The Comoedia Togata, a ‘Roman’ Literary Genre?
| dc.creator | Rallo, Guiseppe Eugenio | |
| dc.date | 2020-09-01 | |
| dc.description | This paper aims to shed fresh light on the Togata. By analysing the extant fragments, I will investigate if and in what sense it may be defined as a ‘Roman’ literary genre. I will focus on its ‘Roman-ness’, and I will highlight that it is a complex concept, without the ‘nationalistic’ connotations that one normally gives to the notion. I will demonstrate that the Togata is ‘Roman’ because it betrayed an attempt at creating a genre distinguished from the Palliata, and it had a widespread ‘Roman’ patina, with settings, names, and stereotypes which one would not find in other contemporary genres, in particular the Palliata. At the same time, I will also reflect on the fact that the Togata was a multifarious genre, with Latin, Italic, and Greek elements, and I will show that this was, paradoxically, another aspect of its ‘Roman-ness’. | |
| dc.identifier | https://ojs.lib.unideb.hu/classica/article/view/9732 | |
| dc.identifier | 10.22315/ACD/2020/14 | |
| dc.publisher | University of Debrecen. | |
| dc.rights | Copyright (c) 2021 Acta Classica Universitatis Scientiarum Debreceniensis | |
| dc.source | Acta Classica Universitatis Scientiarum Debreceniensis; Vol. 56 (2020); 227-245 | |
| dc.source | 2732-3390 | |
| dc.source | 0418-453X | |
| dc.subject | Togata | |
| dc.subject | Roman comedy | |
| dc.subject | Roman literature, identity, and society in mid-Republican Rome | |
| dc.subject | multilingualism | |
| dc.subject | multiculturalism | |
| dc.title | The Comoedia Togata, a ‘Roman’ Literary Genre? | |
| dc.type | info:eu-repo/semantics/article | |
| dc.type | info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion | |
| dc.type | Peer-reviewed Article |