Christa GRAY, Andrea BALBO, Richard M.A. MARSHALL, Catherine E.W. STEEL (eds.), Reading Republican Oratory. Reconstructions, Contexts, Receptions, Oxford University Press, Oxford., 2018
Macrobius' Saturnalia preserves a much-admired fragment of the second-century BC orator Gaius Tit... more Macrobius' Saturnalia preserves a much-admired fragment of the second-century BC orator Gaius Titius which depicts a group of Roman jurors as dice-addicted, perfume-drenched, whore-mobbed, drunken scoundrels who shirk their judicial duties (Sat. 3.16.15–16 = ORF 4 51 F2). 1 The passage's vivid depiction of emptying bladders, hungry stomachs, and drooping eyelids has a bracingly messy corporeality that stands in stark contrast to much fragmentary Republican Roman oratory, where the body and its (mis)functions are scarcely to be found.
Letteratura e Civitas: Transizioni dalla Repubblica all'Impero. In ricordo di Emanuele Narducci, edited by M. Citroni (Edizioni ETS, Pisa, 2012), 119-128., 2012
Christa GRAY, Andrea BALBO, Richard M.A. MARSHALL, Catherine E.W. STEEL (eds.), Reading Republican Oratory. Reconstructions, Contexts, Receptions, Oxford University Press, Oxford., 2018
Macrobius' Saturnalia preserves a much-admired fragment of the second-century BC orator Gaius Tit... more Macrobius' Saturnalia preserves a much-admired fragment of the second-century BC orator Gaius Titius which depicts a group of Roman jurors as dice-addicted, perfume-drenched, whore-mobbed, drunken scoundrels who shirk their judicial duties (Sat. 3.16.15–16 = ORF 4 51 F2). 1 The passage's vivid depiction of emptying bladders, hungry stomachs, and drooping eyelids has a bracingly messy corporeality that stands in stark contrast to much fragmentary Republican Roman oratory, where the body and its (mis)functions are scarcely to be found.
Letteratura e Civitas: Transizioni dalla Repubblica all'Impero. In ricordo di Emanuele Narducci, edited by M. Citroni (Edizioni ETS, Pisa, 2012), 119-128., 2012
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