The fractured voice : silence and power in imperial Roman literature
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The fractured voice : silence and power in imperial Roman literature
(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