Cicero, Catullus, and the Language of Social PerformanceUniversity of Chicago Press, 2001 - 360 strán (strany) Charm, wit, and style were critical, but dangerous, ingredients in the social repertoire of the Roman elite. Their use drew special attention, but also exposed one to potential ridicule or rejection for valuing style over substance. Brian A. Krostenko explores the complexities and ambiguities of charm, wit, and style in Roman literature of the late Republic by tracking the origins, development, and use of the terms that described them, which he calls "the language of social performance." As Krostenko demonstrates, a key feature of this language is its capacity to express both approval and disdain—an artifact of its origins at a time when the "style" and "charm" of imported Greek cultural practices were greeted with both enthusiasm and hostility. Cicero played on that ambiguity, for example, by chastising lepidus ("fine") boys in the "Second Oration against Catiline" as degenerates, then arguing in his De Oratore that the successful speaker must have a certain charming lepos ("wit"). Catullus, in turn, exploited and inverted the political subtexts of this language for innovative poetic and erotic idioms. |
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of Social Performance | 21 |
the Display of Status 34 1 6 Venustus and the Erotics of Artfulness | 40 |
From | 75 |
of Social Performance | 84 |
Suauis Grauis The Birth of the Language of Rhetoric | 129 |
Non ut Vincula Virorum The Language of Social | 154 |
Social Identity 176 V 6 Inside or Outside? The Struggle for the Control | 201 |
Performance in Catullus | 233 |
Remarks on the Subsequent History of | 291 |
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Index Locorum | 339 |
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