Niall W Slater

Biographic Data

ID1009229
NAMENiall W Slater
GIVEN NAMESNiall W
FAMILY NAMESlater
SIGNATURESLATER N W
AFFILIATIONSEmory University
ORCID0000-0002-7030-8073
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS40
TOTAL CITATIONS84
AUTHOR COUNT37
EDITOR COUNT3
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1983
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2024
H-INDEX4

  • Role-Playing, Reconciliation, and Repetition: Parodies of Peacemaking on the Petronian Ship of State

    Niall W SlaterARTICLETrends in Classics2024

    The action on board Lichas’s ship in Petronius’s Satyrica presents a rich, repetitive, and multilayered parody of mediation, treaty-making, and the role of emotion in conflict and its aftermath, played out on the most personal level. When Encolpius and Giton are discovered, having accidentally taken passage with Lichas and Tryphaena whom they have egregiously betrayed, the poet Eumolpus seizes the role of mediator and attempts to defend them with…

  • Menander: Epitrepontes

    Alan H Sommerstein, C W Marshall et al.BOOKMenander2021

    This book introduces readers who may have no previous knowledge of Menander’s comedies to Epitrepontes (The Arbitration), arguably the most exquisitely crafted of his better-preserved plays. It explains what we know about the play, how we know it, and how far we can tentatively fill in the gaps in our knowledge. Sommerstein analyses the nature of the dramatic genre (Athenian New Comedy) to which Epitrepontes belongs. He assesses the plot and the …

  • The Idea of the Actor

    Open AccessNiall W SlaterCHAPTERNothing to Do with Dionysos?2020

  • Terence: Andria

    Sander M Goldberg, Ian C Storey et al.BOOKTerence2019

    Though Andria launched Terence’s career as a dramatist at Rome, it has attracted comparatively little attention from modern critics. The play nevertheless presents students of Roman comedy with all the features that came to characterize Terence’s particular version of traditional comedy, and it raises all the interpretive questions that have dogged the study of Terence for generations. The first two, comparatively brief chapters of this study ske…

  • Resurrection Woman: Love, Death and (After)Life in Petronius’s Widow of Ephesus

    Niall W SlaterCHAPTERLife, Love and Death in Latin…2018

  • Up from Tragicomedy: The Growth of Hope in Greek Comedy

    Niall W SlaterCHAPTERHope in Ancient Literature,…2018

  • Voice and Voices in Antiquity: Orality and Literacy in the Ancient World, Vol. 11

    Niall W Slater, Niall SlaterBOOKVoice and Voices in Antiquity2017

    Voice and Voices in Antiquity draws together 18 studies of the changing concept of voice and voices in the oral traditions and subsequent literate genres of the ancient world. Ranging from the poet's voice to those of characters as well as historically embodied communities, and from the interface between the Greek and Near Eastern worlds to the western reaches of the Roman Empire, the scholars assembled here offer a methodologically rich and dive…

  • Aristophanes in Antiquity: Reputation and Reception

    Niall W SlaterCHAPTERBrill's companion to the…2016

  • Roman Tragedy through a Comic Lens

    Niall W SlaterCHAPTERBrill's companion to Roman tragedy2015

  • Speaking Verse to Power: Circulation of Oral and Written Critique in the Lives of the Caesars

    Niall W SlaterCHAPTERBetween orality and literacy2014

    Suetonius's Lives of the Caesars offers numerous glimpses into a world of anonymous criticism, some prose, verse, multi-media performances, that circulated orally, as written libelli , and as graffiti in public places at Rome. The Romans saw the practices of anonymous criticism of the society's leaders as a part of a continuum, whether expressed orally or by writing. Writers of verses undoubtedly hoped for oral distribution and transmission of th…

  • Oscar Wilde and Ancient Greece by Iain Ross (review)

    Niall W SlaterARTICLEThe Classical World2014

    Reviewed by: Oscar Wilde and Ancient Greece by Iain Ross Niall W. Slater Iain Ross. Oscar Wilde and Ancient Greece. Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture, 82. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2013. Pp. xv, 274. $95.00. ISBN 978–1-107–02032–0. Ross’s richly researched and sometimes dauntingly detailed study of Oscar Wilde as inheritor and transmuter of the classical tradition offers matter of interest to…

  • Euripides: Alcestis: Alcestis

    Open AccessNiall W SlaterBOOKEuripides: Alcestis2013

    This open access edition explores the reception and afterlife of the Alcestis, as well as its main themes, the myth before the play, the play's historical and social context and the central developments in modern criticism. In the Alcestis, the title character sacrifices her own life to save that of her husband, Admetus, when he is presented with the opportunity to have someone die in his place. Alcestis compresses within itself both tragedy and …

  • Lucian’s Saturnalian Epistolarity

    Niall W SlaterCHAPTEREpistolary Narratives in Ancient…2013

    Lucian's Saturnalia is itself Saturnalian in form, a heteroglossic collection of dialogue, law, and letters, to which the disparate voices of the letter collection form the contradictory conclusion. One might be tempted to see in Lucian's Saturnalia a perfect metaphor for the Second Sophistic, conventionally seen as a profound cultural yearning for the greatness of past authority and a program for bolstering Greek identity under the empire but ma…

  • Chapter Twelve. Orality And Autobiography: The Case Of The Res Gestae

    Niall W SlaterCHAPTEROrality, literacy, memory in the…2007

    In the ongoing debates over the nature of the Augustan imperial settlement, however, discussion of the form of the Res Gestae as an act of communication has usually been pushed to the background, as has its importance as autobiography, however brief. Although Augustus' own words more than once acknowledge the status of the Res Gestae as writing, the first person mode of discourse seems to position the text somewhere between the oral and the writt…

  • Satyr Drama: Tragedy at Play

    Z Philip Ambrose, Thomas H Carpenter et al.BOOKSatyr Drama2005

  • Terence

    Niall W Slater, John BarsbyARTICLEThe Classical World2004

  • Spectator and Spectacle in Apuleius

    Niall W SlaterCHAPTERAncient Novel and Beyond2003

  • Apuleius und die Räuber: Ein Beitrag zur historischen Kriminalitätsforschung

    Niall W Slater, Werner Rie et al.ARTICLEThe Classical World2002

  • "Laughter and Derision in Petronius' "Satyrica

    Niall W Slater, Maria Plaza et al.ARTICLEPhoenix2002

  • Alexis: The Fragments: A Commentary

    Niall W Slater, W Geoffrey ArnottARTICLEThe Classical World1999

    Introduction Part I. Alexis' Career Part II. Sources of the Fragments Commentary False or doubtful attributions Appendices

  • Passion and Petrifaction: The Gaze in Apuleius

    Niall W SlaterARTICLEClassical Philology1998Cited by: 4References: 6

  • Nero's Masks

    Niall W SlaterARTICLEThe Classical World1996

    Two sources, Suetonius and Dio Cassius, report that Nero performed some of his theatrical roles while wearing portrait masks of himself and his female lovers. Shadi Bartsch, in her recent fascinating study of theatricality under Nero and his successors, calls attention to this remarkable fact, focusing in particular on the narrative in Suetonius as emblematic of the endemic confusion between reality and theatricality in the reign of this performe…

  • Aristophanes: Frogs

    Niall W Slater, K J Dover et al.ARTICLEThe Classical World1995

  • From harena to Cena: Trimalchio'S capis ( Sat . 52.1–3)

    Open AccessNiall W SlaterARTICLEThe Classical Quarterly1994References: 4

    Trimalchio is such an established figure of fun in the Satyricon that commentators have been content to note the myths that he jumbles together in his description of his tableware here, without going much further. Clearly his scyphoi portray Medea and her dead children, not Cassandra, and we assume that he can recognize gladiatorial fights when he sees them. Heretofore lacking is any discussion of what scene was actually represented on the capis …

  • Roofed Theatres of Classical Antiquity

    Niall W Slater, George C IzenourARTICLEThe Classical World1994Cited by: 1