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Being Achilles' Heir: A Psychoanalytical Reading of Neoptolemus in Sophocles' Philoctetes Helios (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2023-08-21 Cecilia Cozzi
Abstract: This article offers a psychoanalytical reading of Neoptolemus’s evolution on stage in Sophocles’ Philoctetes. The analysis stems from Italian psychoanalyst Massimo Recalcati’s definition of inheritance as a movement of reclamation, which entails the heir’s active choice in approaching his father’s example. In the end of the play, Neoptolemus emerges as a good heir, because he neither dismissed
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Echoes of Ovid? Memories of the Metamorphoses in Philostratus's Imagines Helios (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2023-08-21 Carolyn MacDonald
Abstract: This paper explores the cultural-ideological dimensions of Philostratus’s Imagines, a series of prose descriptions of paintings purportedly on display in a third-century CE Neapolitan villa. Taking a reader-response perspective, I argue that reminiscences of Ovid’s Metamorphoses complicate the avowed Hellenism of the text and its audience, transforming the Imagines into a series of reflecting
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The Chalybes as an Historical People Helios (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2023-08-21 Maria Beatrice Bittarello
Abstract: The mythical iron-workers the Chalybes are described as an historical people by both Greek and Roman writers. This paper examines the ancient sources that describe them as a ‘barbarian’ people inhabiting the peripheral regions of the known world and highlights significant differences between the ‘historical’ Chalybes and the mythical Chalybes. By adopting an approach located at the intersection
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Notes on Contributors Helios (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2023-08-21
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Notes on Contributors Cecilia Cozzi is a sixth year PhD candidate in Philology at the University of Cincinnati. She received both her BA and her MA from the University of Trento (Italy), in 2014 and 2016 respectively. She has been a visiting researcher at the University of Cambridge and at Carleton University (Ottawa, Canada), where she
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An Intersectional Approach to Theocritus, Idyll 15 Helios (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2022-08-18 Matthew Chaldekas
Abstract: Theocritus's Adoniazusae (Idyll 15) has long been recognized as one of his most historically pertinent Idylls, but the complex social dynamics of the narrative frame warrant further investigation. Building on earlier feminist readings of the poem, this study pays careful attention to the characters' comments about ethnicity and gender in order to explore the intersection of these two categories
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Scriptus Propertius: Propertius between Body and Text Helios (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2022-08-18 Erik Fredericksen
Abstract: This article traces how Propertius imagines being read, and argues that problems surrounding the representation of his male body underlie conflicting anxieties of authorship. It begins by suggesting that a number of funereal scenes allow Propertius to figure his own absence in future readers' interactions with his poetry and express his lack of control over the reception of his text. At the
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Animals as Individuals in Anyte of Tegea Helios (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2022-08-18 Richard Hutchins
Abstract: This article explores a tension in the animal epigrams of Anyte of Tegea, the inventor of the animal and pastoral epigram. It argues that, on the one hand, the genre of funerary epigram encourages Anyte to think about animals as individuals, with their own particular personalities, biographies, and interests, as well about the particularity of their relationships with the human companions
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Notes on Contributors Helios (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2022-08-18
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Notes on Contributors Matthew Chaldekas is a postdoctoral researcher at Eberhard Karls Universität, Tübingen. He has published articles and reviews on topics in Hellenistic poetry, primarily on Theocritus. His research interests include Greek poetry, ancient gender and ethnicity, ancient aesthetics, and cinematic reception. He is a member
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An Intersectional Approach to Theocritus, Idyll 15 Helios (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2022-08-18 Matthew Chaldekas
Abstract: Theocritus's Adoniazusae (Idyll 15) has long been recognized as one of his most historically pertinent Idylls, but the complex social dynamics of the narrative frame warrant further investigation. Building on earlier feminist readings of the poem, this study pays careful attention to the characters' comments about ethnicity and gender in order to explore the intersection of these two categories
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Scriptus Propertius: Propertius between Body and Text Helios (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2022-08-18 Erik Fredericksen
Abstract: This article traces how Propertius imagines being read, and argues that problems surrounding the representation of his male body underlie conflicting anxieties of authorship. It begins by suggesting that a number of funereal scenes allow Propertius to figure his own absence in future readers' interactions with his poetry and express his lack of control over the reception of his text. At the
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Animals as Individuals in Anyte of Tegea Helios (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2022-08-18 Richard Hutchins
Abstract: This article explores a tension in the animal epigrams of Anyte of Tegea, the inventor of the animal and pastoral epigram. It argues that, on the one hand, the genre of funerary epigram encourages Anyte to think about animals as individuals, with their own particular personalities, biographies, and interests, as well about the particularity of their relationships with the human companions
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Notes on Contributors Helios (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2022-08-18
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Notes on Contributors Matthew Chaldekas is a postdoctoral researcher at Eberhard Karls Universität, Tübingen. He has published articles and reviews on topics in Hellenistic poetry, primarily on Theocritus. His research interests include Greek poetry, ancient gender and ethnicity, ancient aesthetics, and cinematic reception. He is a member
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Entanglements of the Human and Nonhuman in Euripides' Helen Helios (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2022-03-02 Maria Combatti
Abstract: This article explores depictions and perceptions of Helen’s relations with the non-human world. Drawing on the insights of posthumanism, new materialisms, and affect theory for interpretative assistance, it argues that Helen, animals, natural entities, and material things are interconnected in bundles of intra-actions and trans-corporeal entanglements, which make Helen’s embodied, emotional
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Language and Agency in Sappho's Brothers Poem Helios (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2022-03-02 Alexandra Leewon Schultz
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Language and Agency in Sappho’s Brothers Poem Alexandra Leewon Schultz (bio) Notes on Provenance The papyrus fragment containing the text of the Brothers Poem (P.Sapph.Obbink) has no established provenance, since Dirk Obbink’s accounts of provenance have been exposed as fabrications. There is further reason to believe the fragment was
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Reframing Iphis and Caeneus: Trans Narratives and Socio-Linguistic Gendering in Ovid's Metamorphoses Helios (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2022-03-02 J. L. Watson
Abstract: This article argues for a reinterpretation of two Ovidian characters. Iphis (in Book 9 of the Metamorphoses) and Caeneus (in Book 12) have historically been described by a range of sexualities and gender terms, such as lesbian, transvestite, and trans-sexual, each of which comes with its own problems. Here, I reframe these characters as trans men. In this article I build on two strands of
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Notes on Contributors Helios (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2022-03-02
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Notes on Contributors Maria Combatti completed her Ph.D. in Classics at Columbia University in 2020. Her research interests range from Presocratic philosophy, Hippocratic medicine, and Greek tragedy to Hellenistic poetry, especially Callimachus. Her current book project focuses on intersections between gender and environment in Greek tragedy
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New Directions in Ovidian Scholarship Helios (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2021-08-19 K. Sara Myers
Abstract: This paper surveys recent trends in Ovidian studies (such as cross-cultural studies, the 'spatial turn,' reception, and gender studies), and reviews some approaches that have continued to be important, such as genre, intertextuality, and authority.
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Actaeon in the Wilderness: Ovid and Christine de Pizan Helios (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2021-08-19 Carole Newlands
Abstract: In this paper I explore the contribution of the medieval French writer Christine de Pizan (1365–c. 1431) to Ovidian reception studies in her early illustrated work, Epistle of Othéa (1399–1400). Along with the Ovide Moralisé, the Othéa stands at the start of a rich visual tradition of Ovidian illustration. Christine's written and pictorial response to the narrative of Diana and Actaeon demonstrates
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Ovid in and after Exile Helios (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2021-08-19 Alison Keith
Abstract: This study explores three myths from Ovid's Metamorphoses, to which the poet returned in his exile poetry, and their reception in two late twentieth-century European novels. In his final verse collections, Ovid evinces great concern for the enduring fame of the Metamorphoses, and his reinterpretation of metamorphic myth in the exile poetry underlines the potential for their allegorical interpretation
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Ovid in the #MeToo Era Helios (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2021-08-19 Daniel Libatique
Abstract: This article surveys the discussion around teaching and reading Ovid's upsetting stories of sexual violence, especially in the context of the #MeToo era, and suggests that such stories offer modern readers the opportunity to investigate the power dynamics that allow such acts to happen at all. The case study for this approach is the myth of Philomela, Tereus, and Procne in Metamorphoses 6
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Notes on Contributors Helios (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2021-08-19
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Notes on Contributors Laurel Fulkerson is Professor of Classics and Interim Vice President for Research at the Florida State University. She is the author of The Ovidian Heroine as Author: Reading, Writing, and Community in the Heroides (Cambridge: Cambridge University 2005); Ovid: A Poet on the Margins (London: Bloomsbury, 2016); The
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Other Materialisms: Human and Nonhuman in Martial Elegy Helios (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2021-05-11 Will Brockliss
Abstract: New-materialistic studies of early Greek poetry have focused on the Homeric epics and on their intersections with the concepts of "entanglement" or the "assemblage," both of which acknowledge the interwovenness of humans and objects. This paper focuses on martial elegy, especially the compositions of Tyrtaeus and Archilochus, and shows that while some passages coincide with new-materialistic
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(Re)writing Sappho: Navigating Sappho's (Posthuman) Poetic Identity in Ovid, Heroides 15 Helios (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2021-05-11 Simona Martorana
Abstract: This article explores Ovid's Heroides 15 (the Epistula Sapphus) through a post-human feminist approach, engaging with the most recent scholarly debate on (Ovid's) Sappho's polysemous poetic language, polyphonic narrative, and gender fluidity. Drawing from recently published works that explore the intersections between posthumanism and antiquity, I show that Her. 15 is resituated within the
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Tectius illa cupit: Female Pleasure in Ovid's Ars amatoria Helios (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2021-05-11 Erika L. Weiberg
Abstract: The topic of female pleasure is frequently suppressed in Ovid's Ars amatoria. Yet because pleasure is an unavoidable subject for a teacher who professes techniques of love, the moments in which this topic is broached are marked by a rupture in the teacher's logic or by an overt redirection of the course of his teaching, an overt covering up of female desire and pleasure at the very moment
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Notes on Contributors Helios (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2021-05-11
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Notes on Contributors Will Brockliss is Associate Professor of Classics at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. He is the author of Homeric Imagery and the Natural Environment (Cambridge, MA, 2019) and articles on ecology, environments, human bodies, and monstrosity. He is currently working on a book on horror in ancient epic, as well
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Language and Agency in Sappho’s Brothers Poem Helios (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2021-01-01 Alexandra Leewon Schultz
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Actaeon in the Wilderness: Ovid and Christine de Pizan Helios (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2021-01-01 Carole Newlands
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Reframing Iphis and Caeneus: Trans Narratives and Socio-Linguistic Gendering in Ovid’s Metamorphoses Helios (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2021-01-01 J. L. Watson
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Entanglements of the Human and Nonhuman in Euripides’ Helen Helios (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2021-01-01 Maria Combatti
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Reach and Reunion in the Odyssey: An Enactive Narratology Helios (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2020-10-04 Alexander Forte
Abstract: This article begins by analyzing the way in which reach and touch mark the achievement of Odysseus’s reunions and suggests a new way of conceptualizing Homeric desire and the protagonist’s need for fulfillment within a narrative through haptic action. It then turns to the ways in which the telos of reach, namely, touch, manifests in a gendered dynamic that pits the masculine grasp against
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Putting an End to Song: Penelope, Odysseus, and the Teleologies of the Odyssey Helios (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2020-10-04 Emily Hauser
Abstract: Book 1 of the Odyssey presents us with the first bard-figure of the poem, singing what in many ways is an analogue to the Odyssey with “the return of the Greeks”; yet when Penelope appears, it is to attempt to put an end to his song. I use this scene as a starting point to suggest that Penelope is deeply implicated in narrative endings in the Odyssey. Looking at the end or τέλος of the poem
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The Sickness unto Elegy: Kierkegaard's Despair in Tibullus Helios (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2020-10-04 Nick Ollivère
Abstract: This paper examines the many contradictions in Tibullus 1.1 that are subsequently repeated throughout his poetry, and have been repeatedly inscrutable for those working on the poems. Tibullus will drift between and amongst different locations, speakers, addressees, and viewpoints in a single poem, and on occasion within the space of a few lines. I will introduce Kierkegaard’s concept of despair
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Notes on Contributors Helios (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2020-10-04
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Notes on Contributors Alexander Forte is lecturer in ancient and medieval studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His research lies at the intersection of cognitive and historical linguistics, literary criticism, and intellectual history, with emphasis on the poetics of early Greek hexameter poetry. He is currently completing
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Tectius illa cupit: Female Pleasure in Ovid's Ars amatoria Helios (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2020-01-01 Erika L. Weiberg
Abstract:The topic of female pleasure is frequently suppressed in Ovid's Ars amatoria. Yet because pleasure is an unavoidable subject for a teacher who professes techniques of love, the moments in which this topic is broached are marked by a rupture in the teacher's logic or by an overt redirection of the course of his teaching, an overt covering up of female desire and pleasure at the very moment
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(Re)writing Sappho: Navigating Sappho's (Posthuman) Poetic Identity in Ovid, Heroides 15 Helios (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2020-01-01 Simona Martorana
Abstract:This article explores Ovid's Heroides 15 (the Epistula Sapphus) through a post-human feminist approach, engaging with the most recent scholarly debate on (Ovid's) Sappho's polysemous poetic language, polyphonic narrative, and gender fluidity. Drawing from recently published works that explore the intersections between posthumanism and antiquity, I show that Her. 15 is resituated within the
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Other Materialisms: Human and Nonhuman in Martial Elegy Helios (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2020-01-01 Will Brockliss
Abstract:New-materialistic studies of early Greek poetry have focused on the Homeric epics and on their intersections with the concepts of "entanglement" or the "assemblage," both of which acknowledge the interwovenness of humans and objects. This paper focuses on martial elegy, especially the compositions of Tyrtaeus and Archilochus, and shows that while some passages coincide with new-materialistic
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Sed illae puellae: Transgender Studies and Apuleius's The Golden Ass Helios (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2019-01-01 H. Christian Blood
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We Two Alone: Conjugal Bonds and Homoerotic Subtext in the Iliad Helios (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2019-01-01 Celsiana Warwick
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The Omen and the Dream: Helen's and Penelope's Visions of the Eagle and the Geese in Homer, Odyssey 15.160–178 and 19.535–555 Helios (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2019-01-01 Elizabeth Stockdale
Abstract:In the Odyssey, Helen and Penelope experience similar portents in their respective omen and dream episodes. Both involve the actions of an eagle and a goose/geese. What the interpretations of these visions also have in common is the entrenched epic's thematic focus on Odysseus's pending homecoming and the restoration of his οἶκος. Recent scholarship on Helen has commented that Od. 15.172–178
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Venus in Fur: Remaking Bacchae in America Helios (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2019-01-01 Helene P. Foley
Abstract:This paper considers how and why the American playwright David Ives's 2010–2012 New York hit play Venus in Fur directed by Walter Bobbie borrowed the plot of Euripides' Bacchae to dramatize a new version of Leopold van Sacher-Masoch's 1870 novella Venus in Furs (Venus im Pelz). The play gradually reveals that the actress auditioning for the part of its heroine, Vanda, is in fact the goddess
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Ritual and Closure in Sophocles' Ajax Helios (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2019-01-01 Adriana Brook
Abstract:While the burial at the end of Sophocles' Ajax is often interpreted as offering a form of ritual closure, this paper argues that the burial equally undermines closure. I use van Gennep's rite of passage model and Aristotle's Poetics to establish that both ritual and tragedy follow analogous, predictable tripartite progressions. On this foundation, I show that, as the Ajax's plot progresses
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Political Identity and Space in Alcaeus 130b Helios (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2019-01-01 Jessica Romney
Abstract:In a lament on the rustic life of an exile, the persona loquens of Alcaeus 130b progresses through three spaces: the polis, esxatiai, and a temenos. The first is explicitly political, but the persona cannot occupy its territory; the latter two, where the persona can dwell, are apolitical while the temenos in particular is gendered in line with the Lesbian women who hold their beauty contests
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Female Trouble in Terence's Hecyra: Rape-Pregnancy Plots and the Absence of Abortion in Roman Comedy Helios (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2019-01-01 Tara Mulder
Abstract:In New Comedy, plots involving a child conceived through rape present unique complications for women. In such plays women must work together to hide the pregnancies and rid themselves of the 'evidence.' Further, they do so within the confines of New Comedic conventions—there is no recourse to abortion. This article looks at rape-pregnancy plots in Roman Comedy, focusing particularly on the
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Female Gaze and Desire in the Europa and Carmen 64 Helios (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2018-01-01 Florence Klein
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Medusa's Gaze in Imperial Latin Epic: In memoriam R. Elaine Fantham (1933–2016) Helios (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2018-01-01 Alison Keith
The mythical figure of the Medusa has had a potent afterlife in twentieth-century critical theory from Freudian psychoanalysis to French feminism.1 In her classical literary reception, too, Roman authors struggle to come to terms with the power of her image. From Ovid in Metamorphoses 4, through Lucan in Bellum civile 9, to Statius in Thebaid 1, we can see the Latin epic poets treating Medusa’s gaze
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Spectacle in the Eleven Elegies of Sulpicia: To Marcus Colyer, M.D., and Joseph Pasternak, M.D. Helios (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2018-01-01 Judith P. Hallett
My paper closely examines the text of Tibullus Book 3, poems 8–13, the eleven elegies about, and to my mind by, the Augustan poet Sulpicia, through the lens of “the visual.”1 It concludes by reflecting on what I would regard as an Ovidian echo of one particularly memorable visual detail in these elegies. Like Tibullus—whose death in 19 BCE Ovid laments, and whose poetry he evokes both reverentially
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Visions of a Hero: Optical Illusions and Multifocal Epic in Statius's Achilleid Helios (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2018-01-01 Federica Bessone
“Poetry for the eyes” is a felicitous definition of Ovid’s epic. The Metamorphoses are a model for the Achilleid in this as in other aspects,1 like the themes of deceit, transformation, and gender fluidity; the spectacle of appearances, matched by ambiguity in language; the provocation of the proem, with its program of a cyclic epos and a carmen deductum (finely spun song); the dialogue with alternative
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Desire and Rape in the Feminine: The Tales of Echo and Salmacis: An Ovidian Answer to Propertius 1.20? Helios (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2018-01-01 Jacqueline Fabre-Serris
In this paper I offer a comprehensive study of two stories told in Ovid’s Metamorphoses 3 and 4, each about the meeting between a boy (Narcissus/Hermaphroditus) and a nymph (Echo/Salmacis), consumed with desire at first glance. In both passages Ovid uses a narrative pattern recurring in many erotic tales of the Metamorphoses with male and female protagonists: the sudden sight of an erotically attractive
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“Dark Ecology” and the Works and Days Helios (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2018-01-01 William Brockliss
Abstract:The ecocritic and philosopher Timothy Morton has recently proposed an aesthetics of “dark ecology” as the appropriate artistic response to difficult environments. Our interactions with such environments encourage us to recognize that we are neither superior to nor entirely separate from the objects and living beings that surround us. Accordingly, dark ecological art explores interpenetrations
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Murder, Interrupted: Seneca’s Medea and the Case of the Second Child Helios (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2018-01-01 Lisl Walsh
Abstract:This essay takes a diachronic and phenomenological approach to the ending of Seneca’s Medea and pursues the semantic possibilities and consequences of Seneca’s choice to separate the murders of the two children. I look first at the development of Medea’s character throughout the play: What might an audience think drives this Medea to filicide, and how does Medea’s speech specifically guide
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Byblis’s ‘Feminine Latinity’ in Ovid’s Metamorphoses 9.450–665 Helios (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2018-01-01 Jessica Westerhold
Abstract:Sulpicia, a young woman connected to an important literary circle through her uncle, Marcus Valerius Messalla Corvinus, may be the only extant female poet of the Augustan period. If so, it is likely that Ovid had privileged knowledge of a Roman woman’s poetic voice, as scholars have noted similarities between Ovid’s poetry and Sulpicia’s. We may see further correspondences between the Ovidian
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The Pandareids and Pandora: Defining Penelope's Subjectivity in the Odyssey Helios (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2017-01-01 Rachel H. Lesser
Early in Book 20 of the Odyssey, on the eve of the bow contest for her hand in marriage, Penelope wakes from sleep, cries until she is sated, and then prays to Artemis for death. She asks Artemis either to shoot her with an arrow at once or to send a storm wind that will snatch her up and cast her into the streams of Oceanus, just as the storm winds carried off the daughters of Pandareus (20.61–66)
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Weaving Time: Ariadne and the Argo in Catullus, C. 64 Helios (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2017-01-01 Katherine Wasdin
A reader of Catullus’s c. 64 is in for a perplexing, if captivating, experience. The poem, his longest by far, is often called an epyllion, or miniature epic.1 It opens with the voyage of the Argo, designated as the first ship at 64.11: illa rudem cursu prima imbuit Amphitriten (She first inaugurated inexperienced Amphitrite [i.e. the ocean] with her journey).2 After nymphs marvel at the innovative
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Heracles, Hylas, and the Homeric Hymn to Demeter in Apollonius's Argonautica Helios (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2017-01-01 Barbara Leigh Clayton
The last episode of Book 1 of Apollonius’s Argonautica (1.1187–1357) tells the story of Heracles’ loss of his beloved Hylas, snatched away by a spring nymph as he was fetching water to prepare dinner.1 The episode is a key component in the story of Jason and the Argonauts, because it explains why Heracles was not present when they reached Colchis and successfully (with Medea’s help) captured the Golden
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Simulation, Violence, and Resistance in Euripides' Helen Helios (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2017-01-01 Brian V. Lush
Euripides’ “new Helen,” as Aristophanes (Thesm. 850) identifies her, occupies a tenuous position between the aggressive imposition of power (divine, political, and erotic) and resistance. In Hera’s replication of Helen, the goddess would nullify Helen’s identity in order to remove the stakes of a military conflict predicated upon Helen’s singular beauty. Although Helen’s eponymous heroine seeks to