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Sacrifice and ritual imagery in Menander, Plautus, and Terence.

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Sacrifice and ritual imagery in Menander, Plautus, and Terence./
Author:	Gellar, Theodore Harry McMillan.
Description:	199 p.
Notes:	Adviser: Sharon L. James.
Contained By:	Masters Abstracts International47-02.
Subject:	Literature, Classical. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=1457620
ISBN:	9780549880295

Sacrifice and ritual imagery in Menander, Plautus, and Terence.
Gellar, Theodore Harry McMillan.

Sacrifice and ritual imagery in Menander, Plautus, and Terence. - 199 p.

Adviser: Sharon L. James.

Thesis (M.A.)--The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2008.

This thesis offers a systematic analysis of sacrifice and ritual in New Comedy. Sacrifice normally signifies a healthy community, often celebrating a family reunification. Menander, Plautus, and Terence treat sacrifice remarkably, each in a different way. In Menander, sacrifice seals the formation of healthy citizen marriages; in Plautus, it operates to negotiate theatrical power between characters. When characters use sacrificial imagery, they are essentially asserting authority over other characters or agency over the play. Both playwrights mark habitual sacrificers, particularly citizen females, as morally upright. Terence, by contrast, stunningly withholds sacrifice altogether, to underscore the emotional dysfunction among the citizen classes in his plays.

ISBN: 9780549880295Subjects--Topical Terms:

1017779
Literature, Classical.

Sacrifice and ritual imagery in Menander, Plautus, and Terence.
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520 $a This thesis offers a systematic analysis of sacrifice and ritual in New Comedy. Sacrifice normally signifies a healthy community, often celebrating a family reunification. Menander, Plautus, and Terence treat sacrifice remarkably, each in a different way. In Menander, sacrifice seals the formation of healthy citizen marriages; in Plautus, it operates to negotiate theatrical power between characters. When characters use sacrificial imagery, they are essentially asserting authority over other characters or agency over the play. Both playwrights mark habitual sacrificers, particularly citizen females, as morally upright. Terence, by contrast, stunningly withholds sacrifice altogether, to underscore the emotional dysfunction among the citizen classes in his plays.
520 $a Chapter 1 sets sacrifice in its historical and theatrical context. Chapter 2 considers how sacrifice might have been presented onstage; chapter 3 examines its theatrical functions. Chapter 4 focuses on gender and status issues, and chapter 5 moves out from sacrifice to ritual and religion overall.
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