Mario Erasmo draws on all the available evidence to trace the evolution of Roman tragedy from the earliest tragedians to the dramatist Seneca and to explore the role played by Roman culture in ...shaping the perception of theatricality on and off the stage.
In Reading Death in Ancient Rome, Mario Erasmo considers
both actual funerary rituals and their literary depictions in epic,
elegy, epitaphs, drama, and prose works as a form of participatory
theater ...in which the performers and the depicters of rituals engage
in strategies to involve the viewer/reader in the ritual process,
specifically by invoking and playing on their cultural associations
at a number of levels simultaneously. He focuses on the associative
reading process-the extent to which literary texts allude to
funeral and burial ritual, the narrative role played by the
allusion to recreate a fictive version of the ritual, and how the
allusion engages readers' knowledge of the ritual or previous
literary intertexts. Such a strategy can advance a range of
authorial agendas by inviting readers to read and reread
assumptions about both the surrounding Roman culture and earlier
literature invoked through intertextual referencing. By
(re)defining their relation to the dead, readers assume various
roles in an ongoing communion with the departed. Reading Death
in Ancient Rome makes an important and innovative contribution
to semiotic theory as applied to classical texts and to the
emerging field of mortality studies. It should thus appeal to
classicists as well as to advanced undergraduate and graduate
students in art history and archeology.
Rabbit Fibroma is a Leporipoxviral disease and is considered the third most common cutaneous neoplasm in pet rabbits. Two domestic rabbits (Oryctolagus cuniculus) were submitted to the veterinary ...clinic due to the presence of a nodule on the lip. Histologically, epithelial cells of the epidermis and hair follicles showed mild to moderate ballooning degeneration, spongiosis, and several eosinophilic intracytoplasmic inclusion bodies. The dermis was expanded by atypical spindle cells that also showed eosinophilic intracytoplasmic inclusion bodies. The tissues were evaluated by using transmission electron microscopy. In both cases, keratinocytes exhibit several electron dense and pleomorphic intracytoplasmic viral particles consistent with Poxviruses. To our knowledge, this is the first case report of Rabbit Fibroma Virus infection in Domestic Rabbits in Mexico.
To walk through Florence is to step into one of the most remarkable histories of any European city. From its establishment by Julius Caesar in the first century BC, through its Golden Age at the ...epicentre of the Italian Renaissance, to its position as an iconic cultural destination in the twenty-first century, Florence is a small city that packs a lot of punch. This is the city of Dante and Boccaccio, Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo, the Medici, Botticelli, Donatello and the 'Mad Monk' Savonarola. Their stories permeate every corner of Florence, but the city's contemporary scene is just as alluring, from cutting edge art and fashion to food. It is only by exploring Florence on foot that the visitor can truly experience everything the city has to offer.
The Theatre of Pompey Erasmo, Mario
Memoirs of the American Academy in Rome,
01/2020, Letnik:
65
Journal Article
At the opening of his theatre in 55 BCE, Pompey staged a version of his triple triumph of 61 BCE within the dramatic action of a restaged version of Accius’ Clytemnestra. Agamemnon’s triumphal return ...to Mycenae (or Argos) became a vehicle for Pompey to represent and re-present himself as a triumphator before an assembled audience. This article examines the physical and figurative implications of Pompey’s self-representation as Alexander the Great and Agamemnon through his manipulation of text and architecture at the opening of his theatre. The opening of the theatre contributed to its permanence as a victory monument through Pompey’s staging of the self through Roman architecture.
Rabbit Fibroma is a Leporipoxviral disease and is considered the third most common cutaneous neoplasm in pet rabbits. Two domestic rabbits (Oryctolagus cuniculus) were submitted to the veterinary ...clinic due to the presence of a nodule on the lip. Histologically, epithelial cells of the epidermis and hair follicles showed mild to moderate ballooning degeneration, spongiosis, and several eosinophilic intracytoplasmic inclusion bodies. The dermis was expanded by atypical spindle cells that also showed eosinophilic intracytoplasmic inclusion bodies. The tissues were evaluated by using transmission electron microscopy. In both cases, keratinocytes exhibit several electron dense and pleomorphic intracytoplasmic viral particles consistent with Poxviruses. To our knowledge, this is the first case report of Rabbit Fibroma Virus infection in Domestic Rabbits in Mexico.
Roman tragedies were written for over three hundred years, but only fragments remain of plays that predate the works of Seneca in the mid-first century C.E., making it difficult to define the role of ...tragedy in ancient Roman culture. Nevertheless, in this pioneering book, Mario Erasmo draws on all the available evidence to trace the evolution of Roman tragedy from the earliest tragedians to the dramatist Seneca and to explore the role played by Roman culture in shaping the perception of theatricality on and off the stage.
Performing a philological analysis of texts informed by semiotic theory and audience reception, Erasmo pursues two main questions in this study: how does Roman tragedy become metatragedy, and how did off-stage theatricality come to compete with the theatre? Working chronologically, he looks at how plays began to incorporate a rhetoricized reality on stage, thus pointing to their own theatricality. And he shows how this theatricality, in turn, came to permeate society, so that real events such as the assassination of Julius Caesar took on theatrical overtones, while Pompey's theatre opening and the lavish spectacles of the emperor Nero deliberately blurred the lines between reality and theatre. Tragedy eventually declined as a force in Roman culture, Erasmo suggests, because off-stage reality became so theatrical that on-stage tragedy could no longer compete.
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