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'''Fabula palliata''' or '''Palliata''' (plural '''Fabulae palliatae''' or '''palliatae''') are names assigned by the [[Ancient Rome|Romans]] to a genre of comedy ('''Comoedia palliata''') that reworked in Latin the themes of Greek [[Ancient Greek comedy|New Comedy]].<ref>{{cite book|author=Terence|authorlink=Terence|coauthors=Ashmore, Sidney Gillespie|title=P. Terenti Afri Comoediae: The comedies of Terence|location=New York|publisher=Oxford University Press, American branch|date=1908|page=14}}</ref> The genre began with the comedies of [[Livius Andronicus]], who also initiated Roman literature and Roman drama. |
'''Fabula palliata''' or '''Palliata''' (plural '''Fabulae palliatae''' or '''palliatae''') are names assigned by the [[Ancient Rome|Romans]] to a genre of comedy ('''Comoedia palliata''') that reworked in Latin the themes of Greek [[Ancient Greek comedy|New Comedy]].<ref>{{cite book|author=Terence|authorlink=Terence|coauthors=Ashmore, Sidney Gillespie|title=P. Terenti Afri Comoediae: The comedies of Terence|location=New York|publisher=Oxford University Press, American branch|date=1908|page=14}}</ref> The genre began with the comedies of [[Livius Andronicus]], who also initiated Roman literature and Roman drama. |
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Fabula palliata or Palliata (plural Fabulae palliatae or palliatae) are names assigned by the Romans to a genre of comedy (Comoedia palliata) that reworked in Latin the themes of Greek New Comedy.[1] The genre began with the comedies of Livius Andronicus, who also initiated Roman literature and Roman drama.
The name comes from the pallium, a small cape traditionally worn by the actors who performed in this type of play, in imitation of the himation worn by Greek actors.[2]
Definition and history of the concept
Knowledge of the genre comes from a 1st-century BC literary critic named Volcacius Sedigitus, of whom nothing is known except his report in Aulus Gellius.[3] Of the writers whose works have survived at all Sedigitus identifies as well Naevius, Plautus, Ennius, Caecilius and Terence as contributors to the genre. In addition were Licinius, Atilius, Turpilius, Trabea and Luscius Lanuvius.
Notes
- ^ Terence (1908). P. Terenti Afri Comoediae: The comedies of Terence. New York: Oxford University Press, American branch. p. 14.
{{cite book}}: Unknown parameter|coauthors=ignored (|author=suggested) (help) - ^ "Fabula palliata". Britannica Online Encyclopedia. Retrieved 17 October 2009.
- ^ Smith, William; Anthon, Charles (July 9, 2006). A new classical dictionary of Greek and Roman biography, mythology and geography. Vol. 2. Kessinger. p. 794. ISBN 978-1-4286-4561-5.
Sedigĭtus, Volcātĭus, from whose work De Poētis A. Gellius (xv., 24) has preserved iambic senarians, in which the principal Latin comics are enumerated in order of merit.
References
- G. E. Duckworth (1952). The Nature of Roman Comedy. Princeton University Press.
- C. W. Marshall (2006). The Stagecraft and Performance of Roman Comedy. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0521861616.
External links
- Lefèvre, Eckard (2003/04). "Asides in New Comedy and the Palliata" (pdf). Leeds International Classical Studies. 3 (3). ISSN 1477-3643.
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