Sander M Goldberg
Biographic Data
| ID | 1040911 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sander M Goldberg |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sander M |
| FAMILY NAME | Goldberg |
| SIGNATURE | GOLDBERG S M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Los Angeles |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 50 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 133 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 49 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1976 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Jochen Schultheiß (Hg.)
Petra Schierl (Hg.)
Ennius Beyond Epic
Writing Literary History in the Greek and Roman World
Covering a wide variety of Greek and Latin texts that span from the Archaic period down to Late Antiquity, this volume represents the first concerted attempt to understand ancient literary history in its full complexity and on its own terms. Abandoning long-standing misconceptions derived from the misleading application of modern assumptions and standards, the volume rehabilitates an often neglected but fundamentally important subject: the Greeks…
Early Latin
The Language of Early Latin Epic
A calculated use of language for deliberate stylistic effects, intended to distinguish epic diction from contemporary speech, characterised formal Latin poetry from the very beginning. This review of early epic language aims to explore the main sources, mechanisms and effects of these first experiments in the creation of a Latin epic style. It is a fact that the epic poets’ record of achievement is obscured by its survival in merely fragmentary f…
Plautus
This new volume in the Bloomsbury Ancient Comedy Companions series is perfect for students coming to one of Plautus’ most whimsical, provocative, and influential plays for the first time, and a useful first point of reference for scholars less familiar with Roman comedy. Menaechmi is a tale of identical twin brothers who are separated as young children and reconnect as adults following a series of misadventures due to mistaken identity. A glutton…
Plautus
Plautus’ Mostellaria is one of ancient Rome’s most breezy and amusing comedies. The plot is ridiculously simple: when a father returns home after three years abroad, a clever slave named Tranio devises deceptions to conceal that the son has squandered a fortune partying with pals and purchasing his prized prostitute’s freedom. Tranio convinces the gullible father that his house is haunted, that his son has purchased the neighbor’s house, and that…
Plautus
This is the first book-length study of Plautus’ shortest surviving comedy, Curculio, a play in which the tricksy brown-nosed title character (“The Weevil”) bamboozles a shady banker and a pious pimp to secure the freedom of the enslaved girl his patron has fallen for while keeping her out of the clutches of a megalomaniacal soldier. It all takes place in the Greek city Epidaurus, the most important site for the worship of the healing god Aesculap…
From Homer’s Banquet to Fauchois’ Feast
The tragedian Aeschylus is said to have called his plays slices from Homer’s banquet, by which he presumably meant slices from what Homer had left behind on the table. 1 It is much easier, as Aeschylus knew (and so famously did), to develop stories that Homer probably knew but did not tell or (as Roman poets eventually did) to weave new stories using Homeric techniques than it is to rework in an artistically effective way what Homer had already d…
Terence
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…
Plautus
This volume provides an introduction to Plautus’s Casina, a sophisticated sex farce that premiered ca. 185 BCE. This companion study of Plautus’s comedy analyses the play for a student audience and assumes no knowledge of Latin but will also be of interest to scholars. It launches a new series of books, each treating a comedy that survives from the ancient world. The introductory chapter provides pertinent background about Plautus’s career transl…
Aristophanes
This is the first volume dedicated to Aristophanes’ comedy Peace that analyses the play for a student audience and assumes no knowledge of Greek. It launches a much-needed new series of books each discussing a comedy that survives from the ancient world. Six chapters highlight the play’s context, themes, staging and legacy including its response to contemporary wartime politics and the possible staging options for flying. It is ideal for students…
Theater without Theaters
The Roman plays we know best, the comedies of Plautus and Terence, were first performed when we know least about where and how plays were staged. Greater attention to production values and advances in the study of Roman material culture offer new insights. This essay looks specifically at the Forum Romanum, a documented site for theatrical and gladiatorial shows in Republican Rome, combining textual and material evidence with computer-generated m…
The Future of Antiquity
This concluding chapter reviews the lessons learned from the collection, paying particular attention to the ways commentaries empower their users by providing ready access to expert knowledge even as they empower their authors through patterns of inclusion and exclusion that tacitly set the agenda for future inquiry. The role of teaching in the shaping of commentaries is also emphasized. The chapter then surveys recent experiments in online syste…
Greek and Roman Elements in Senecan Tragedy
Terence
Terence's Hecyra raises social, literary and theatrical issues of great interest to modern students of Roman comedy and, indeed, of Roman culture more broadly. The play pays strikingly close attention to the domestic problems of women and experiments boldly with traditional comic forms, not only in its creation of anticipatory suspense, but through its variations on traditional situations and roles and its metatheatrical qualities. In addition, T…
Roman Comedy Gets Back to Basics
Twenty-one plays survive under the name of Plautus. Add the six by Terence and the fragmentary record from Andronicus in the mid-third century to Turpilius late in the second, and the result is a significant corpus with something for nearly everyone: an extensive record of Latin at a key period in its history, a major arena for the Romans' ongoing struggle with Hellenism, a genre more central to later Western drama than anything Greek, and, howev…
The faces of eloquence
Few live in a Golden Age. Fewer still ever know that they do. Even Cicero thought eloquence in short supply among his contemporaries, and complaints and regrets over oratory's diminishing quality mounted among his successors. The laments usually came embedded in a wider discourse of decline that tied oratory's downward trajectory to the indolence, greed and intellectual laxity of a grasping and complacent world: Romans were not inclined to fault …
The Cambridge Companion to Tacitus
Tacitus is universally recognised as ancient Rome's greatest writer of history, and his account of the Roman Empire in the first century AD has been fundamental in shaping the modern perception of Rome and its emperors. This Companion provides a new, up-to-date and authoritative assessment of his work and influence which will be invaluable for students and non-specialists as well as of interest to established scholars in the field. First situatin…
Comedy and society from Menander to Terence
'Menander and Life! Which of you imitated which?' Aristophanes of Byzantium The third-century scholar Aristophanes of Byzantium, one of Alexandria's greatest figures, certainly knew Greek literature and how to read it, but his oft-quoted epigram has not been especially helpful to Menander's reputation. Finding in the conventional (some have said 'hackneyed') plots and characters of Menandrean comedy, where citizen boy will get citizen girl even i…
The Cambridge Companion to Greek and Roman Theatre
This series of essays by prominent academics and practitioners investigates in detail the history of performance in the classical Greek and Roman world. Beginning with the earliest examples of 'dramatic' presentation in the epic cycles and reaching through to the latter days of the Roman Empire and beyond, this 2007 Companion covers many aspects of these broad presentational societies. Dramatic performances that are text-based form only one part …
Constructing Literature in the Roman Republic
This 2006 book examines how the Romans came to have a literature, how that literature reflected native and foreign impulses, and how it formed a legacy for subsequent generations have become central questions in the cultural history of the Republic. It examines the problem of Rome's literary development by shifting attention from Rome's writers to its readers. The literature we traditionally call 'early' is seen to be a product less of the mid-Re…
The Boastful Chef
Anyone who has watched Algernon Moncrieff devour cucumber sandwiches knows that food can be funny. The Greeks knew it, too. Greek comedy, as represented not just by Aristophanes in the fifth century and Menander in the fourth, but by the many, now fragmentary, authors who wrote in the decades between and around them, found a rich vein of humor in the materials, the practices, and the results of eating and drinking. It even created a stock charact…
Seneca in Performance
The plays of Seneca the Younger, minister and philosopher under Nero, are today increasingly studied, appreciated - and performed. Here, in a collection of papers from an international cast, scholars explore both established questions, such as the playwright's subtleties of characterisation, his relation to contemporary Roman spectacle and art - and the problems arising in translating him to modern text or stage.
Appreciating Aper
Nearly a century ago, Friedrich Leo argued with his characteristic acumen that the neo-Ciceronian style of Tacitus' Dialogus de oratoribus was as much a function of its genre as its subject. ‘The genre’, he observed, ‘demands its style. One who deals with different genres must write in different styles.’ Alfred Gudeman, the target of Leo's review, had therefore missed a key step in the argument for Tacitean authorship when he invoked ‘the influen…
Plautus on the Palatine
It was probably in the agora at Athens and possibly in the seventieth Olympiad (i.e. 499–496 B.C.) that a wooden grandstand collapsed while a play by Pratinas was being performed. The Athenians responded quite sensibly to this disaster by moving their dramatic performances to the precinct of Dionysus Eleuthereus, where the audience could be more safely accommodated on the south slope of the acropolis. Or so it appears: no fact of this early perio…
Understanding Terence
Instead of seeing Terence primarily as an adapter of Greek New Comedy, Sander Goldberg treats him as an innovative dramatist writing for a specifically Roman audience. His book will interest not only students of classical literature but also those concerned with wider problems of critical theory and the comic tradition. Originally published in 1986. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available pr…
The Making of Menander's Comedy
I. From Old Comedy to New II. Mapping the Terrain III. Aspis (The Shield): The Mixture of Modes IV. Perikeiromene (The Shorn Girl): Plot and Situation V. Epitrepontes (The Arbitrants): The Refashioned Recognition VI. Dyskolos (The Grouch): A Play of Combinations VII. Samia (The Samian Woman): A Play of Successful Combinations VIII. Menander and Life Bibliography Notes Index
Epic in Republican Rome
Epic in Republican Rome discusses authors of now-fragmentary epic poetry not simply as predecessors of Vergil, but as pioneers and poets in their own rights. Behind the early literary experiments of Andronicus and Naevius, Ennius and Cicero, lie issues of poetry and patronage, and of cultural assimilation and national ideology, that not only come to characterize Roman literature of all periods, but continue to shape modern responses to that liter…
"Act to Action in Plautus' "Bacchides
Theater without Theaters
The Roman plays we know best, the comedies of Plautus and Terence, were first performed when we know least about where and how plays were staged. Greater attention to production values and advances in the study of Roman material culture offer new insights. This essay looks specifically at the Forum Romanum, a documented site for theatrical and gladiatorial shows in Republican Rome, combining textual and material evidence with computer-generated m…
Roman Epic
The Making of Menander's Comedy
A Note on Aristophanes' Φροντιστηριον
Scholarship on Terence and the Fragments of Roman Comedy 1959-1980
The Making of Menander's Comedy
The Making of Menander's Comedy
I. From Old Comedy to New II. Mapping the Terrain III. Aspis (The Shield): The Mixture of Modes IV. Perikeiromene (The Shorn Girl): Plot and Situation V. Epitrepontes (The Arbitrants): The Refashioned Recognition VI. Dyskolos (The Grouch): A Play of Combinations VII. Samia (The Samian Woman): A Play of Successful Combinations VIII. Menander and Life Bibliography Notes Index
Understanding Terence
Instead of seeing Terence primarily as an adapter of Greek New Comedy, Sander Goldberg treats him as an innovative dramatist writing for a specifically Roman audience. His book will interest not only students of classical literature but also those concerned with wider problems of critical theory and the comic tradition. Originally published in 1986. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available pr…
Studies in the Textual Tradition of Terence
Understanding Terence
The Teaching of Latin in American Schools
Narrative Semiotics in the Epic Tradition
"Act to Action in Plautus' "Bacchides
Reconstructions
Latin literature began not with epic but with public spectacle, and it was fostered as a matter of public policy. The year was 240. The Romans, having just defeated Carthage in the First Punic War, were quick to flex cultural as well as political muscle. They expanded the native ludi Romani, a festival that had long offered musical and stage performances, to include formal plays in the Greek style. A man named Livius Andronicus was commissioned t…
Texts and Abbreviations
Subject Ancient Roman History Textual Criticism Collection: Oxford Scholarship Online
Title Pages
Concordances
Subject Ancient Roman History Textual Criticism Collection: Oxford Scholarship Online
Poetry and Patronage
Midway through Plautus’ Truculentus, the soldier Stratophanes makes a grand and delightfully disingenuous entrance. We treat his comment today as a literary, perhaps even meta¬ theatrical joke. This confident soldier, glinting before us in full kit, plays to our expectations of the braggart warrior. His speech may bring Pyrgopolynices to mind, or Therapontigonus Platagidorus, or any of those other comic gloriosi whose words prove so much bolder t…
Ciceronian Sirens
What little we know of Ennius’ immediate successors provides little help for tracing the details of epic’s development, but there is no doubt of its growing popularity. By the later second century, a time when revivers of Plautus’ Casina would lament the demise of drama’s flos poetarum (19), epic verse began appearing with some frequency at Rome. Accius, that man of many talents and interests, found time to write Annales, though the meager remain…
Saturnian Aesthetics
Horace knew what he thought of Saturnian verse, and the thought was not kind. When Greece imposed its arts on rustic Latium, an early and welcome casualty among the natives was the Saturnian, whose demise likened The greater appeal of the Greek import proved undeniable and unstoppable. In the course of the second century, a Latinized form of dactylic hexameter became the recognized epic meter at Rome, and elegiac inscriptions began replacing Satu…
Ruins
Latinists as a group remain wary of theory, and especially wary of literary theory. So many ancient works beg for study and present so many specific problems of language, style, and interpretation that we often think it distracting or even self-indulgent to divert attention from the literature we serve to our method of serving it. Yet the introspective exercise that theory entails is not entirely frivolous, nor is it necessarily a bad thing. Karl…
Hexameter Aesthetics
When Aeneas and his men land at Cumae, the Sibyl instructs them to provide proper burial for their shipmate Misenus. They promptly set off to gather timber for a funeral pyre. This description owes a double debt: a remote one to Homer, who described the felling of oaks for the funeral pyre of Patroclus (II. 23.114-20), and a nearer debt to Ennius, whose Roman soldiers brought down a more varied forest at Heraclea to fuel a pyre for casualties of …
Envoi
Derek Walcott’s Omeros is well worth a Latinist’s attention. It is not just a poem of modem Caribbean life or some extraordinary classical revenant. Nor is it of interest only for its stock of classical allusions, though they are plentiful: its Achille and Hector vie for their Helen. Philoctete suffers a festering wound on his shin. Trees are felled, men struggle in the surf, voyages are undertaken, and passions flare with conspicuously Homeric c…
Epic in Republican Rome
Epic in Republican Rome discusses authors of now-fragmentary epic poetry not simply as predecessors of Vergil, but as pioneers and poets in their own rights. Behind the early literary experiments of Andronicus and Naevius, Ennius and Cicero, lie issues of poetry and patronage, and of cultural assimilation and national ideology, that not only come to characterize Roman literature of all periods, but continue to shape modern responses to that liter…
Epic in Republican Rome
Plautus on the Palatine
It was probably in the agora at Athens and possibly in the seventieth Olympiad (i.e. 499–496 B.C.) that a wooden grandstand collapsed while a play by Pratinas was being performed. The Athenians responded quite sensibly to this disaster by moving their dramatic performances to the precinct of Dionysus Eleuthereus, where the audience could be more safely accommodated on the south slope of the acropolis. Or so it appears: no fact of this early perio…
Appreciating Aper
Nearly a century ago, Friedrich Leo argued with his characteristic acumen that the neo-Ciceronian style of Tacitus' Dialogus de oratoribus was as much a function of its genre as its subject. ‘The genre’, he observed, ‘demands its style. One who deals with different genres must write in different styles.’ Alfred Gudeman, the target of Leo's review, had therefore missed a key step in the argument for Tacitean authorship when he invoked ‘the influen…
Seneca in Performance
The plays of Seneca the Younger, minister and philosopher under Nero, are today increasingly studied, appreciated - and performed. Here, in a collection of papers from an international cast, scholars explore both established questions, such as the playwright's subtleties of characterisation, his relation to contemporary Roman spectacle and art - and the problems arising in translating him to modern text or stage.
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