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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      June 2012
      February 2010
      ISBN:
      9780511674785
      9780521885232
      9781009073196
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511674785
      Dimensions:
      (216 x 138 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.86kg, 544 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (216 x 140 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.666kg, 544 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Classical Studies, Classical Literature
      Collection:
      Cambridge Classical Texts and Commentaries
      Series:
      Cambridge Classical Texts and Commentaries (46)
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    Subjects:
    Classical Studies, Classical Literature
    Collection:
    Cambridge Classical Texts and Commentaries
    Series:
    Cambridge Classical Texts and Commentaries (46)
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    This is a newly revised, critical text of the fragments attributed to the Roman knight and mimographer Decimus Laberius, a witty and crudely satirical contemporary of Cicero and Caesar. Laberius is perhaps the most celebrated comic playwright of the late Republic, and the fragments of plays attributed to him comprise the overwhelming majority of the extant evidence for what we conventionally call 'the literary Roman mime'. The volume also includes a survey of the characteristics and development of the Roman mime, both as a literary genre and as a type of popular theatrical entertainment, as well as a re-evaluation of the place of Laberius' work within its historical and literary context. This is the first English translation of all the fragments, and the first detailed English commentary on them from a linguistic, metrical, and (wherever possible) theatrical perspective.

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