, University of Cincinnati Roman Tragedy and Philosophy Christopher Star, Middlebury College Theatrical Language and Philosophical Issues in Seneca's Tragedies: Cued and Unannounced Entrances (Especially Oedipus 81 and 784) Jean-Pierre Aygon, University of Tolouse Roman Tragedy through a Comic Lens Niall W. Slater, Emory University PART IV: SENECA AFTER ANTIQUITY Schlegel, Shelley and the 'Death' of Seneca Helen Slaney, Oxford University Seneca Tragicus in the twentieth century: Hugo Claus' adaptations of Oedipus and Thyestes Betine Van Zyl Smit, University of Nottingham T.S. Eliot's Seneca Gregory Staley, University of Maryland Afterword A Day at the Races Theatre: The Spectacle of Performance in the Roman Empire George W.M. Harrison