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Worthless wastrels: Prodigals and prodigality in classical antiquity (Greece, Roman Republic, Roman Empire).

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Worthless wastrels: Prodigals and prodigality in classical antiquity (Greece, Roman Republic, Roman Empire)./
Author:	Muse, Kevin Brian.
Description:	351 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 64-11, Section: A, page: 4039.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International64-11A.
Subject:	Literature, Classical. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3112055
ISBN:	0496595850

Worthless wastrels: Prodigals and prodigality in classical antiquity (Greece, Roman Republic, Roman Empire).
Muse, Kevin Brian.

Worthless wastrels: Prodigals and prodigality in classical antiquity (Greece, Roman Republic, Roman Empire). - 351 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 64-11, Section: A, page: 4039.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2003.

The purpose of this dissertation is to elucidate the complex and pervasive concept of prodigality in the literatures of ancient Greece and Rome. Chapter one is devoted to the lives of two famous prodigals, the Athenian aristocrat Callias and the Roman gourmand Apicius. The second chapter is an analysis of the extensive network of Greek and Latin vocabulary pertaining to prodigality. General terms for "prodigal" and "prodigality" are discussed first, followed by a study of the Latin word nepos. The remaining words are categorized according to the metaphors of waste they imply (e.g. "eating," "destroying," and "pouring out" money). Chapter three examines some of the major topoi that define prodigality. Two types of motifs are distinguished. Background motifs are moral concerns that accompany the topoi of prodigality, such as the antitheses between country and city, old and new, native and foreign, and the upper and lower classes. Foreground motifs are the traits and activities directly associated with prodigals, including sexual excess, gluttony, gambling, and luxuries such as expensive houses, horses and dogs, and intellectual and artistic pursuits. The chapter closes with the prodigal's end in parasitism, poverty, and death. Chapter four looks at prodigality in the familial context as portrayed in comedy, philosophical treatises, and declamations. The conception of prodigality as a normal characteristic of the young and an abnormal trait in the old is the focus, with particular attention given to the adulescens and senex luxuriosus of comedy. Chapter five explores the extensive and complex incorporation of the topoi of prodigality within historical writing and oratory, and focuses on portrayals of Alcibiades, Timarchus, Catiline, and Antony. Prodigality is found to play an important role in explanations of corruption, political unrest, and revolution. Chapter six is a study of legal measures designed to curtail prodigality in both the Greek and Roman worlds, and includes a detailed discussion of the Roman guardianship known as the cura prodigi. The final chapter deals with the relationship between prodigality and mental illness. Special emphasis is placed on comparing the modern diagnosis of manic-depressive illness with probable examples of the disease in ancient sources.

ISBN: 0496595850Subjects--Topical Terms:

1017779
Literature, Classical.

Worthless wastrels: Prodigals and prodigality in classical antiquity (Greece, Roman Republic, Roman Empire).
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