Flavian Drama
Looking Back with Octavia
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 20046161 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Joseph A Smith (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2003 |
| Pages | 391-430 |
| Publication date | 2003-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | CHAPTER |
| Venue | Flavian Rome (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Brill (PUBLISHER • NL) |
| DOI | 10.1163/9789004217157_016 |
| OpenAlex | W910966074 |
| ISBN | 9789004217157 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 22 |
Octavia is a Flavian dramatic text. Modern readings of the play have been predominantly framed by two issues of reception; the play's marked compositional differences from the constituent plays of the Senecan tragic corpus with which Octavia has been transmitted from antiquity, and its status as history play (that is, how the play serves as representative of Roman history drama and how this particular history drama serves to inform Neronian history). Octavia is a tragedy that takes its plot from events of Roman history. It is different from Senecan mythological tragedies and is treated on its own terms. Octavia is gesturing to herself; given her mode of song, these gestures likely resound plangorously. Every historic character in the drama, for that matter, is motivated to articulate the self through such emphatically placed self-demonstrative gesturing cues. The conclusion of the play concerns the political upheaval of the rest of this day. Keywords: Flavian Drama; Octavia ; Roman history; Senecan mythological tragedies
Art · Drama · Literature · Classical Antiquity Studies · History
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Nero in Hollywood
Petronius, Realism, Nero
Nero and the Senate
Nero’s Women
Seneca and the Quest for Glory in Nero’s Golden Age
Art and the Decadent City
Burning Rome, Burning Christians
Introduction
The Neronian “Symptom”
“Ain’t Sayin’”
Lucan’s Civil War in Nero’s Rome
Nero’s Memory in Flavian Rome
Staging Nero
Nero the Performer
Nero
Nero’s Imperial Administration
While Rome Burned
The Cambridge Companion to the Age of Nero
Wars More Than Civil
| Citations per year | 1.69 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2013 - 2020 (8) |
| Highly cited | No |