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Beyond Michel Foucault, Beyond Peter Brown: What Did Early Christianity Destroy? Arethusa (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2024-08-03 Simon Goldhill
Abstract: This article argues that the focus on sexuality and the body in early Christianity, prompted by the seminal work of Peter Brown and Michel Foucault, has obscured a truly major and profound shift brought about by Christian thinking in late antiquity. This concerns the very construction and evaluation of the notion of nature and the natural world. It is well known that Greek and Roman thinking
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The Socioeconomics of Fabrication: Textuality, Authenticity, and Social Status in the Roman Mediterranean Arethusa (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2024-08-03 Jeremiah Coogan, Candida R. Moss, Joseph A. Howley
Abstract: This article analyses the figure of the "fabricator" within the complex ancient discourses that produce and limit authorial status. We map Roman discourses of textual fabrication in three distinct yet intersecting deployments: the fabrication of documents, the fabrication of texts, and the fabrication of meaning. A wide range of sources from the high Roman empire illuminate how elites used
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Δημοβόρος Βασιλεύς: People-Devouring Kings in the Political Cosmologies of Archaic Greece and Vedic India Arethusa (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2024-08-03 Ethan Drake Johnson
Abstract: This paper compares two passages which depict mythological figures as people-eating kings. The first, in Homeric Greek, depicts Agamemnon as a "people-devourer," δημοβόρος (Il. 1.231); the second, in Vedic Sanskrit, depicts Indra as a "people-eater," janabhakṣá (Ṛgveda 2.21.3). I attempt to show that, while different in important respects, these two passages can be meaningfully compared,
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Helen and Trauma Narrative in the Iliad Arethusa (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2024-08-03 Caroline Murphy-Racette
Abstract: This paper uses research in trauma studies to offer a new analysis of Helen in the Iliad. Psychological studies in posttraumatic stress disorder, continuous traumatic stress, and trauma following a sexual assault point to self-blame and suicidal ideation as elements of trauma. These components feature in the three Iliadic speeches where Helen blames herself for the Trojan War and fantasizes
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The Couple and the Queer in Sappho's Tithonus Poem (Frag. 58) Arethusa (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2024-08-03 Pei He
Abstract: This paper offers a new reading of the Tithonus/Dawn couple in Sappho's Tithonus poem. It identifies three elements lurking beside the Tithonus/Dawn couple: eros, chronos, and gêras. It suggests that eros, chronos, and gêras haunt this heterosexual couple, altering the power dynamics between them, just like the third element looming beside the couple in the queer couple theory of Lee Edelman
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From the Editor Arethusa (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2024-04-25 Roger D. Woodard
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: From the Editor Roger D. Woodard, Editor This issue does not mark the first occasion on which an examination of Greek musical structure and tragedy has been taken up within the covers of Arethusa. There is, for example, Claire Catenaccio’s 2017 “Sudden Song: The Musical Structure of Sophocles’ Trachiniae” (50.1, pp. 1–33), a work with
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Musical Structure in Greek Tragedy: Introduction Arethusa (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2024-04-25 Timothy J. Moore
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Musical Structure in Greek Tragedy: Introduction1 Timothy J. Moore The last four decades have brought remarkable progress in our understanding of ancient Greek music, including that of Athenian tragedy. Even before this revolution in the study of Greek music, however, the two basic ways in which our surviving texts reveal tragedy’s musical
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The Music of Tragedy: Implications of the Reconstructed Orestes Papyrus Arethusa (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2024-04-25 Armand D'Angour
Abstract: Evidence for the musical and dance elements of Attic tragedy is extremely scarce. However, a papyrus fragment dating from around 300 bc contains a section of a chorus from Euripides’ Orestes with musical notation (possibly the dramatist’s own); it may be analysed, both in its lacunose state and in a proposed reconstruction for performance, to throw light on these very elements. The papyrus
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Anapests and the Tragic Plot Arethusa (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2024-04-25 Timothy J. Moore
Abstract: Anapests, consisting always of elements of the same length (one long or two short syllables), are conducive to expressing both steady forward motion and the metaphorical motion that drives a plot to its conclusion. Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides repeatedly take advantage of this association between anapests and steady motion to underline the driving forces of their plots. They call attention
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Performing Aeschylus's Persians Arethusa (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2024-04-25 Helene Foley
Abstract: The antistrophic pairs of the choral odes of Aeschylus’s Persians are frequently marked by close verbal and thematic parallels in a symmetrical fashion. This “strophic bonding” permits more precise speculation about the possible performative relation between strophic pairs in the choral odes of a play that culminates in the explicit display of parallel lamenting gestures in the concluding
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Musical Structure and the Interpretability of Agamemnon 1513–20 Arethusa (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2024-04-25 C. W. Marshall
Abstract: This article situates the amoebaeon Agamemnon 1407–1576 within the musical structure of the play. Employing a criterion of interpretability in performance, it demonstrates how even the most complex choral and musical passages remain interpretable when a play is experienced linearly in performance. The amoebaeon, as preserved, is not interpretable however: the repetition of the second ephymnion
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Aiola Nux: The Musical Design Of Sophocles' Trachiniae Arethusa (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2024-04-25 Anna Conser
Abstract: In the original performance of Sophocles’ Trachiniae, song and dance were essential in communicating dramatic theme and character. Tragic choreia is structurally defined by paired stanzas: the antistrophe repeats the melody of the strophe but reverses its direction of dance. In Trachiniae, this antistrophic structure becomes thematic, representing the fateful bond between Deianeira and Heracles
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A New Musical Helen Arethusa (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2024-04-25 John C. Franklin
Abstract: This paper discusses compositional methods and interpretive choices behind “new ancient music” for Euripides’ Helen, how it supports or complicates the play’s musical design as previously understood, and how a newly musicalized “choral plot” can affect audience experience, ancient and modern. It is intended to complement performance recordings and scores, materials which, taken together,
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From the Editor: Foucault and Arethusa Arethusa (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2024-01-16 Roger D. Woodard
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: From the Editor:Foucault and Arethusa Roger D. Woodard As the contributors to this remarkable issue make plain, the focus on classical antiquity that would emerge conspicuously in the later years of Michel Foucault's too-short life was augured by earlier work—lectures and writings generated more than a decade before his death. Notable
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A Self-Interested Reader? Foucault and Imperial Greek Technical Texts Arethusa (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2024-01-16 Claire Hall
Abstract: This article examines Foucault's Le Souci de soi: while purporting to be a work on sexuality, it is also about the formation of the self and the relationship of subjectivity with claims to truth. I argue that Foucault's use of imperial Greek medical and technical texts connected the ancient world to his own background in the history of medicine and psychoanalysis. By reading medical and technical
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Elephants, Christians, and Pagans in the History of Sexuality Arethusa (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2024-01-16 Niki Kasumi Clements
Abstract: In this article, I argue that Foucault's archives at the Bibliothèque nationale de France require that we re-evaluate the development of his tournant antique. Between 1976 and 1984, Foucault does not orchestrate a turn to ancient Greek and Roman ethics in a departure from his analysis of modern sexuality in the 1976 History of Sexuality, volume 1, as volumes 2 and 3 as published suggest.
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Foucault's Epicureanism: Parrhēsia, Confession, and the Genealogy of the Self Arethusa (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2024-01-16 Federico Testa
Abstract: This paper addresses the apparent absence of a systematic analysis of Epicureanism in Foucault's exploration of ancient philosophy. By considering Pierre Hadot's remark concerning Foucault's problematic neglect of the Epicurean notion of hēdonē, it revisits Foucault's work in search of traces of his engagement with Epicureanism. It then goes on to analyze the genesis of the notion of parrhēsia
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The Cynics With and Without Foucault Arethusa (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2024-01-16 James I. Porter
Abstract: In the last three years of his life, Michel Foucault made a sudden and unexpected turn to the ancient Cynics. In lectures from 1982 to 1984, and most notably in his final Collège de France lectures from 1984 (The Courage of the Truth: The Government of Self and Others II), he sought to recover from the Cynics a potential for critique, militant revolution, and a courageous means of speaking
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The Power of Oedipus: Michel Foucault with Hannah Arendt Arethusa (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2024-01-16 Miriam Leonard
Abstract: It has become increasingly common to draw connections between Michel Foucault and Hannah Arendt: there are strong continuities between their respective theories of power, and Foucault and Arendt share an account of modernity and of the entry of biological life into the political sphere. Both thinkers are also immersed in the texts of antiquity and place an analysis of the ancient world at
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Medea in the Courtroom: Foucault, Alice Diop, and Abolition Arethusa (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2024-01-16 Mario Telò
Abstract: Building on Angela Davis' and other Black feminists' critiques of Discipline and Punish, this article reconsiders the important legacy of this book and of the writings of the Prisons Information Group, recently published as Intolerable (1970–1980), through the analysis of Alice Diop's Saint Omer, a 2022 film that imagines an immigrant Medea facing an infanticide conviction in a French courtroom:
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Contents for Volume 56 Arethusa (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2024-01-16
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Contents for Volume 56 Number 1 Athenian Autochthonous Kings and their Families: The Shared Patterns of their Myths lowell edmunds 1 Unanimous Gods, Unanimous Athens: The Oresteia's Challenge to Democracy amit shilo 27 In Flagrante Delicto: On the Legal Implications of Sight luuk de boer 77 Messalina's Gilded Nipples? stephanie mccarter
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Ritual as Battle: Conceptual Metaphor and Submerged Semantics in Sophron and Alcman Arethusa (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2023-09-15 Richard Martin
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Ritual as Battle: Conceptual Metaphor and Submerged Semantics in Sophron and Alcman Richard Martin Two passages from Greek literature, each dealing with ritual, exhibit unusual and isolated verbal semantics that have puzzled interpreters since the publication of their respective papyri texts in 1863 and 1933. Bringing the pair together
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Aetna Against Henna and the Poetics of Claudian's De Raptu Proserpinae Arethusa (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2023-09-15 Ruth Parkes
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Aetna Against Henna and the Poetics of Claudian’s De Raptu Proserpinae1 Ruth Parkes The earliest known literary treatment of Proserpina’s rape, the Homeric Hymn to Demeter, places the abduction on the “Nysian plain.”2 What is here a setting which is “vague and mythical” (Foley 1994.36) could be interpreted as being the Nysa in the east
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A Soul Fallen from Noetic Grace: Proclus's Transformation of Tantalus (Commentary on the Cratylus §94, 46.24–47.7) Arethusa (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2023-09-15 Mikolaj Domaradzki
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: A Soul Fallen from Noetic Grace: Proclus’s Transformation of Tantalus (Commentary on the Cratylus §94, 46.24–47.7) Mikolaj Domaradzki INTRODUCTION In his Commentary on the Cratylus, Proclus offers a highly original but largely ignored interpretation of Tantalus.1 Proclus’s sophisticated account of the king in the treatise has received
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Athenian Autochthonous Kings and their Families: The Shared Patterns of their Myths Arethusa (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2023-06-08 Lowell Edmunds
Abstract: The myths of four Athenian autochthonous kings (Kekrops, Kranaus, Erichthonius, Erechtheus) share a story pattern. The royal line extends only to the third generation and not always so far. The gene of autochthony does not persist beyond the second generation. The "speaking names" of the kings' wives and children overdetermine this pattern. Lévi-Strauss' notion of the affirmation and denial
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Unanimous Gods, Unanimous Athens: The Oresteia's Challenge to Democracy Arethusa (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2023-06-08 Amit Shilo
Abstract: This article argues that through envisioning a militaristic, unanimous Athens, the Eumenides presents a novel and provocative political theory. I use political theology to clarify the structures and dangers of this concluding vision, which profoundly diverges from Athenian democracy. However, still meaningfully operative within the Oresteia are checking forces implied in its polytheism, plural
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In Flagrante Delicto: On the Legal Implications of Sight Arethusa (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2023-06-08 Luuk De Boer
Abstract: The distinction between manifest and non-manifest delicts, and the differentiated regime of punishment attached to it, is attested in all ancient legal systems. And yet, already in antiquity, it assumed the status of a mystery: why punish more severely, only because the criminal had been caught in flagrante? This article examines the extant evidence on the flagrant delict through the prism
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Messalina's Gilded Nipples? Arethusa (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2023-06-08 Stephanie McCarter
Abstract: This article questions the long-held assumption that the empress Messalina, as described by Juvenal at Satires 6.122–23, is donning gold foil pasties on her nipples as she performs sex work in a Roman brothel. I argue that papilla never unambiguously suggests a nipple in Roman poetry and is better understood as referring to the full breast. The idea that Messalina sports pasties, moreover
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From The Editor Arethusa (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2023-04-15 Roger D. Woodard
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: From The Editor Roger D. Woodard Earlier versions of the papers that constitute this special thematic issue of Arethusa were presented at a symposium on Greek tragedy—one meeting of a series of three symposia informally known as the "Peradotto Sessions." The series was made possible through the generous financial support of Milton Ezrati
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Iphigenia in Ireland: A Long View Arethusa (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2023-04-15 Fiona Macintosh
Abstract: This article explores the relative lack of interest in Euripides' Iphigenia in Aulis for over 150 years, and the curious neglect of the play at the end of the nineteenth century, in particular, when scholars rehabilitated Euripides as the ancient playwright for the modern age. Even when Euripides' tragedies were staged in the early years of the twentieth century at London's Royal Court Theatre
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Rewriting Hippolytus: Hybridity, Posthumanism, and Social Politics in Marina Carr's Phaedra Backwards Arethusa (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2023-04-15 Isabelle Torrance
Abstract: This article sheds light on Irish playwright Marina Carr's 2011 Phaedra Backwards, which premiered at the McCarter Theater in Princeton, as a particularly dense and multidirectional twenty-first century retelling of the Hippolytus myth. The centrality of the Minotaur in the drama, the role of technology in his creation, the place of nature in human life, and certain surprising motifs, such
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Virginia Woolf's Antigones Arethusa (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2023-04-15 Nancy Worman
Abstract: This study explores Virginia Woolf's engagements with the stubborn and riveting character of Sophocles' Antigone, the most famously proto-feminist figure in Greek tragedy. As Woolf's deployments of the character occur only in The Voyage Out and The Years, two novels that are decades apart, as well as in the treatise Three Guineas, I can't claim that Antigone always remained central to Woolf's
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The Matter of Tragedy: Reading with Water Arethusa (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2023-04-15 Pauline Leven
Abstract: This article proposes a "matter-realist" reading of tragedy: starting from Alice Oswald's 2019 Nobody, a poem about water based on the Odyssey and the Oresteia, and from the feminist phenomenologist acknowledgment that "we are bodies of water" (Neimanis 2017), my paper argues for the importance of taking water at face value. It focuses on water metaphors and metonymies in the tragic corpus
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Contents Volume 55 Arethusa (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2023-04-15
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Contents Volume 55 Number 1 Euripides' Suppliants: Mystery Cult Initiation and the Deaths of Evadne and Capaneus bijan omrani 1 Race, Gender, and Queenship in Book 2 of Vitruvius's de Architectura patricia kim 19 Rape, Apotheosis, and Politics in Metamorphoses 14 and 15 alicia matz 47 Bodily Metaphors and Failed Resolution in Persius's
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Aristophanes' Hiccups and Pausanius's Sophistry in Plato's Symposium Arethusa (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2022-11-16 Anthony Hooper
Abstract: This paper concerns the episode of Aristophanes' hiccups in Plato's Symposium. The sequence is typically understood to be not merely a comic aside but rather a means by which Aristophanes offers commentary on the claims of the other speakers in the dialogue. But where scholars have focused on the significance of this passage concerning Eryximachus's account of Eros, I argue that the hiccups
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Epistemic Injustice in Propertius 1.3 Arethusa (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2022-11-16 Nick Ollivère
Abstract: In Propertius 1.3 we hear Cynthia speak for the first time, in direct speech, accusing Propertius of infidelity. It is a striking moment in elegy, barely to be repeated. In this paper I want to explore what the framework of epistemic injustice, part of the field of epistemology, could mean for a reading of this dramatic encounter. As elaborated by the philosopher Miranda Fricker, the theory
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Two Case Studies on Desire and Deniability in Queer History Arethusa (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2022-11-16 Robert Matera
Abstract: Plausible deniability has presented both problems and opportunities to queer people and queer historical projects. Some scholars have avoided reading one woman expressing desire for another in the graffito CIL IV 5296. The speaker of Tibullus 1.4 uses a double meaning to solicit sexual penetration without incurring penalties; this reading has not appeared in print before. Considering the
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What is Athens without Menander? The Comic Poet, the Courtesan, and the Production of Space in Alciphron's Letters Arethusa (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2022-11-16 Anna Irene Peterson
Abstract: Spatial descriptions in Alciphron's Letters convey meaning even as they reinforce the Athenocentric view of the collection. This article considers the production of space in the Letters and how Alciphron uses the figure of the courtesan to expand the perspective of the collection to include the broader Hellenistic world. Although Alciphron's courtesans are closely tied to Athens, Book 4 contains
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Euripides' Suppliants: Mystery Cult Initiation and the Deaths of Evadne and Capaneus Arethusa (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2022-08-10 Bijan Omrani
Abstract: The deaths of Capaneus and Evadne in Euripides’ Suppliants have caused considerable difficulty. Many argue there are irreconcilable contradictions in Capaneus’s portrayal throughout the play. Many have also found the portrayal of Evadne’s death, leaping from a great height, as being out of the ordinary in terms of character and Greek stagecraft. This article argues that the two deaths are
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Race, Gender, and Queenship in Book 2 of Vitruvius's de Architectura Arethusa (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2022-08-10 Patricia Eunji Kim
Abstract: This paper engages with intersectional feminist theory to explore how Vitruvius’s story about the Carian queen Artemisia II in Book 2 of De Architectura illuminates first-century B.C.E. Roman attitudes of hostility towards non-Roman women in spaces of political power—especially given what would have been the recent defeat of the Egyptian queen Cleopatra VII. The paper has two goals: first
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Rape, Apotheosis, and Politics in Metamorphoses 14 and 15 Arethusa (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2022-08-10 Alicia Matz
Abstract: This paper examines apotheoses that occur in the last two books of Ovid’s Metamorphoses and argues that they are modeled after previous rapes from the poem. In the apotheosis of Julius Caesar, Ovid uses rapina to mean “deification,” a word only used elsewhere in the poem with the definition of “rape.” Similar language of snatching also occurs in the deification of Romulus. Aeneas’s apotheosis
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Bodily Metaphors and Failed Resolution in Persius's First Satire Arethusa (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2022-08-10 Scott Weiss
Abstract: Persius’s first satire programmatically positions his authorial persona at a remove from contemporary literary practice. By coordinating its bodily images as a metaphorical theme, the poem articulates the satirist’s stance on literary production and consumption. After demonstrating a series of correspondences between eyes and ears, this article contextualizes these dynamics within a system
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Euripides' Suppliants: Mystery Cult Initiation and the Deaths of Evadne and Capaneus Arethusa (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2022-08-10 Bijan Omrani
Abstract: The deaths of Capaneus and Evadne in Euripides’ Suppliants have caused considerable difficulty. Many argue there are irreconcilable contradictions in Capaneus’s portrayal throughout the play. Many have also found the portrayal of Evadne’s death, leaping from a great height, as being out of the ordinary in terms of character and Greek stagecraft. This article argues that the two deaths are
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Race, Gender, and Queenship in Book 2 of Vitruvius's de Architectura Arethusa (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2022-08-10 Patricia Eunji Kim
Abstract: This paper engages with intersectional feminist theory to explore how Vitruvius’s story about the Carian queen Artemisia II in Book 2 of De Architectura illuminates first-century B.C.E. Roman attitudes of hostility towards non-Roman women in spaces of political power—especially given what would have been the recent defeat of the Egyptian queen Cleopatra VII. The paper has two goals: first
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Rape, Apotheosis, and Politics in Metamorphoses 14 and 15 Arethusa (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2022-08-10 Alicia Matz
Abstract: This paper examines apotheoses that occur in the last two books of Ovid’s Metamorphoses and argues that they are modeled after previous rapes from the poem. In the apotheosis of Julius Caesar, Ovid uses rapina to mean “deification,” a word only used elsewhere in the poem with the definition of “rape.” Similar language of snatching also occurs in the deification of Romulus. Aeneas’s apotheosis
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Bodily Metaphors and Failed Resolution in Persius's First Satire Arethusa (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2022-08-10 Scott Weiss
Abstract: Persius’s first satire programmatically positions his authorial persona at a remove from contemporary literary practice. By coordinating its bodily images as a metaphorical theme, the poem articulates the satirist’s stance on literary production and consumption. After demonstrating a series of correspondences between eyes and ears, this article contextualizes these dynamics within a system
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Origins and Original Moments in Late Greek and Latin Texts Arethusa (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2022-06-07 Marco Formisano, Cristiana Sogno
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Origins and Original Moments in Late Greek and Latin Texts Marco Formisano and Cristiana Sogno In the opening piece of his poetic corpus (Carm. 1), the 5th century Gallo-Roman poet Sidonius Apollinaris presents the reader with an archetypical situation: after Jupiter has been established as king of the universe by Natura, various gods
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The King Listens: Origins, Noises, and Panegyric in Sidonius Apollinaris' Carmen 1 Arethusa (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2022-06-07 Marco Formisano
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: The King Listens:Origins, Noises, and Panegyric in Sidonius Apollinaris' Carmen 1 Marco Formisano In the opening piece of his poetic corpus (Carm. 1), the 5th century Gallo-Roman poet Sidonius Apollinaris presents the reader with an archetypical situation: after Jupiter has been established as king of the universe by Natura, various gods
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"All The Famous Deeds of Achilles Are Yours": Homeric Exemplarity in Late Antique Panegyric Arethusa (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2022-06-07 Fotini Hadjittofi
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: "All The Famous Deeds of Achilles Are Yours":Homeric Exemplarity in Late Antique Panegyric Fotini Hadjittofi Late antique panegyrists often raise up their laudandi by casting a shadow on Homer and his (mainly Iliadic) heroes. This paper traces the history of an increasingly irreverent attitude towards Greece's foundational poet and his
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In the Name-of-the-Father: Rutilius Namatianus and the Collapse of Classical Logocentrism Arethusa (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2022-06-07 Jesús Hernández Lobato
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: In the Name-of-the-Father:Rutilius Namatianus and the Collapse of Classical Logocentrism Jesús Hernández Lobato Rutilius Namatianus's poem De Reditu Suo, written around AD 418, is especially famous for its gloomy and almost "romantic" depictions of ruins and nocturnal landscapes. However, at a deeper level of reading, it thematizes an
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Expunging Originality: Alexandrian Critics in Late Antique Gaul Arethusa (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2022-06-07 Brian Sowers
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Expunging Originality:Alexandrian Critics in Late Antique Gaul Brian Sowers This essay examines three references to the Alexandrian critic-librarians Zenodotus and Aristarchus in the writings of Ausonius of Bordeaux: Professores 13, Epistle 10, and the preface to the Ludus Septem Sapientum. Through these references to the origins of Hellenistic
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Beginning at the End in Imperial Greek Epic Arethusa (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2022-06-07 Emma Greensmith
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Beginning at the End in Imperial Greek Epic Emma Greensmith Greek epic has a notoriously ambiguous relationship to authorship, with composers from Homer to Nonnus finding covert, creative ways to construct their identities in relation to their models, origins, or sources. In this essay, I look at three Greek works from the imperial period:
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Alluvium and Interlude: The Dynamics of Relationality in Ausonius's Mosella Arethusa (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2022-06-07 Del A. Maticic
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Alluvium and Interlude:The Dynamics of Relationality in Ausonius's Mosella Del A. Maticic As a study of relationality in Ausonius's Mosella, this paper explores how the poet figures the river as a powerful connective force linking together times, spaces, humans, animals, and supernatural creatures. The many interconnected relationships
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What is Dead May Never Die: Sicilian Regeneration in Claudian's De Raptu Proserpinae Arethusa (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2022-06-07 Elizabeth Heintges
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: What is Dead May Never Die:Sicilian Regeneration in Claudian's De Raptu Proserpinae Elizabeth Heintges In the De Raptu Proserpinae, Claudian refocuses the natural cycles of regeneration that color the myth of Proserpina and Ceres by placing a significant emphasis on the landscape in which his poem's events unfold: the island of Sicily
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Beginning with God: Theology and Origins in Nonnus Arethusa (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2022-06-07 Simon Goldhill
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Beginning with God:Theology and Origins in Nonnus Simon Goldhill This article considers how stories of origin change under the growing influence of Christianity in late antiquity. The analysis starts from the different claims on origin made in the four canonical Gospels, on the one hand, and the developed theory of origin in Augustine's
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The Bible as Writing Machine: Reflections on a Late Ancient Theory of Literature Arethusa (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2022-06-07 Virginia Burrus
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: The Bible as Writing Machine:Reflections on a Late Ancient Theory of Literature Virginia Burrus For Christian writers of late antiquity, the bible is a kind of writing machine that is also a divine body. Drawing lightly on the theories of Jacques Derrida and Friedrich Kittler, I will unpack this enigmatic proposal by considering how a
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Contents Volume 53 Arethusa (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2022-06-07
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Contents Volume 53 Number 1 Red Herrings and Perceptual Filters: Problems and Opportunities for Aeschylus's Supplices peter olive 1 Daughters of Mnemosyne: Architecture, Distributed Cognition, and the Helleno-Roman Theater rabun taylor 31 Controlling Images: Enslaved Women in Greek and Roman Comedy anne feltovich 73 Creative Destruction:
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Sappho's Mythic Models for Female Homoeroticism Arethusa (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2021-12-16 Rachel H. Lesser
Abstract: This paper contends that Sappho draws upon the mythic tradition to represent female homoeroticism as queer in her poetry. First, I show how Sappho's invocation of Tithonos and Helen as erotic paradigms in fragments 58 and 16 figures female same-sex love as non-normative and shadowed by loss, while also symmetrical and idealized. Then I propose that the Homeric Andromache also informs Sappho's
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Performing Theocritus's Pharmakeutria: Revealing Hellenistic Witchcraft Arethusa (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2021-12-16 Marguerite Johnson, Nicole Kimball
Abstract: Theocritus's Idyll 2(c. 280–60 B.C.E.) is the finest surviving example of what the Greeks called mime, a short spoken play for one to four actors that was probably performed without props. This article addresses the performativity of Idyll 2 through a scholarly exegesis based on a research project that set out to investigate how this monologue could be successfully performed on the modern
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Homer Redivivus? Rethinking the Transmigration of the Soul in Ennius's Annals Arethusa (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2021-12-16 Patrick Glauthier
Abstract: This paper reconsiders certain assumptions about Ennius's dream in the Annals. I argue that Ennius likely characterized transmigration as Pythagorean; that based on comparisons with Pythagorean texts, Ennius, not Homer, probably said "memini me fiere pavom" (frag. 1.9 .11); that Ennius may have remembered being Homer in a previous life rather than presenting himself as Homer reincarnate;