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Terence’s Eunuchus
Pub Date : 2022-01-12 DOI: 10.1093/obo/9780195389661-0373
Suetonius (Vita Terenti 3) asserts that Eunuchus was Terence’s most commercially successful play. While we cannot confirm this claim, Eunuchus (as all Terence’s plays) enjoyed continuous readership after performances of it ceased in antiquity, was often cited by ancient writers and grammarians, and received a commentary in the 4th century ce. While Eunuchus is not without its critics—some have found fault with its dramatic structure and the ethics of its finale, to say nothing of its unique (in New Comedy) foregrounding of violent rape—it has generated enormous interest in both medieval and modern cultures, including numerous commentaries and translations. Eunuch’s unusual deception-plot, that is, the impulsive Chaerea’s costuming as a eunuch to sexually overpower Pamphila, no doubt accounts for much of the attention the play has attracted. For scholars of gender and sexuality, Eunuch invites interrogation of Roman attitudes toward sexual violence, norms of masculinity, and constructions of gender, as well as of the sexually ambiguous figure of the eunuch in this dramatic and cultural context. Eunuch’s prologue has also captivated scholars of Roman comedy and literary history more generally, as it so clearly articulates recurring concerns of Terence’s characteristically metadramatic prologues: Terence’s adaptation of both his Greek and Latin sources, including charges of “contamination” and “plagiarism,” and the broader challenges of finding novelty within circumscribed comic tradition (for Terence’s “anxiety of influence” see esp. Eun. 35–43). Some scholarship has been conducted on linguistic differentiation among Eunuch’s characters, and it is hoped that burgeoning sociolinguistic work on Plautine Latin will continue to be extended to Terence. Recent criticism has largely focused on aspects of Eunuch’s performance, both on the micro-level of costumes, stage movements, and musicality, and more broadly on the play’s pervasive metatheatricality.
Suetonius (Vita Terenti 3)断言,宦官是特伦斯在商业上最成功的戏剧。虽然我们无法证实这一说法,但《太监》(就像特伦斯的所有戏剧一样)在古代停止演出后仍有持续的读者,经常被古代作家和语法学家引用,并在公元4世纪收到评论。尽管《宦官》并非没有批评者——有些人认为它的戏剧结构和结局的道德规范有问题,更不用说它在新喜剧中独特的暴力强奸前景了——但它在中世纪和现代文化中都引起了巨大的兴趣,包括许多评论和翻译。《太监》中不寻常的欺骗情节,也就是冲动的柴莉亚打扮成太监,对潘菲拉进行性控制,无疑是该剧吸引眼球的主要原因。对于研究性别和性行为的学者来说,《太监》引发了对罗马人对性暴力的态度、男子气概的规范、性别的建构,以及在这种戏剧和文化背景下太监的性模糊形象的质疑。宦子的序言也更广泛地吸引了罗马喜剧和文学史的学者,因为它清楚地表达了特伦斯具有特色的元戏剧序言的反复出现的担忧:特伦斯对他的希腊和拉丁来源的改编,包括“污染”和“剽窃”的指控,以及在受限制的喜剧传统中寻找新奇的更广泛的挑战(特伦斯的“影响力焦虑”见尤指第35-43页)。一些学者对太监人物的语言差异进行了研究,希望蓬勃发展的普劳丁拉丁语社会语言学研究能够继续延伸到特伦斯。最近的批评主要集中在《太监》的表演方面,既有服装、舞台动作和音乐的微观层面,也有更广泛的戏剧的元戏剧性。
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Ancient Mediterranean Baths and Bathing 古地中海浴场和沐浴
Pub Date : 2021-10-27 DOI: 10.1093/obo/9780195389661-0370
Studies of ancient Mediterranean baths and bathing are now so ubiquitous that it is easily forgotten that these subjects received relatively little scholarly attention before the late 20th century, with the exception of the great imperial thermae of Rome that have fascinated architects and antiquarians since the Renaissance. Bathing establishments were among the most common and the most important types of civic architecture in Rome and its empire. They range in size from intimate to monumental, and they were an integral part of lives and daily routines. Their appearance across the Mediterranean world and beyond, from the British Isles to the Euphrates, speaks to the expanse of Roman rule and cultural influence. Roman-style baths and communal bathing for relaxation and sensory pleasure, as well as hygiene, became trademarks of Romanitas in the provinces. Baths were often among the first structures built after Roman conquest, often established and funded by members of the local elite. Only the wealthiest families had their own domestic bath complexes, so public baths were places where men and women of all ages and all levels of society spent time washing, relaxing, recreating, and sometimes crossing paths. Men and woman were sometimes segregated by architecture or scheduling, but probably often bathed together. Informal meetings also occurred, between friends and lovers, and with prostitutes. Roman thermae often included spaces designed for varied activities, from lecture halls and libraries to exercise grounds and gardens. They were places for politics and business gatherings. More modest in size than their Roman successors, Greek public baths (balaneia) have also come into their own in recent scholarship. Greek bath building peaked in the Hellenistic period in Greece, Sicily, and South Italy, and especially in Egypt. Particularly interesting are studies of the evolution of bathing practices from the more personal Greek experience in relatively small complexes, through Hellenistic and Roman Republican technological advances, to social bathing in the great thermae of the high Roman Empire. Publications represent a wide variety of approaches, focusing on literary sources, archaeological excavations, architectural form, technology, and more. New questions are offering new insights into ancient baths and bathing even as field surveys and excavations continue to add to the corpus.
对古代地中海浴场和沐浴的研究现在是如此普遍,以至于很容易被遗忘,在20世纪后期之前,这些学科受到的学术关注相对较少,除了罗马伟大的帝国温泉,它自文艺复兴以来一直吸引着建筑师和古物学家。沐浴场所是罗马及其帝国最常见和最重要的城市建筑类型之一。它们的大小不等,从亲密的到不朽的,它们是生活和日常生活中不可或缺的一部分。从不列颠群岛到幼发拉底河,它们在地中海及其他地区的出现,说明了罗马统治和文化影响的广泛性。罗马风格的浴场和公共浴场,用于放松和感官愉悦,以及卫生,成为各省罗马人的标志。浴场通常是罗马征服后最早建造的建筑之一,通常由当地精英建立和资助。只有最富有的家庭才有自己的家庭浴室,所以公共浴室是所有年龄和社会各个阶层的男人和女人花时间洗澡、放松、娱乐的地方,有时还会穿过小路。男人和女人有时因建筑或日程安排而分开,但可能经常一起洗澡。朋友和情人之间以及妓女之间的非正式会面也时有发生。罗马温泉通常包括为各种活动设计的空间,从演讲厅和图书馆到运动场和花园。它们是政治和商业集会的场所。希腊公共浴场(balaneia)的规模比罗马的继承者要小,在最近的学术研究中也取得了自己的成就。希腊浴室建筑在希腊化时期达到顶峰,在希腊、西西里岛和意大利南部,尤其是在埃及。特别有趣的是对沐浴实践演变的研究,从希腊人在相对较小的建筑群中的个人体验,到希腊化和罗马共和时期的技术进步,再到罗马帝国鼎盛时期的大温泉中的社会沐浴。出版物代表了各种各样的方法,重点是文学来源、考古发掘、建筑形式、技术等等。随着实地调查和发掘工作的不断增加,新的问题为古代浴场和沐浴提供了新的见解。
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Plautus’s Curculio
Pub Date : 2021-08-25 DOI: 10.1093/obo/9780195389661-0366
Plautus’s shortest play Curculio has not drawn the same attention from scholars, authors, and performers over the centuries as his Menaechmi, Amphitruo, Pseudolus, and Miles Gloriosus, yet the play offers a set of dramatis personae that encompasses all the main stock characters of Roman comedy (with the exception of mother and father figures), a plot that ties together three common Plautine storylines (erotic, deception, and recognition), and an unparalleled metatheatrical monologue from a truly unique character, the Choragus. The young citizen man Phaedromus desires Planesium, enslaved to the sex-trafficker Cappadox, who is asking for more money than Phaedromus has. Phaedromus’s parasite Curculio, sent on a journey to Caria in search of a loan, comes back instead with a ring stolen from the soldier Therapontigonus, who has contracted with Cappadox to purchase Planesium. Using the ring to forge documents and an eyepatch disguise, Curculio (under the pseudonym Summanus) tricks both Cappadox and Lyco the banker into handing Planesium over. Therapontigonus arrives, enraged at being tricked, but soon learns that Planesium, who has recognized Therapontigonus’s stolen ring on Curculio’s finger, is his long-lost sister. They are reunited, Planesium is acknowledged as a citizen, the two of them agree to a marriage between Planesium and Phaedromus, and Cappadox is physically abused and forced to repay Therapontigonus. The title character influences Terence’s Phormio and Catullus’s erotic persona, as well as the stock character Ligurio in Italian commedia dell’arte; meanwhile, the recognition and reunion of the soldier Therapontigonus with Planesium, his sister and erstwhile object of erotic desire, inspires similar plot twists in Molière, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, and more. The play’s concision and nonstop action have made it a popular choice for student productions, particularly at North American colleges and universities. This article comprehensively catalogues scholarship on Curculio, beginning with overarching works (general studies, editions, the manuscript tradition, commentaries, translations) and then moving into the major topics of scholarly interest in the play: Greek original and Plautine adaptation; plot, staging, and music; themes and characters; social and historical contexts; humor and language; and reception and performance history. For other surveys of Plautine scholarship, see the separate Oxford Bibliographies articles Plautus, Plautus’s Amphitruo, and Plautus’s Miles Gloriosus. See also the separate Oxford Bibliographies articles on the main surviving playwright of Greek New Comedy, Menander of Athens, and Plautus’s Roman comedic contemporaries Terence and Caecilius Statius.
几个世纪以来,普劳图斯最短的戏剧《Curculio》并没有像他的《Menaechmi》、《Amphitruo》、《Pseudolus》和《Miles Gloriosus》那样引起学者、作家和演员的关注,但这部戏剧提供了一套戏剧人物角色,涵盖了罗马喜剧的所有主要角色(除了母亲和父亲的角色),一个将普劳图斯的三个常见故事情节(色情、欺骗和承认)联系在一起的情节,以及无与伦比的超戏剧独白,来自一个真正独特的角色,合唱团。年轻的公民费德鲁莫斯渴望Planesium,被性贩子卡帕多克斯奴役,卡帕多克斯要求比费德鲁莫斯拥有的更多的钱。费德鲁莫斯的寄生虫库库利奥被派往卡里亚寻求贷款,却带着一枚从士兵塞波隆提戈纳斯那里偷来的戒指回来了,塞波隆提戈纳斯与卡帕多克斯签订了购买Planesium的合同。库库利奥(化名萨马努斯)用戒指伪造文件,戴上眼罩伪装,骗过卡帕多克斯和银行家莱科,让他们交出了Planesium。塞波隆提戈诺斯赶到了,他对被欺骗感到愤怒,但很快就知道,认出塞波隆提戈诺斯在库库利奥手指上偷来的戒指的普莱纳西姆是他失散已久的妹妹。他们团聚了,Planesium被承认为公民,他们两人同意Planesium和Phaedromus结婚,Cappadox受到身体虐待,被迫偿还Therapontigonus。标题角色影响了特伦斯的法尔米奥和卡图卢斯的情色角色,以及意大利喜剧《艺术》中的人物利古里奥;与此同时,士兵波波提哥诺斯与他的妹妹、昔日的情爱对象普莱西姆重逢,激发了《moli》、《去论坛的路上发生的一件趣事》等小说中类似的情节转折。该剧的简洁和不间断的动作使其成为学生制作的热门选择,特别是在北美的学院和大学。本文对库库利奥的学术研究进行了全面的分类,从总体作品(一般研究,版本,手稿传统,评论,翻译)开始,然后进入戏剧学术兴趣的主要话题:希腊原创和普劳丁改编;情节、舞台和音乐;主题和人物;社会和历史背景;幽默和语言;以及接待和表演历史。关于普劳图斯奖学金的其他调查,请参见单独的牛津参考书目文章普劳图斯,普劳图斯的阿菲特罗和普劳图斯的迈尔斯荣耀。参见牛津参考书目中关于希腊新喜剧的主要幸存剧作家,雅典的米南德,以及普劳图斯同时代的罗马喜剧作家特伦斯和卡西留斯·斯塔提乌斯的单独文章。
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Ancient Thebes 古底比斯
Pub Date : 2021-06-23 DOI: 10.1093/obo/9780195389661-0362
The principal city of Boiotia, Thebes exerted influence and at times control over the great expanse of Central Greece, from the South Euboean Gulf at east to the Gulf of Corinth at west. Lying north of the massif of Parnes (and its most famous spur, Cithaeron), Thebes bestrides the western reaches of a low mountain range running east toward Tanagra and governs access to the flatlands along the Asopus river to the south, to the plains stretching north and east toward Helicon and the Copais (the Teneric plain), and to the level expanses extending west toward the sea south of the Messapion-Ptoon line (the Aonian plain). Thebes itself sits on a dense cluster of hills. One such hill, the Cadmea, is the age-old acropolis. The river Dirce runs just west of the Cadmea. Two rivers lie east: the Strophia (or Chrysoroas), which runs immediately next to the Cadmea, and, further east, the Ismenos. Thebes has a grand mythic history. Founded by the Phoenician Cadmus (in one tradition) while in search of his sister, Europa, the city is the birthplace of two sons of Zeus, Dionysus and Heracles, and an imposing mortal line which includes Oedipus. Impressive Bronze Age remains have long lent intrigue to these traditions. Thebes had regional and extra-regional aspirations by the 6th century, with mythic, epigraphic, and historical references indicating rivalry with neighboring Boiotian communities as well as Athens and Thessaly. Famous for medizing during the Persian Wars, Thebes likely acted within a Boiotian collective by the middle of the 5th century. Thebans joined the Peloponnesian cause in the Peloponnesian War but thereafter came into running conflict with Sparta. The city expelled an imposed Spartan garrison in 379, and the leaders Epaminondas and Pelopidas brought forth a period of expansive Theban hegemony after Leuctra (371). Following the shared defeat at Chaeronea in 338—where Thebes’ renowned Sacred Band came to ruin—the city endured a Macedonian garrison. Destroyed by Alexander in 335 for rebellion, Thebes was rebuilt in the time of Cassander (316). The city functioned as a member of a Boiotian collective subsequently, but Sulla stripped its territory in 86 for Thebes’ backing of Mithridates. Thebes sank to relative insignificance thereafter and did not rise to prominence again until Byzantine times. A prosperous international city after Justinian and into the Middle Ages, Thebes’ importance receded under Ottoman domination.
底比斯是波奥提亚的主要城市,它影响并有时控制着希腊中部的广大地区,从东至南欧博湾,西至科林斯湾。底比斯位于帕涅斯山脉(及其最著名的山脚西泰隆)的北部,横跨向东延伸至塔纳格拉的低山脉的西端,控制着沿阿索普斯河向南的平原,向北和向东延伸至Helicon和Copais(特涅尔平原)的平原,以及向西延伸至Messapion-Ptoon线以南的海洋(阿奥尼亚平原)的平坦地带。底比斯本身坐落在密集的山丘上。其中一座山,凯美亚山,就是古老的卫城。迪尔斯河就流在卡德米亚河的西边。东边有两条河:一条是紧挨着卡美亚河的斯特罗菲亚河,另一条是更东边的伊斯梅诺斯河。底比斯有着辉煌的神话历史。这个城市是由腓尼基人卡德摩斯(在一个传说中)在寻找他的妹妹欧罗巴时建立的,它是宙斯的两个儿子狄俄尼索斯和赫拉克勒斯的出生地,还有一个雄伟的凡人家族,其中包括俄狄浦斯。令人印象深刻的青铜时代遗迹长期以来为这些传统增添了神秘色彩。到了6世纪,底比斯已经有了区域性和域外的抱负,神话、铭文和历史文献都表明,底比斯与邻近的波奥瓦社区以及雅典和色萨利存在竞争。底比斯因在波斯战争中充当调停者而闻名,到5世纪中叶,底比斯很可能是布瓦奥集体的一部分。底比斯在伯罗奔尼撒战争中加入了伯罗奔尼撒的事业,但此后与斯巴达发生了持续的冲突。公元379年,底比斯驱逐了斯巴达的守军。在琉克特拉(公元371年)之后,底比斯的领袖伊巴密农达和佩洛皮达斯带来了一段扩张的霸权时期。在338年的Chaeronea战役中,底比斯著名的神圣军团惨遭毁灭,之后,这座城市忍受着马其顿的驻军。底比斯于335年因叛乱被亚历山大摧毁,于卡桑德(316)时期重建。这座城市后来成为了波奥提亚集体的一员,但苏拉在86年因为底比斯对米特拉达梯的支持而剥夺了它的领土。底比斯从此逐渐衰落,直到拜占庭时代才再次崛起。在查士丁尼之后进入中世纪,底比斯是一个繁荣的国际城市,但在奥斯曼帝国的统治下,底比斯的重要性逐渐减弱。
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Roman Roads and Transport 罗马的道路和交通
Pub Date : 2021-02-24 DOI: 10.1093/obo/9780195389661-0358
Tønnes Bekker-Nielsen
The total length of the Roman Empire’s highway network is not known, but can be estimated at well above 100,000 kilometers. Some roads were surveyed and built from scratch, others created by upgrading pre-existing routes. The bibliography on the subject is correspondingly vast, running into thousands of titles. Most published studies are focused on the remains of the roads as preserved in the landscape, taking a morphological approach and identifying or dating roads on the basis of their alignment and construction. Some more recent studies, however, take a contextual approach (“dots on the map”), identifying and dating ancient roads from their relation to known and datable features such as settlement sites, necropoleis, or forts. Within ancient history generally, focus has shifted from the construction and administration of roads or their use for military campaigns to a wider consideration of their place in the economic life of the Roman world. Unlike sea transport, which exploited the winds, ancient land transport was at all times dependent on muscle power, human or animal, and hence more costly than sea transport. On the other hand, transit times by land were more predictable and communications could be maintained throughout the year, whereas ships mostly remained in port during the winter months. The highway network was also fundamental to the maintenance of official communication through the so-called cursus publicus or vehiculatio, with stations along the major overland routes. In some areas, road transport was complemented by shipping on navigable rivers or—rarely—canals.
罗马帝国公路网的总长度尚不清楚,但估计在10万公里以上。一些道路是经过调查和从零开始修建的,另一些则是通过升级已有的道路而建成的。这一主题的参考书目也相应庞大,多达数千种。大多数已发表的研究都集中在保存在景观中的道路遗迹上,采用形态学方法,根据道路的路线和结构确定道路的年代。然而,最近的一些研究采用了一种情境方法(“地图上的点”),根据古代道路与已知和可确定日期的特征(如定居点、墓地或堡垒)的关系来识别和确定古代道路的年代。一般来说,在古代历史中,重点已经从道路的建设和管理或它们用于军事行动转移到更广泛地考虑它们在罗马世界经济生活中的地位。与利用风的海上运输不同,古代陆上运输一直依赖于人力或动物的肌肉力量,因此比海上运输成本更高。另一方面,陆路运输时间更容易预测,通信可以全年保持,而船只在冬季主要留在港口。公路网也是维持官方通讯的基础,通过所谓的公共交通或交通工具,沿着主要的陆路路线设有车站。在一些地区,公路运输由通航河流或极少运河上的航运补充。
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Death 死亡
Pub Date : 2020-10-28 DOI: 10.1093/obo/9780195389661-0355
P. Chrystal
Life and death is a vast subject, potentially taking in a massive chunk of the published output of Greco-Roman scholarship since the time of Homer and his contemporaries. So, some serious restriction of extent is required: this article will focus on life and death and how the two interrelate throughout the Greek and Roman periods. “Death” will cover eschatology, funeral and burial rites, funerary epigraphy, as well as different forms of death such as suicide, death in war and in the arena, death through disease, and murder. Poisonings, toxicology, osteoarchaeology, and forensics are also covered. “Life” will take in life where death impinges on it in whatever form. As with any culture and civilization, life and death were inextricably linked in ancient Greece and Rome: how one led one’s life was dictated to a large degree by belief in and expectations of a further life in the afterworld; similarly, the kind of afterlife one might expect was thought to be predicated on how one conducted oneself during life. The Greek tragedies underscore the absolute necessity for proper burial rites in Greek society while the Romans too had strict rules relating to funerary protocol and ritual. Epigraphy takes in military inscriptions and the formulaic praise, particularly of wives, husbands, children and mothers. We will see much on necromancy, communion with the dead, the underworld journey, underworld topography, and denizens of Hades and Tartarus such as Charon. The section on Postmortem Studies takes in works on memories of the departed, mourning, commemoration of the dead, the Parentalia, dining with the deceased, death pollution, corpse abuse, and cremations that went badly wrong. War death covers military and civilian death in battle and siege, disasters, and atrocities while suicide gives us Lucretia, euthanasia, and depictions of suicide in art. Finally, from murder, toxicology, and forensics we find studies on the effects of lead poisoning, the patricide of Verginia, three infamous women poisoners, and amateur toxicologists—Mithridates and Cleopatra. The citations range from Homer to late Roman, from the Greek polis to the Roman Empire at its widest extent and to its fall; they take in all available types of evidence as found in journal articles, books, visual arts, epigraphy, archaeology, architecture, science, and online sources.
生与死是一个宏大的主题,可能占据了自荷马及其同时代人以来希腊罗马学术著作出版的大量内容。因此,需要对范围进行一些严格的限制:本文将关注生命和死亡,以及这两者在整个希腊和罗马时期是如何相互关联的。“死亡”将涵盖末世论、丧葬仪式、墓葬铭文,以及不同形式的死亡,如自杀、战争和竞技场死亡、疾病死亡和谋杀。中毒,毒理学,骨考古学和法医学也包括在内。当死亡以任何形式冲击它时"生命"将会接纳生命与任何文化和文明一样,在古希腊和古罗马,生与死有着千丝万缕的联系:一个人的生活方式在很大程度上取决于对来世生活的信仰和期望;同样,人们所期望的来世也被认为是基于一个人生前的行为。希腊悲剧强调了希腊社会中适当的丧葬仪式的绝对必要性,而罗马人也有严格的丧葬礼仪和仪式规则。铭文包括军事铭文和公式化的赞美,尤其是对妻子、丈夫、孩子和母亲的赞美。我们将看到很多关于巫术,与死者交流,地下世界的旅程,地下世界的地形,以及冥府和塔塔罗斯的居民,如卡戎。“尸体研究”部分包括对死者的记忆、哀悼、纪念死者、父母、与死者共进晚餐、死亡污染、虐待尸体和严重错误的火葬。战争死亡包括军队和平民在战斗、围攻、灾难和暴行中的死亡,而自杀给了我们卢克丽霞、安乐死和艺术中对自杀的描绘。最后,从谋杀、毒理学和法医中,我们发现了铅中毒的影响研究,弗吉尼亚弑父案,三个臭名昭著的女性毒理学家,以及业余毒理学家——米特拉达梯和克利奥帕特拉。引用的范围从荷马到罗马晚期,从希腊城邦到最广泛的罗马帝国及其衰落;他们收集了所有可用的证据,包括期刊文章、书籍、视觉艺术、碑文、考古学、建筑、科学和在线资源。
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Cicero's Rhetorical Works 西塞罗的修辞作品
Pub Date : 2020-10-28 DOI: 10.1093/obo/9780195389661-0357
J. M. May
Marcus Tullius Cicero (106–43 bce) rose to prominence in the state during the final decades of the Roman Republic. Blessed with a goodly measure of natural ability, an extraordinary amount of self-discipline, and a remarkably broad and deep education not only in rhetoric but also in philosophy and the other noble arts, Cicero employed his oratorical skill to establish himself in the courts and on the Rostra as Rome’s finest orator. He was elected to the state’s chief political offices at the youngest possible age, and during the final months of his consulship (63 bce), he foiled a plot by L. Sergius Catilina to overthrow the government. His decisive action in that affair was the source of great glory and pride in having saved the state, but also of great pain and heartache, for some five years later he was forced into exile for his part in the summary execution of Catilinarian co-conspirators who were also Roman citizens. Following his return to Rome, he found himself at loggerheads with members of the so-called “First Triumvirate,” a situation that resulted for him in something like a forced retirement from political activity. A decade later, in the wake of Julius Caesar’s victory in the civil war and subsequent dictatorship, Cicero was placed in a similar situation. During both these occasions (namely, the mid-50s and mid-40s bce), he channeled his energies in the direction of his other great love, i.e., contemplation, study, and writing. Remarkably, these two periods saw him produce nearly a score of treatises, including his most important and influential rhetorical writings, wherein he enunciated his deeply-held conviction that eloquent speech (coupled with reason) was a chief civilizing factor in human society—a glue that binds and builds well-ordered communities when employed responsibly by its most expert practitioners. Following the assassination of Caesar and the emergence of Marcus Antonius as a force who appeared to be aiming to secure his own dictatorial powers, Cicero once again took up the mantle of the Republic, hoping for its restoration. He opposed Antonius and his actions by writing and delivering to the Senate and people a series of speeches known as the Philippics. But on the brink of success, young Caesar Octavianus allied himself with Antonius, and Cicero’s name found a prominent place on the list of those proscribed: his head and hands, severed by Antonius’s henchmen, were gruesomely displayed on the speaker’s platform in the Roman forum. See the separate Oxford Bibliographies article in Classics Cicero for a general and more comprehensive bibliography of Cicero and his other works. Other Oxford Bibliographies articles that may be of interest include Greek Rhetoric, Latin Rhetoric, and Rhetoric.
马库斯·图利乌斯·西塞罗(公元前106-43年)在罗马共和国的最后几十年里声名鹊起。西塞罗天赋超群,自律能力极强,不仅在修辞学方面,而且在哲学和其他高尚的艺术方面都接受了广泛而深入的教育,他运用自己的演讲技巧,在宫廷和斗兽场上确立了自己罗马最优秀的演说家的地位。他在最年轻的时候被选为国家的主要政治官员,在他担任执政官的最后几个月(公元前63年),他挫败了L. Sergius Catilina推翻政府的阴谋。他在这件事上的果断行动是拯救国家的荣耀和骄傲的根源,但也带来了巨大的痛苦和心痛,大约五年后,他被迫流亡,因为他参与了对同样是罗马公民的卡提利纳帮凶的草率处决。在他回到罗马之后,他发现自己与所谓的“前三头同盟”的成员发生了争执,这种情况导致他被迫退出政治活动。十年后,朱利叶斯·凯撒在内战中取得胜利,随后实行独裁统治,西塞罗也陷入了类似的境地。在这两个时期(即公元前50年代中期和40年代中期),他把精力投入到他的另一个爱好上,即沉思、学习和写作。值得注意的是,在这两个时期,他发表了近20篇论文,包括他最重要和最有影响力的修辞著作,在这些著作中,他阐明了他深信不疑的信念,即雄辩的演讲(加上理性)是人类社会的主要文明因素——一种粘合剂,当最专业的实践者负责任地使用它时,它会将社会联系在一起,并建立良好的秩序。恺撒被刺杀,马库斯·安东尼斯(Marcus Antonius)崛起,似乎意在确保自己的独裁权力,西塞罗再次接过共和国的衣帽,希望恢复共和国。他通过向元老院和人民发表一系列被称为腓立比的演讲来反对安东尼乌斯和他的行为。但就在胜利的边缘,年轻的凯撒屋大维亚努斯与安东尼乌斯结盟,西塞罗的名字在被禁止的名单上占据了显著的位置:他的头和手被安东尼乌斯的追随者砍下,被可怕地展示在罗马广场的讲台上。参见单独的牛津参考书目文章在经典西塞罗一般和更全面的书目西塞罗和他的其他作品。其他牛津参考书目文章,可能是感兴趣的包括希腊修辞学,拉丁修辞学和修辞学。
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Death and Burial in the Roman Age 罗马时代的死亡与埋葬
Pub Date : 2020-09-24 DOI: 10.1093/obo/9780195389661-0356
John Pearce
Evidence for death and burial in the Roman age extends across all materials surviving from Antiquity, literary texts, the remnants of memorials to the dead, inscriptions, images, and burials themselves, both the remains of the dead and the objects used in the rituals for burying them. This diversity of source material and the relevance of funerary evidence to so many aspects of ancient life continue to fragment scholarship. The allocation of epitaphs, architecture, images, artifacts, and the remains of the dead to separate disciplines has compounded their decontextualization from funerary ensembles. The subject area has also been divided by different approaches depending on the region and period concerned: the dominant interests in late Roman burials, for example, have been the investigation of Christian conversion or migration into the Roman world. However, some unifying trends can be observed. In recent decades attention has shifted to exploring the mass of burial evidence for what it reveals of Roman society, its social structures, demographic characteristics, and so on. This has been given extra impetus by the results of archaeological fieldwork, creating a sample of well-excavated burials and human skeletal remains which now rivals the numbers of inscribed memorials. The optimism of reading off social structures or demographic characteristics from funerary evidence has been replaced with an emphasis on exploring how groups and individuals negotiated their relationships to their communities through rituals and monuments. This essay presents Roman behavior in relation to death, bereavement, and commemoration, mainly using material evidence in its broadest sense. It is necessarily selective, giving examples of key syntheses and datasets and of developing approaches. In some cases (especially monuments) it gives some greater weighting to English language publications, especially where they provide gateways to non-Anglophone scholarship. After opening sections on general works on death and burial and on the Roman funeral and mourning, the essay discusses in turn monuments, funerary rituals as reconstructed from archaeological evidence, and late Roman burial practice, including its relationship to conversion to Christianity. It concludes with case studies where different forms of evidence, architectural, artistic, artifactual, osteological, etc. combine to produce a richer view of monuments and processes, in specific cultural and social contexts across the empire. Study of human remains from a demographic or paleopathological perspective is outside the scope of this essay, though some bibliographic pointers are given in the first section (Overviews of Death and Burial). Recent work on osteological and biomolecular characteristics of the skeleton is however noted where its integration with the evidence for rituals has significantly enriched the study of identities in death.
罗马时代死亡和埋葬的证据涵盖了所有从古代幸存下来的材料,文学文本,死者纪念的残余物,铭文,图像和埋葬本身,死者遗体和埋葬仪式中使用的物品。来源材料的多样性以及丧葬证据与古代生活的许多方面的相关性继续使学术研究支离破碎。墓志铭、建筑、图像、文物和死者遗体的分配,使他们从丧葬合奏中脱离语境。根据所涉及的地区和时期,主题领域也被不同的方法所划分:例如,对罗马晚期墓葬的主要兴趣是对基督教皈依或移民到罗马世界的调查。然而,可以观察到一些统一的趋势。近几十年来,人们的注意力已经转移到探索大量的埋葬证据,以揭示罗马社会、社会结构、人口特征等。考古现场工作的结果为这一观点提供了额外的动力,这些工作创造了一个精心挖掘的墓葬和人类骨骼遗骸样本,现在可以与铭刻的纪念碑数量相媲美。从丧葬证据中解读社会结构或人口特征的乐观主义已经被强调探索群体和个人如何通过仪式和纪念碑与社区协商他们的关系所取代。这篇文章介绍了罗马人与死亡、丧亲之痛和纪念有关的行为,主要使用最广泛意义上的物证。它必须是选择性的,给出关键综合和数据集以及发展方法的例子。在某些情况下(尤其是纪念碑),它给予英语出版物更大的权重,特别是在它们提供非英语国家奖学金的门户时。在关于死亡和埋葬的一般作品以及罗马葬礼和哀悼的开篇部分之后,本文依次讨论了纪念碑,从考古证据重建的丧葬仪式,以及罗马晚期的丧葬习俗,包括其与皈依基督教的关系。它以案例研究结束,在这些案例研究中,不同形式的证据,建筑,艺术,人工制品,骨学等结合起来,在整个帝国的特定文化和社会背景下,产生了更丰富的纪念碑和过程视图。从人口统计学或古病理学的角度研究人类遗骸不在本文的范围之内,尽管在第一部分(死亡与埋葬概述)中给出了一些参考书目。然而,最近对骨骼的骨学和生物分子特征的研究表明,它与仪式证据的结合极大地丰富了对死亡身份的研究。
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Greek New Comic Fragments 希腊新漫画片段
Pub Date : 2020-09-24 DOI: 10.1093/obo/9780195389661-0354
S. Nervegna
The expression “Greek New Comedy” traditionally indicates a specific phase of Attic Comedy dated to the late 4th and 3rd centuries bce, although New Comedies continued to be written well into the Imperial period. New Comedies bring onto the stage fictional characters, domestic situations, and love-stories, and their plots tend to repeat common elements. Ancient sources identify over sixty New Comedy poets and consistently name three dramatists as the main representatives of this genre: Menander, Diphilus, and Philemon. Menander was born in 342/1 and died around 290 bce; the biographies of his two rivals are largely obscure but Philemon was reportedly older than Menander while Diphilus was one of Menander’s contemporaries. Unlike Menander, they were both born outside Athens. Two or three more authors were added to the list of the best New Comedy poets: Philippides, Apollodorus of Carystus, and Posidippus. New Comedy poets were generally more prolific than their 5th-century colleagues, but their plays are largely lost. Menander is the only author whose comedies survive thanks to a series of lucky papyrus findings in the 20th century: we have one complete comedy, Dyskolos, and substantial portions of several more. The dramas written by other New Comedy poets survive only in short fragments preserved by a few papyri and, most often, by ancient authors largely interested in linguistic peculiarities or moralizing excerpts. The standard collection of the fragments (F) of Greek Comedy and the testimonia (T) for Greek comic poets is Kassel and Austin 1983–2001 (Poetae Comici Graeci, cited under Editions and Translations), which is generally abbreviated as “K-A.” While surviving fragments are typically not very informative, an important source for our knowledge of Greek New Comedies is Roman Comedy. Roman poets adapted select plays into Latin, often disclosing the titles, the authors, and other details of their Greek models. Roman comedies give us indirect access to their now lost Greek originals.
“希腊新喜剧”一词传统上表示阿提卡喜剧的一个特定阶段,可以追溯到公元前4世纪末和3世纪,尽管新喜剧在帝国时期继续写作。新的喜剧把虚构的人物、家庭情景和爱情故事搬上舞台,它们的情节往往重复常见的元素。古代资料确定了60多位新喜剧诗人,并一致认为有三位剧作家是这一流派的主要代表:米南德、狄非罗斯和菲利门。米南德生于公元前342年,死于公元前290年左右;他的两个对手的传记大多不为人知,但据报道菲利门比米南德年长,而狄非罗斯是米南德同时代的人之一。与米南德不同的是,他们都出生在雅典城外。新喜剧的最佳诗人名单上又增加了两三个作家:腓力庇得斯、卡里斯托斯的阿波洛多鲁斯和波西底普斯。新喜剧诗人通常比他们5世纪的同行更多产,但他们的戏剧大部分都失传了。米南德是唯一一位喜剧得以幸存的作家,他的喜剧多亏了20世纪一系列幸运的莎草纸上的发现:我们有一部完整的喜剧《迪斯科洛斯》(Dyskolos),以及其他几部喜剧的大部分内容。其他新喜剧诗人写的戏剧只在一些纸莎草纸上保存了一些简短的片段,大多数情况下是由对语言特点或道德说教节选感兴趣的古代作家写的。希腊喜剧片段(F)和希腊喜剧诗人证言(T)的标准合集是卡塞尔和奥斯汀1983-2001 (Poetae Comici Graeci,引自版本和翻译),通常缩写为“K-A”。虽然幸存的片段通常不是很有用,但我们了解希腊新喜剧的一个重要来源是罗马喜剧。罗马诗人将精选的戏剧改编成拉丁语,经常透露剧名、作者和其他希腊模型的细节。罗马喜剧为我们提供了一个间接的途径,让我们了解到它们现在已经失传的希腊原著。
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Amicitia
Pub Date : 2020-08-26 DOI: 10.1093/obo/9780195389661-0353
Christian Rollinger
The question of what constitutes friendship—a true friend—is one that has been asked in many societies and historically contingent periods, and from a number of different vantage points. Just as the Romans interrogated themselves as to the precise nature of their amicitiae, so, too, have ancient historians and classicists investigated the vast field of that relationship. They have asked widely divergent questions: What was the philosophical or emotional basis of Roman friendship? How did Roman authors, from the comedies of the middle republic to later imperial works, discuss friendship? What role did it play in society, in economic or political contexts? How was the traditional notion of amicitia changed by the changing circumstances first of the imperial period and, more profoundly, by the advent of Christendom? Ancient historians and classicists have been attempting to answer these questions for a long time. Scholarly discourse can be broadly divided into two large fields, the first of which was (and is) concerned with the development of Roman philosophical thought on amicitia and, particularly, with Cicero’s famous treatise Laelius de amicitia. As the study of Roman amicitiae is rendered exceedingly complicated by the intentionally vague semantics of Roman terminology, which employs amicitia for a variety of social relationships, not all of which a majority of people would now term “friendships,” little consensus has been reached beyond strictly philological questions. In addition to these philological and philosophical enquiries, however, a second field emerged in the early 1980s, which emphasized the importance of Roman institutions of personal relationships for the study of Roman history, particularly in the field of politics. This perspective has been enlarged in recent years by a renewed interest in the role of amicitia in, e.g., the Roman economy and in the communicative and affiliative strategies that were essential in creating and maintaining amicitiae. Additionally, there appeared what might be called a “democratization” of friendship studies, with amicitia no longer seen as an exclusive phenomenon between elite Roman males. The advent of Christianity (but also of new philosophical schools) in Late Antiquity was accompanied by a distinct rethinking of amicitia from a Neoplatonic and Christian perspective. Schramm 2013 and White 1992 (both cited under General Overviews) offer exemplary approaches and further references, but the changing interpretations of amicitia in the later Roman world make this a distinctly different subject and consequently this period is excluded from this bibliography.
是什么构成了友谊——真正的朋友——这个问题在许多社会和历史上偶然发生的时期都被提出过,而且是从许多不同的角度提出的。就像罗马人追问他们亲族的确切性质一样,古代历史学家和古典学家也研究了这一关系的广阔领域。他们提出了各种不同的问题:罗马友谊的哲学或情感基础是什么?从共和中期的喜剧到后来的帝国作品,罗马作家是如何讨论友谊的?它在社会、经济或政治环境中扮演了什么角色?传统的“友好”概念是如何随着环境的变化而改变的首先是帝国时期,更深刻的是,随着基督教的出现?长期以来,古代历史学家和古典学家一直试图回答这些问题。学术论述可以大致分为两大领域,第一个领域过去是(现在也是)与罗马哲学思想的发展有关,尤其是西塞罗的著名论文《论爱》。由于罗马术语故意模糊的语义,使得对罗马人友好关系的研究变得极其复杂,罗马术语将友好关系用于各种社会关系,而不是大多数人现在称之为“友谊”的所有社会关系,除了严格的语言学问题之外,几乎没有达成共识。然而,除了这些语言学和哲学研究之外,20世纪80年代初出现了第二个领域,强调罗马个人关系制度对罗马历史研究的重要性,特别是在政治领域。近年来,由于对友好关系在罗马经济中的作用以及对创造和维持友好关系至关重要的交流和附属战略的重新关注,这一观点得到了扩大。此外,出现了一种可能被称为友谊研究的“民主化”,友谊不再被视为罗马精英男性之间的专属现象。基督教(以及新的哲学流派)在上古晚期的出现,伴随着新柏拉图主义和基督教观点对友谊的独特反思。Schramm 2013和White 1992(两者都在总览中被引用)提供了典型的方法和进一步的参考,但罗马世界后期对“友好”的解释不断变化,使其成为一个明显不同的主题,因此这一时期被排除在本参考书目之外。
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