Grig, Lucy
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Locating Popular Culture in the Ancient World Veranstaltung 2012 Edinburgh,
Locating Popular Culture in the Ancient World 2. Veranstaltung 2014 Breslau
Anmerkungen:
"The bulk of the chapters in this volume had their origin as papers delivered at the conference "Locating Popular Culture in the Ancient World", held at the University of Edinburgh in Juli 2012. A second conference, "Locating Popular Culture in the Ancient World 2", organized with Dr Agnieszka Kotlińska-Toma, was held at the University of Wroclaw in September 2014, at which two more of the chapters received helpful feedback" (Acknowledgements)
Beschreibung:
Introduction: approaching popular culture in the ancient world / Lucy Grig -- Part I. Classical Greece -- The popular culture of the Athenian institutions: "authorized" popular culture and "unauthorized" elite culture in classical Athens / Mirko Canevaro -- Humouring the masses: the theatre audience and highs and lows of Aristophanic comedy / James Robson -- Part II. Rome -- Popular public opinion in a nutshell: nicknames and non-elite political culture in the late republic / Cristina Rosillo-Lopez -- Plebeian culture in the city of Rome, from the late republic to the early empire / Cyril Courrier -- Pollio's paradox: popular invective and the transition to empire / Tom Hawkins -- The music of power and the power of music: studying popular auditory culture in ancient Rome / Alexandre Vincent -- Part III. The Roman Empire: Greece, Rome and beyond -- The intellectual life of the Roman non-elite / Jerry Toner -- Divination and popular culture / Victoria Jennings -- Children's cultures in Roman Egypt / April Pudsey -- Part IV. Late antiquity -- Interpreting the Kalends of January in late antiquity: a case study for late antique popular culture? / Lucy Grig -- Popular Christianity and lived religion in late antique Rome: seeing magic in the catacombs / Nicola Denzey Lewis -- Popular theology in late antiquity / Jaclyn Maxwell -- Communication and plebeian sociability in late antiquity: the view from North Africa in the age of Augustine / Julio Cesar Magalhaes de Oliveira