The collected papers in this volume, many of them previously unpublished, demonstrate the politcial character of Roman tragedy and show that, during the Imperial period, panegyrics often shifted to opposition.

One of the principal dilemmas for scholars of Roman comedy is demonstrating its originality compared to its (sometimes lost) Greek forebears. In 30 papers written between 1973 and 2013, ten of them previously unpublished, the author uses close analysis of the works of Plautus and Terence to reveal each dramatist s unique style of dramaturgy and at times utopian worldview and expands our understanding of so-called Greek new comedy."

The renowned Roman politician, Pliny the Younger (c. AD 61-112), was a versatile and productive author, from whom 9 books of letters, an exchange of letters with Trajan and an extensive panegyric for the same emperor are extant. The individual letters of books 1-9 are artistically composed and for the most part deal with general matters, for example the decline of individual freedom and the situation of literature during the Principate. The humane attitude of the author towards women and slaves is new, as is his active aesthetic interest in architecture and landscape.

In this volume 22 contributions by German and Italian scholars deal with a variety of aspects of Petroniusa (TM) Satyricon: historical and cultural context; rhetoric and linguistics; narrative; art; reception. The last of these sectionsincludes a critical edition as well as an interpretation of the philosopher Leibniza (TM)s reports on the performance of the Cena Trimlachionis at the court of Hanover.

Der Band enthAlt 21 BeitrAge deutscher und italienischer Gelehrter zu den Briefen und dem Panegyricus des jA1/4ngeren Plinius, die durch genaue Interpretationen versuchen, die Gedankenwelt dieses ReprAsentanten an der Wende vom 1. zum 2. Jh. n. Chr. unter den verschiedensten Gesichtspunkten (Literatur, Rhetorik, A"sthetik, Gesellschaft, Wirtschaft, Politik und Rezeption) in das Denken der RAmer seiner Zeit einzuordnen.