The myth of Atreus and Thyestes, possible the most bloodstained and tragic, was also one of the most frequently performed on the Roman stage. Several studies devoted to the dramatic fortune of the myth have in panicular emphasized the political meaning taken on by Accius' Atreus, Varius' Thyestes or under the Empire the tragedies of Scaurus and Curiatius Maternus. Can we hold, however, the Accius was the first to interpret the myth, a highly complex one by the way, in a political sense ? Ennius, as early as 1 69 on the eve of Pydna, must have seized the opportunity offered to him by the Appolinarian games to express through his Thyestes his views on the situation : the play partook of an anti-Macedonian propaganda that had been at work ever...
In books VIII and IX of the Republics, the birth of tyranny is described as the final stage in the d...
Troilus and Cressida and the Fall of Troy The plot of Troilus and Cressida has often puzzled specta...
Le mythe des Atrides, qui résume à lui seul, toutes les horreurs et toutes les cruautés dont l’homme...
This thesis reconstructs the Attic and Republican fragments of lost Thyestes tragedies, in order to ...
This paper examines the testimonia about the myth of Atreus and Thyestes, focusing in particular on ...
Biographies of an Alexandrian type substitute for historic accuracy the symbolism of reported events...
Tragedy was a frequent vehicle for the allegorical interpretation of historical events, although the...
The beginning of the iambic trimeter at Rome. I. The fragment of the Athamas by Ennius. Charisius a...
Vergilius’ expression dicta tyranni, found in the account of the duel between Turnus and Pallantes, ...
The aim of the author is to study the Poetics of enargeia (the quality of "evidence") in latin epics...
Myth and theatre : the theme of the lady on the chariot in the Royal legend in Rome. In Rome, Tana...
Each of the three great Roman tragedians of the Republic, Ennius, Accius and Pacuvius, wrote plays c...
Considéré comme un historien qui sacrifie rigueur et exactitude à son souci de la rhétorique, Quinte...
A comparative study of the ecphrasis representing Ganymed's abduction in Latin epic genre shows that...
This paper aims at showing the importance of early Latin theatre with respect to the Roman view of f...
In books VIII and IX of the Republics, the birth of tyranny is described as the final stage in the d...
Troilus and Cressida and the Fall of Troy The plot of Troilus and Cressida has often puzzled specta...
Le mythe des Atrides, qui résume à lui seul, toutes les horreurs et toutes les cruautés dont l’homme...
This thesis reconstructs the Attic and Republican fragments of lost Thyestes tragedies, in order to ...
This paper examines the testimonia about the myth of Atreus and Thyestes, focusing in particular on ...
Biographies of an Alexandrian type substitute for historic accuracy the symbolism of reported events...
Tragedy was a frequent vehicle for the allegorical interpretation of historical events, although the...
The beginning of the iambic trimeter at Rome. I. The fragment of the Athamas by Ennius. Charisius a...
Vergilius’ expression dicta tyranni, found in the account of the duel between Turnus and Pallantes, ...
The aim of the author is to study the Poetics of enargeia (the quality of "evidence") in latin epics...
Myth and theatre : the theme of the lady on the chariot in the Royal legend in Rome. In Rome, Tana...
Each of the three great Roman tragedians of the Republic, Ennius, Accius and Pacuvius, wrote plays c...
Considéré comme un historien qui sacrifie rigueur et exactitude à son souci de la rhétorique, Quinte...
A comparative study of the ecphrasis representing Ganymed's abduction in Latin epic genre shows that...
This paper aims at showing the importance of early Latin theatre with respect to the Roman view of f...
In books VIII and IX of the Republics, the birth of tyranny is described as the final stage in the d...
Troilus and Cressida and the Fall of Troy The plot of Troilus and Cressida has often puzzled specta...
Le mythe des Atrides, qui résume à lui seul, toutes les horreurs et toutes les cruautés dont l’homme...