| 1. Euripides, Phoenician Women, 344-461, 463-558, 462 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •nan Found in books: Csapo et al., Theatre and Autocracy in the Ancient World (2022) 170 |
2. Demosthenes, Orations, 19.192-19.195 (4th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •menander (comic poet) •menander (comic poet), portraits of Found in books: Csapo et al., Theatre and Autocracy in the Ancient World (2022) 4 | 19.192. To show you, then, that these men are the basest and most depraved of all Philip’s visitors, private as well as official,—yes, of all of them,—let me tell you a trifling story that has nothing to do with the embassy. After Philip had taken Olynthus, he was holding Olympian games, Not the great Olympian Games of Elis, but a Macedonian festival held at Dium. The date is probably the spring of 347 B.C. and had invited all sorts of artists to the religious celebration and the festival. 19.193. At the entertainment at which he crowned the successful competitors, he asked Satyrus, the comedian of our city, why he was the only guest who had not asked any favor; had he observed in him any illiberality or discourtesy towards himself? Satyrus, as the story goes, replied that he did not want any such gift as the others were asking; what he would like to ask was a favor which Philip could grant quite easily, and yet he feared that his request would be unsuccessful. 19.194. Philip bade him speak out, declaring with the easy generosity of youth that there was nothing he would not do for him. Thereupon Satyrus told him that Apollophanes of Pydna had been a friend of his, and that after his death by assassination his kinsmen in alarm had secretly removed his daughters, who were then children, to Olynthus . These girls had been made captive when the town was taken, and were now in Philip’s hands, and of marriageable age. 19.195. I earnestly beg you, he went on, to bestow them on me. At the same time I wish you to understand what sort of gift you will be giving me, if you do give it. It will bring me no gain, for I shall provide them with dowries and give them in marriage; and I shall not permit them to suffer any treatment unworthy of myself or of their father. It is said that, when the other guests heard this speech, there was such an outburst of applause and approval that Philip was strongly moved, and granted the boon. And yet Apollophanes was one of the men who had slain Philip’s own brother Alexander. |
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| 3. Astydamas Tragicus, Fragments, t 2a (4th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •menander (comic poet), statue in athens Found in books: Csapo et al., Theatre and Autocracy in the Ancient World (2022) 149 |
| 4. Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics, 1166a32-33 (4th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •menander (comic poet), androgynos Found in books: Csapo et al., Theatre and Autocracy in the Ancient World (2022) 170 |
| 5. Theocritus, Epigrams, 18 (4th cent. BCE - 3rd cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •menander (comic poet) •menander (comic poet), pompeii, casa del medro •menander (comic poet), portraits of Found in books: Csapo et al., Theatre and Autocracy in the Ancient World (2022) 157 |
| 6. Praxiphanes of Mytilene, Fragments, 21 (4th cent. BCE - 3rd cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •menander (comic poet) •menander (comic poet), portraits of Found in books: Csapo et al., Theatre and Autocracy in the Ancient World (2022) 4 |
| 7. Cicero, Pro Sestio, 115 (2nd cent. BCE - 1st cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •menander (comic poet) Found in books: Csapo et al., Theatre and Autocracy in the Ancient World (2022) 88 |
8. Horace, Sermones, 1.1 (1st cent. BCE - 1st cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •menander (comic poet) •menander (comic poet), and sententiae Found in books: Csapo et al., Theatre and Autocracy in the Ancient World (2022) 155 | 1.1. 1. I suppose that, by my books of the Antiquities of the Jews, most excellent Epaphroditus, I have made it evident to those who peruse them, that our Jewish nation is of very great antiquity, and had a distinct subsistence of its own originally; as also I have therein declared how we came to inhabit this country wherein we now live. Those Antiquities contain the history of five thousand years, and are taken out of our sacred books; but are translated by me into the Greek tongue. 1.1. but as for the place where the Grecians inhabit, ten thousand destructions have overtaken it, and blotted out the memory of former actions; so that they were ever beginning a new way of living, and supposed that every one of them was the origin of their new state. It was also late, and with difficulty, that they came to know the letters they now use; for those who would advance their use of these letters to the greatest antiquity pretend that they learned them from the Phoenicians and from Cadmus; 1.1. but after some considerable time, Armais, who was left in Egypt, did all those very things, by way of opposition, which his brother had forbidden him to do, without fear; for he used violence to the queen, and continued to make use of the rest of the concubines, without sparing any of them; nay, at the persuasion of his friends he put on the diadem, and set up to oppose his brother; |
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9. Strabo, Geography, 5.4.7 (1st cent. BCE - 1st cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •menander (comic poet) Found in books: Csapo et al., Theatre and Autocracy in the Ancient World (2022) 97 | 5.4.7. After Dicaearchia is Neapolis, a city of the Cumaeans. At a later time it was re-colonised by Chalcidians, and also by some Pithecussaeans and Athenians, and hence, for this reason, was called Neapolis. A monument of Parthenope, one of the Sirens, is pointed out in Neapolis, and in accordance with an oracle a gymnastic contest is celebrated there. But at a still later time, as the result of a dissension, they admitted some of the Campani as fellow-inhabitants, and thus they were forced to treat their worst enemies as their best friends, now that they had alienated their proper friends. This is disclosed by the names of their demarchs, for the earliest names are Greek only, whereas the later are Greek mixed with Campanian. And very many traces of Greek culture are preserved there — gymnasia, ephebeia, phratriae, and Greek names of things, although the people are Romans. And at the present time a sacred contest is celebrated among them every four years, in music as well as gymnastics; it lasts for several days, and vies with the pmost famous of those celebrated in Greece. Here, too, there is a tunnel — the mountain between Dicaearchia and Neapolis having been tunneled like the one leading to Cumae, and a road having been opened up for a distance of many stadia that is wide enough to allow teams going in opposite directions to pass each other. And windows have been cut out at many places, and thus the light of day is brought down from the surface of the mountain along shafts that are of considerable depth. Furthermore, Neapolis has springs of hot water and bathing-establishments that are not inferior to those at Baiae, although it is far short of Baiae in the number of people, for at Baiae, where palace on palace has been built, one after another, a new city has arisen, not inferior to Dicaearchia. And greater vogue is given to the Greek mode of life at Neapolis by the people who withdraw thither from Rome for the sake of rest — I mean the class who have made their livelihood by training the young, or still others who, because of old age or infirmity, long to live in relaxation; and some of the Romans, too, taking delight in this way of living and observing the great number of men of the same culture as themselves sojourning there, gladly fall in love with the place and make it their permanent abode. |
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| 10. Ovid, Tristia, 3.1.71-3.1.72 (1st cent. BCE - 1st cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •menander (comic poet) •menander (comic poet), pompeii, casa del medro •menander (comic poet), portraits of Found in books: Csapo et al., Theatre and Autocracy in the Ancient World (2022) 157 |
| 11. Nepos, Atticus, 18.6 (1st cent. BCE - 1st cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •menander (comic poet) •menander (comic poet), pompeii, casa del medro •menander (comic poet), portraits of Found in books: Csapo et al., Theatre and Autocracy in the Ancient World (2022) 157 |
| 12. Plutarch, On The Fortune Or Virtue of Alexander The Great, 334e (1st cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •menander (comic poet) •menander (comic poet), portraits of Found in books: Csapo et al., Theatre and Autocracy in the Ancient World (2022) 4 |
| 13. Plutarch, Brutus, 29.6 (1st cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •menander (comic poet) •menander (comic poet), portraits of Found in books: Csapo et al., Theatre and Autocracy in the Ancient World (2022) 4 |
14. Suetonius, Iulius, 44 (1st cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •menander (comic poet) •menander (comic poet), pompeii, casa del medro •menander (comic poet), portraits of Found in books: Csapo et al., Theatre and Autocracy in the Ancient World (2022) 157 | 44. In particular, for the adornment and convenience of the city, also for the protection and extension of the Empire, he formed more projects and more extensive ones every day: first of all, to rear a temple of Mars, greater than any in existence, filling up and levelling the pool in which he had exhibited the sea-fight, and to build a theatre of vast size, sloping down from the Tarpeian rock;, to reduce the civil code to fixed limits, and of the vast and prolix mass of statutes to include only the best and most essential in a limited number of volumes; to open to the public the greatest possible libraries of Greek and Latin books, assigning to Marcus Varro the charge of procuring and classifying them;, to drain the Pomptine marshes; to let out the water from Lake Fucinus; to make a highway from the Adriatic across the summit of the Apennines as far as the Tiber; to cut a canal through the Isthmus; to check the Dacians, who had poured into Pontus and Thrace; then to make war on the Parthians by way of Lesser Armenia, but not to risk a battle with them until he had first tested their mettle., All these enterprises and plans were cut short by his death. But before I speak of that, it will not be amiss to describe briefly his personal appearance, his dress, his mode of life, and his character, as well as his conduct in civil and military life. |
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| 15. Artemidorus, Oneirocritica, 1.26 (1st cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •menander (comic poet) Found in books: Csapo et al., Theatre and Autocracy in the Ancient World (2022) 110 |
16. Suetonius, Augustus, 29.5, 89.1 (1st cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •nan Found in books: Csapo et al., Theatre and Autocracy in the Ancient World (2022) 97, 157 | 29.5. And many such works were built at that time by many men; for example, the temple of Hercules and the Muses by Marcius Philippus, the temple of Diana by Lucius Cornificius, the Hall of Liberty by Asinius Pollio, the temple of Saturn by Munatius Plancus, a theatre by Cornelius Balbus, an amphitheatre by Statilius Taurus, and by Marcus Agrippa in particular many magnificent structures. 30 89.1. He was equally interested in Greek studies, and in these too he excelled greatly. His teacher of declamation was Apollodorus of Pergamon, whom he even took with him in his youthful days from Rome to Apollonia, though Apollodorus was an old man at the time. Later he became versed in various forms of learning through association with the philosopher Areus and his sons Dionysius and Nicanor. Yet he never acquired the ability to speak Greek fluently or to compose anything in it; for if he had occasion to use the language, he wrote what he had to say in Latin and gave it to someone else to translate. Still he was far from being ignorant of Greek poetry, even taking pleasure in the Old Comedy and frequently staging it at his public entertainments. |
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| 17. Plutarch, Lives of The Ten Orators, 837d (1st cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •menander (comic poet) •menander (comic poet), pompeii, casa del medro •menander (comic poet), portraits of Found in books: Csapo et al., Theatre and Autocracy in the Ancient World (2022) 157 |
| 18. Suetonius, Tiberius, 6.4 (1st cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •menander (comic poet) Found in books: Csapo et al., Theatre and Autocracy in the Ancient World (2022) 97 |
19. Pliny The Elder, Natural History, 7.115, 35.9-35.11 (1st cent. CE - 1st cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •menander (comic poet) •menander (comic poet), pompeii, casa del medro •menander (comic poet), portraits of Found in books: Csapo et al., Theatre and Autocracy in the Ancient World (2022) 157 | 35.9. But it was the Dictator Caesar who gave outstanding public importance to pictures by dedicating paintings of Ajax and Medea in front of the temple of Venus Genetrix; and after him Marcus Agrippa, a man who stood nearer to rustic simplicity than to refinements. At all events there is preserved a speech of Agrippa, lofty in tone and worthy of the greatest of the citizens, on the question of making all pictures and statues national property, a procedure which would have been preferable to banishing them to country houses. However, that same severe spirit paid the city of Cyzicus 1,200,000 sesterces for two pictures, an Ajax and an Aphrodite; he had also had small paintings let into the marble even in the warmest part of his hot baths; which were removed a short time ago when the Baths were being repaired. 35.10. His late lamented Majesty Augustus went beyond all others, in placing two pictures in the most frequented part of his Forum, one with a likeness of War and Triumph, and one with the Castors and Victory. He also erected in the Temple of his father Caesar pictures we shall specify in giving the names of artists. He likewise let into a wall in the curia which he was dedicating in the Comitium: a Nemea seated on a lion, holding a palm-branch in her hand, and standing at her side an old man leaning on a stick and with a picture of a two-horse chariot hung up over his head, on which there was an inscription saying that it was an encaustic design — such is the term which he employed — by Nicias. The second picture is remarkable for displaying the close family likeness between a son in the prime of life and an elderly father, allowing for the difference of age: above them soars an eagle with a snake in its claws; Philochares has stated this work to be by him showing the immeasurable power exercised by art if one merely considers this picture alone, inasmuch as thanks to Philochares two otherwise quite obscure persons Glaucio and his son Aristippus after all these centuries have passed still stand in the view of the senate of the Roman nation! The most ungracious emperor Tiberius also placed pictures in the temple of Augustus himself which we shall soon mention. Thus much for the dignity of this now expiring art. 35.11. We stated what were the various single colours used by the first painters when we were discussing while on the subject of metals the pigments called monochromes from the class of painting for which they are used. Subsequent a inventions and their authors and dates we shall specify in enumerating the artists, because a prior motive for the work now in hand is to indicate the nature of colours. Eventually art differentiated itself, and discovered light and shade, contrast of colours heightening their effect reciprocally. Then came the final adjunct of shine, quite a different thing from light. The opposition between shine and light on the one hand and shade on the other was called contrast, while the juxtaposition of colours and their passage one into another was termed attunement. |
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| 20. Pliny The Younger, Letters, 4.28 (2nd cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •menander (comic poet) •menander (comic poet), pompeii, casa del medro •menander (comic poet), portraits of Found in books: Csapo et al., Theatre and Autocracy in the Ancient World (2022) 157 |
21. Cassius Dio, Roman History, 59.5 (2nd cent. CE - 3rd cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •menander (comic poet) •menander (comic poet), androgynos •menander (comic poet), pompeii, casa del medro •menander (comic poet), and sententiae •menander (comic poet), double herm with homer •menander (comic poet), mosaic in antioch •menander (comic poet), portraits of •menander (comic poet), reception of •menander (comic poet), statue base in eretria •menander (comic poet), statue in athens Found in books: Csapo et al., Theatre and Autocracy in the Ancient World (2022) 149, 155, 156, 157, 160, 161, 162, 170 | 59.5. This was the kind of emperor into whose hands the Romans were then delivered. Hence the deeds of Tiberius, though they were felt to have been very harsh, were nevertheless as far superior to those of Gaius as the deeds of Augustus were to those of his successor., For Tiberius always kept the power in his own hands and used others as agents for carrying out his wishes; whereas Gaius was ruled by the charioteers and gladiators, and was the slave of the actors and others connected with the stage. Indeed, he always kept Apelles, the most famous of the tragedians of that day, with him even in public., Thus he by himself and they by themselves did without let or hindrance all that such persons would naturally dare to do when given power. Everything that pertained to their art he arranged and settled on the slightest pretext in the most lavish manner, and he compelled the praetors and the consuls to do the same, so that almost every day some performance of the kind was sure to be given., At first he was but a spectator and listener at these and would take sides for or against various performers like one of the crowd; and one time, when he was vexed with those of opposing tastes, he did not go to the spectacle. But as time went on, he came to imitate, and to contend in many events,, driving chariots, fighting as a gladiator, giving exhibitions of pantomimic dancing, and acting in tragedy. So much for his regular behaviour. And once he sent an urgent summons at night to the leading men of the senate, as if for some important deliberation, and then danced before them. < 59.5. 1. This was the kind of emperor into whose hands the Romans were then delivered. Hence the deeds of Tiberius, though they were felt to have been very harsh, were nevertheless as far superior to those of Gaius as the deeds of Augustus were to those of his successor.,2. For Tiberius always kept the power in his own hands and used others as agents for carrying out his wishes; whereas Gaius was ruled by the charioteers and gladiators, and was the slave of the actors and others connected with the stage. Indeed, he always kept Apelles, the most famous of the tragedians of that day, with him even in public.,3. Thus he by himself and they by themselves did without let or hindrance all that such persons would naturally dare to do when given power. Everything that pertained to their art he arranged and settled on the slightest pretext in the most lavish manner, and he compelled the praetors and the consuls to do the same, so that almost every day some performance of the kind was sure to be given.,4. At first he was but a spectator and listener at these and would take sides for or against various performers like one of the crowd; and one time, when he was vexed with those of opposing tastes, he did not go to the spectacle. But as time went on, he came to imitate, and to contend in many events,,5. driving chariots, fighting as a gladiator, giving exhibitions of pantomimic dancing, and acting in tragedy. So much for his regular behaviour. And once he sent an urgent summons at night to the leading men of the senate, as if for some important deliberation, and then danced before them. < |
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| 22. Scriptores Historiae Augustae, Hadrian, 19.6, 26.4 (4th cent. CE - 5th cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •menander (comic poet) Found in books: Csapo et al., Theatre and Autocracy in the Ancient World (2022) 110 |
| 23. Sidonius Apollinaris, Letters, 9.9.14 (5th cent. CE - 5th cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •menander (comic poet) •menander (comic poet), pompeii, casa del medro •menander (comic poet), portraits of Found in books: Csapo et al., Theatre and Autocracy in the Ancient World (2022) 157 |
| 24. Isidore of Seville, Etymologies, 6.5.1-6.5.2 (6th cent. CE - 7th cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •menander (comic poet) •menander (comic poet), pompeii, casa del medro •menander (comic poet), portraits of Found in books: Csapo et al., Theatre and Autocracy in the Ancient World (2022) 157 |
| 25. Isidore of Seville, Origines (Etymologiarum), 6.5 (6th cent. CE - 7th cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •menander (comic poet) •menander (comic poet), pompeii, casa del medro •menander (comic poet), portraits of Found in books: Csapo et al., Theatre and Autocracy in the Ancient World (2022) 157 |
| 26. Epigraphy, Roesch, Ithesp, 358 Tagged with subjects: •menander (comic poet) •menander (comic poet), androgynos •menander (comic poet), pompeii, casa del medro •menander (comic poet), and sententiae •menander (comic poet), double herm with homer •menander (comic poet), mosaic in antioch •menander (comic poet), portraits of •menander (comic poet), reception of •menander (comic poet), statue base in eretria •menander (comic poet), statue in athens Found in books: Csapo et al., Theatre and Autocracy in the Ancient World (2022) 149, 155, 156, 157, 160, 161, 162, 170 |
| 27. Epigraphy, Magnesia, 192 Tagged with subjects: •menander (comic poet) Found in books: Csapo et al., Theatre and Autocracy in the Ancient World (2022) 110 |
| 28. Euripides, Trgf Fr., 48 Tagged with subjects: •menander (comic poet) •menander (comic poet), and sententiae Found in books: Csapo et al., Theatre and Autocracy in the Ancient World (2022) 155 |
| 29. Favorinus, De Exil., 7.2-7.3 Tagged with subjects: •menander (comic poet), androgynos Found in books: Csapo et al., Theatre and Autocracy in the Ancient World (2022) 170 |
| 30. Marcellinus, Hist., 29-30 Tagged with subjects: •nan Found in books: Csapo et al., Theatre and Autocracy in the Ancient World (2022) 4 |
| 31. Epigraphy, Ig Ii2, 4265, 4264 Tagged with subjects: •nan Found in books: Csapo et al., Theatre and Autocracy in the Ancient World (2022) 156 |
| 32. Epigraphy, Cil, 14.2647-14.2651 Tagged with subjects: •menander (comic poet) •menander (comic poet), pompeii, casa del medro •menander (comic poet), portraits of Found in books: Csapo et al., Theatre and Autocracy in the Ancient World (2022) 157 |
| 33. Papyri, P.Oxy., 5203 Tagged with subjects: •menander (comic poet), androgynos Found in books: Csapo et al., Theatre and Autocracy in the Ancient World (2022) 170 |
| 34. Stobaeus, Eclogues, 4.8.3, 4.19.4 Tagged with subjects: •menander (comic poet) •menander (comic poet), and sententiae Found in books: Csapo et al., Theatre and Autocracy in the Ancient World (2022) 88, 155 |
| 35. Photius, Bibliotheca (Library, Bibl.), 502.21 Tagged with subjects: •menander (comic poet), statue in athens Found in books: Csapo et al., Theatre and Autocracy in the Ancient World (2022) 149 |
| 36. Various, Anthologia Palatina, 9.600 Tagged with subjects: •menander (comic poet) •menander (comic poet), pompeii, casa del medro •menander (comic poet), portraits of Found in books: Csapo et al., Theatre and Autocracy in the Ancient World (2022) 157 |
| 37. Epigraphy, Ig, 12.9.280 Tagged with subjects: •menander (comic poet), mosaic in antioch •menander (comic poet), portraits of •menander (comic poet), reception of •menander (comic poet), statue base in eretria Found in books: Csapo et al., Theatre and Autocracy in the Ancient World (2022) 160 |
| 38. Epigraphy, Seg, 33.770 Tagged with subjects: •menander (comic poet) Found in books: Csapo et al., Theatre and Autocracy in the Ancient World (2022) 110 |
| 39. Epigraphy, Ivo, 56 Tagged with subjects: •menander (comic poet) Found in books: Csapo et al., Theatre and Autocracy in the Ancient World (2022) 97 |
