The fractured voice : silence and power in imperial Roman literature

Author(s)

• Koenig, Amy A.

Bibliographic Information

The fractured voice : silence and power in imperial Roman literature

Amy A. Koenig

（Wisconsin studies in classics）

The University of Wisconsin Press, c2024

Note

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

• NCID: BD06996858
• ISBN:
  • 9780299345303
• LCCN: 2023015839
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Madison, Wisconsin
• Pages/Volumes: vii, 219 p.
• Size: 24 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : PA3015.S52
  • DC23 : 880.09
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Classical literature -- History and criticism
  • LCSH : Latin literature -- History and criticism
  • LCSH : Silence in literature
  • LCSH : Mutism in literature
  • LCSH : Mute persons in literature
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA00382261