Most of the papers in this volume derive from a workshop held at Corpus Christi College, Oxford, ... more Most of the papers in this volume derive from a workshop held at Corpus Christi College, Oxford, on Saturday 19 March 2022; we are most grateful to the conference staff of the college (especially Donna O'Sullivan) for enabling this in-person event to happen, not least after two years where such things were not possible, to the college itself for its generous research funding and to its Centre for the Study of Greek and Roman Antiquity for its academic support. We also thank those who attended the workshop and contributed to a lively discussion. We are particularly grateful to Antonios Rengakos and Franco Montanari for accepting this book for the Trends in Classics series at De Gruyter, and to all those at De Gruyter who smoothed its way to publication.
Volume pubblicato con il contributo dell'Associazione Mnemosine Atti del Convegno internazionale ... more Volume pubblicato con il contributo dell'Associazione Mnemosine Atti del Convegno internazionale Respicere, prospicere: per una morfologia del paesaggio nella Pharsalia di Lucano Palermo, 13-14 dicembre 2022 ELEONORA TOLA Hac iter est bellis (Luc. 1, 257): geopoetica del Rubicone nella Pharsalia 1. INTRODUZIONE L'indagine sulle diverse espressioni del paesaggio nella Pharsalia di Lucano presuppone una riflessione sui connotati fisico-simbolici dello spazio nel poema 1. Si tratta, infatti, di un testo "intensamente geografico" 2 le cui azioni si organizzano mediante avanzate, pause e ritirate dentro sfere più o meno reali o metaforiche. In genere, la geografia lucanea ha ricevuto una grande attenzione da parte della critica 3. Accanto agli approcci più tradizionali alle fonti geografiche in relazione alle fonti storiche della Pharsalia, si è cercato di identificarne alcune (apparenti) incongruenze topografiche 4. Più di recente, gli studiosi si sono incentrati su questioni paesaggistiche e geopolitiche del poema lucaneo 5. In particolare, i "corpi d'acqua" che dominano
CAHIERS FORELLIS, Université de Poitiers, Francia, Formes et Représentations en Linguistique, Lit... more CAHIERS FORELLIS, Université de Poitiers, Francia, Formes et Représentations en Linguistique, Littérature et dans les arts de l’Image et de la Scène [En ligne], Cahiers en ligne (depuis 2013), Réceptions plurielles des Héroïdes d’Ovide, mis à jour le : 03/02/2022, URL : https://cahiersforell.edel.univ-poitiers.fr:443/cahiersforell/index.php?id=953 (Publication en ligne le 16 février 2022)
Memory was a major issue in education and civic life in ancient Rome. It mostly preserved the cit... more Memory was a major issue in education and civic life in ancient Rome. It mostly preserved the city’s moral tradition through the imitation of exemplary behaviors within political and social interactions. Thus, memory was a pivotal feature of Roman identity, which was closely related to the regulation of power, knowledge and speech. The literary reconstructions of the later Republic’s civil wars make clear the link between memory and the collective past. Moreover, early on internal struggle became a cultural theme associated with the mythical motif of katabasis: the symbolic topography of the underworld and its traditional topoi provided useful material for the narration of social disorder. In the Neronian age, Lucan’s Bellum Ciuile exploited the foundational Roman myth of fratricide. Indeed, Lucan’s poem reshaped some martial epic topoi and the conventional underworld imagery in order to stress the horror of a historical sacrilege. This essay analyses how Lucan’s description of the battle at Pharsalus in book VII (460‒646) presents the civil war as a metaphorical deathscape. The blurring of boundaries between human and hellish spheres in the battleground aims to underline the unnatural confusion between identity and otherness (Romanus and hostis) in a military event. Lucan refuses to comply with Rome’s official, forgetful self-narrative. Instead, he gathers memories of the past and retells the city’s history from a perspective critical of Roman power. His ‘poetic journey’ into the underworld of history functions simultaneously as a metaphor for identity reconstruction and generic experimentation.
In his exilic poems Ovid shapes a crisis of his poetic identity by reifying his literary practice... more In his exilic poems Ovid shapes a crisis of his poetic identity by reifying his literary practice with some autobiographical concerns. The poet of metamorphosis metrically associated the narration of his exile to his epistolary and erotic corpus. Tristia and Ex Ponto’s intratextual connections can be read as an invitation to reaffirm the literary value of Ovid’s writing. From a stylistic approach, I show the crucial role of Ex Ponto in the study of Ovid’s dynamic of self-reception. This last collection simultaneously achieves the poet’s exilic works and his production as a whole.
From a “differential” approach to myth, I study the Theban Cycle in Book III of Ovid’s Metamorpho... more From a “differential” approach to myth, I study the Theban Cycle in Book III of Ovid’s Metamorphoses. The underlining of some poetic and ideological issues in the rewriting of that legendary story allows me to explain the literary functioning of a major cultural topic in Rome. Moreover, I show that Cadmus’ foundational legend shapes a specific pattern that mostly conveys the representations of the collective history within Latin literature.
From a stylistic approach, I argue that Ovid’s representation of chaos at the start of his Metamo... more From a stylistic approach, I argue that Ovid’s representation of chaos at the start of his Metamorphoses is a crucial poetic pattern of Lucan’s civil war narrative. Despite its philosophical and political implications, Ovid’s cosmogony functions as a reading code of Lucan’s epics through some thematic, stylistic, and symbolic echoes. The Bellum Ciuile develops the mythic concept of chaos in order to construct its version of Roman ciuile nefas. As a key model of Lucan’s poem, Ovidian primeval disorder allows, on the one hand, to deepen the diachronic manipulations of epic genre beyond its canonical debts to Vergil; on the other hand, it shows the transformations and further meanings of the carmen perpetuum outside its textual boundaries.
Most of the papers in this volume derive from a workshop held at Corpus Christi College, Oxford, ... more Most of the papers in this volume derive from a workshop held at Corpus Christi College, Oxford, on Saturday 19 March 2022; we are most grateful to the conference staff of the college (especially Donna O'Sullivan) for enabling this in-person event to happen, not least after two years where such things were not possible, to the college itself for its generous research funding and to its Centre for the Study of Greek and Roman Antiquity for its academic support. We also thank those who attended the workshop and contributed to a lively discussion. We are particularly grateful to Antonios Rengakos and Franco Montanari for accepting this book for the Trends in Classics series at De Gruyter, and to all those at De Gruyter who smoothed its way to publication.
Volume pubblicato con il contributo dell'Associazione Mnemosine Atti del Convegno internazionale ... more Volume pubblicato con il contributo dell'Associazione Mnemosine Atti del Convegno internazionale Respicere, prospicere: per una morfologia del paesaggio nella Pharsalia di Lucano Palermo, 13-14 dicembre 2022 ELEONORA TOLA Hac iter est bellis (Luc. 1, 257): geopoetica del Rubicone nella Pharsalia 1. INTRODUZIONE L'indagine sulle diverse espressioni del paesaggio nella Pharsalia di Lucano presuppone una riflessione sui connotati fisico-simbolici dello spazio nel poema 1. Si tratta, infatti, di un testo "intensamente geografico" 2 le cui azioni si organizzano mediante avanzate, pause e ritirate dentro sfere più o meno reali o metaforiche. In genere, la geografia lucanea ha ricevuto una grande attenzione da parte della critica 3. Accanto agli approcci più tradizionali alle fonti geografiche in relazione alle fonti storiche della Pharsalia, si è cercato di identificarne alcune (apparenti) incongruenze topografiche 4. Più di recente, gli studiosi si sono incentrati su questioni paesaggistiche e geopolitiche del poema lucaneo 5. In particolare, i "corpi d'acqua" che dominano
CAHIERS FORELLIS, Université de Poitiers, Francia, Formes et Représentations en Linguistique, Lit... more CAHIERS FORELLIS, Université de Poitiers, Francia, Formes et Représentations en Linguistique, Littérature et dans les arts de l’Image et de la Scène [En ligne], Cahiers en ligne (depuis 2013), Réceptions plurielles des Héroïdes d’Ovide, mis à jour le : 03/02/2022, URL : https://cahiersforell.edel.univ-poitiers.fr:443/cahiersforell/index.php?id=953 (Publication en ligne le 16 février 2022)
Memory was a major issue in education and civic life in ancient Rome. It mostly preserved the cit... more Memory was a major issue in education and civic life in ancient Rome. It mostly preserved the city’s moral tradition through the imitation of exemplary behaviors within political and social interactions. Thus, memory was a pivotal feature of Roman identity, which was closely related to the regulation of power, knowledge and speech. The literary reconstructions of the later Republic’s civil wars make clear the link between memory and the collective past. Moreover, early on internal struggle became a cultural theme associated with the mythical motif of katabasis: the symbolic topography of the underworld and its traditional topoi provided useful material for the narration of social disorder. In the Neronian age, Lucan’s Bellum Ciuile exploited the foundational Roman myth of fratricide. Indeed, Lucan’s poem reshaped some martial epic topoi and the conventional underworld imagery in order to stress the horror of a historical sacrilege. This essay analyses how Lucan’s description of the battle at Pharsalus in book VII (460‒646) presents the civil war as a metaphorical deathscape. The blurring of boundaries between human and hellish spheres in the battleground aims to underline the unnatural confusion between identity and otherness (Romanus and hostis) in a military event. Lucan refuses to comply with Rome’s official, forgetful self-narrative. Instead, he gathers memories of the past and retells the city’s history from a perspective critical of Roman power. His ‘poetic journey’ into the underworld of history functions simultaneously as a metaphor for identity reconstruction and generic experimentation.
In his exilic poems Ovid shapes a crisis of his poetic identity by reifying his literary practice... more In his exilic poems Ovid shapes a crisis of his poetic identity by reifying his literary practice with some autobiographical concerns. The poet of metamorphosis metrically associated the narration of his exile to his epistolary and erotic corpus. Tristia and Ex Ponto’s intratextual connections can be read as an invitation to reaffirm the literary value of Ovid’s writing. From a stylistic approach, I show the crucial role of Ex Ponto in the study of Ovid’s dynamic of self-reception. This last collection simultaneously achieves the poet’s exilic works and his production as a whole.
From a “differential” approach to myth, I study the Theban Cycle in Book III of Ovid’s Metamorpho... more From a “differential” approach to myth, I study the Theban Cycle in Book III of Ovid’s Metamorphoses. The underlining of some poetic and ideological issues in the rewriting of that legendary story allows me to explain the literary functioning of a major cultural topic in Rome. Moreover, I show that Cadmus’ foundational legend shapes a specific pattern that mostly conveys the representations of the collective history within Latin literature.
From a stylistic approach, I argue that Ovid’s representation of chaos at the start of his Metamo... more From a stylistic approach, I argue that Ovid’s representation of chaos at the start of his Metamorphoses is a crucial poetic pattern of Lucan’s civil war narrative. Despite its philosophical and political implications, Ovid’s cosmogony functions as a reading code of Lucan’s epics through some thematic, stylistic, and symbolic echoes. The Bellum Ciuile develops the mythic concept of chaos in order to construct its version of Roman ciuile nefas. As a key model of Lucan’s poem, Ovidian primeval disorder allows, on the one hand, to deepen the diachronic manipulations of epic genre beyond its canonical debts to Vergil; on the other hand, it shows the transformations and further meanings of the carmen perpetuum outside its textual boundaries.
Caraïbe : deux archipélités culturelles ouvertes. 9h30 : Mohamed Lamine RHIMI, Université de Tuni... more Caraïbe : deux archipélités culturelles ouvertes. 9h30 : Mohamed Lamine RHIMI, Université de Tunis, La « pensée excentrée » d'Édouard Glissant : une résonance particulière de la tunisianité dans sa poétique « archipélique ».
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of Ovid’s writing. From a stylistic approach, I show the crucial role of Ex Ponto in the study of Ovid’s dynamic of self-reception. This last collection simultaneously achieves the poet’s exilic works and his production as a whole.
Moreover, I show that Cadmus’ foundational legend shapes a specific pattern that mostly conveys the representations of the collective history within Latin literature.
Keywords: Ovid; Lucan; Chaos; Poetics.
of Ovid’s writing. From a stylistic approach, I show the crucial role of Ex Ponto in the study of Ovid’s dynamic of self-reception. This last collection simultaneously achieves the poet’s exilic works and his production as a whole.
Moreover, I show that Cadmus’ foundational legend shapes a specific pattern that mostly conveys the representations of the collective history within Latin literature.
Keywords: Ovid; Lucan; Chaos; Poetics.