The fractured voice : silence and power in imperial Roman literature

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    • Koenig, Amy A.

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The fractured voice : silence and power in imperial Roman literature

Amy A. Koenig

(Wisconsin studies in classics)

The University of Wisconsin Press, c2024

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Includes bibliographical references (p193-208) and indexes

Contents of Works

  • Introduction: The tongueless nightingale
  • The embodied voice: conflict and constraint in Galen's writings
  • The mute goddess: speechlessness, divinity, and power in Ovid's Fasti
  • The dancer's silence: Ovidian myths of the voice and Roman pantomime
  • The instrument of the voice: body, voice, and music in the "Second Sophistic" Greek novels
  • Nova vox: (re)gaining a voice in the ass novels
  • Epilogue: Mea lingua Christus: muteness and martyrdom

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