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Written into the landscape : Latin epic and the landmarks of literary reception
No full textLandscape in Roman literature is manifest with symbolic potential: in particular, Vergil and Ovid respond to ideologically loaded representations of abundance in nature that signal the dawn of the Augustan golden age. Vergil's Eclogues foreground a locus amoenus landscape which articulates both the hopes of the new age as well as the political upheaval that accompanied the new political regime; Ovid uses the same topography in order to suggest the arbitrary and capricious use of power within a deceptively idyllic landscape. Moreover, for Latin poets, depictions of landscape are themselves sites for poetic reflection as evidenced by the discussion of landscape ecphrases in Horace's Ars Poetica.
My thesis focuses upon the depiction and refiguration of the locus amoenus landscape in the post-Augustan epics of the first century AD: Lucan's Bellum Civile, Valerius Flaccus' Argonautica, Statius' Thebaid and Silius Italicus' Punica. Landscape in these poems retains the moral, political and metapoetic force evident in the Augustan archetypes. However, I suggest that Lucan's Neronian Bellum Civile fundamentally refigures the landscapes of Latin epic poetry, inscribing the locus amoenus with the nefas of civil war in such a manner that it redefines the perception of landscape in the succeeding Flavian poets. Lucan perverts the landscape, making the locus horridus, a landscape of horror, fear and disgust, the predominant landscape of Latin epic; consequently, the poems of Valerius, Statius and Silius engage with Lucan's refiguration of landscape as a means of expressing the horror of civil war. In the first part of my thesis I examine archetypal landscapes, including those of the Augustan poets and Lucan's Bellum Civile. Taking an approach which engages with literary reception theory and the concept of the â horizon of expectationâ as a framework within which literary topographies can be understood as articulating a response to the thematics of civil war, in the second part of my thesis I demonstrate the manner in which landscapes represent a coherent and paradigmatic response to Lucan's imposition of his civil war narrative within the literary landscape of Roman literature
Facta et dicta memorabilia
No full textBogensignaturen: A², a⁴, b⁸, c⁴, d⁸, e⁴, f⁸,g⁴, h⁸, i⁴, k⁸, l⁴, m⁸, n⁴, o⁸, p⁴, q⁸, r⁴, s⁸, t⁴, v⁸, x⁴, y⁸, z⁴, A⁸, B⁴, C⁸, D⁴, E⁸, F⁴, G⁷Titeleinfassung und DruckermarkeImpressum gemäss Kolophon auf Bl. G₇
Tabulae totius dialectices aliarum artium instrumenti ...
No full texta Cornelio Valerio Ultraiectino ...Bogensignaturen: A-I⁸, K⁴Druckermark
Valerius Maximus and Exemplum
No full textValerius Maximus' exempla collection, Facta et dicta memorabilia, has for a long time stayed out of focus of modern literary science. Viewed rather as a practical handbook for orators, it had earned criticism for its allegedly low literary value, especially in the first half of the 20th century. Although this view was later revised at least to some extent, and Valerius was admitted to have literary ambitions in so far that his work was characterized as an original literary achievement of an author who in his collection presented a summary of moral values and standards of his time, the interest in his work has stayed rather fragmented, with researchers preferring to analyze only its specific aspects (such as ethics, religion, historical reflection, etc.). This thesis aims for a comprehensive view of Valerius' collection as a whole against the analysis of theoretical interpretation of exemplum as preserved within the Roman theoretical rhetorical writings. The interpretation is performed by the analysis of the whole, examining the way the entire collection is arranged, through the description of the structure and division of individual chapters, down to the level of the core structural unit, the exemplum. It emphasizes information related to the work's focus or to the inclusion of specific topics that Valerius..
Die Gartenlaube, 1882
No full textAn issue of Die Gartenlaube containing an article celebrating one hundred years of aeronautics, with illustrations of various historical airships (on pages 215-218).For more information about this item, visit https://archivesspace.mit.edu/repositories/2/digital_objects/73
Verecundia in Livy and Valerius Maximus
No full textThis thesis considers the ways in which Livy and Valerius Maximus integrate the Roman emotion verecundia into their exemplary pasts. It asks what nuance verecundia adds to the moral and historical narratives in which it is embedded. By so doing, this thesis achieves three interwoven objectives. It deepens our understanding of how verecundia was conceptualised during the Principate; provides new interpretations of the ways in which literature explored and engaged the (exemplary) past to explore moral issues; and, consequently, reveals something of the concerns of each author within their socio-political milieu. Both Livy and Valerius Maximus extend and adapt Cicero's philosophical conceptualisation of verecundia as a moral quality that regulates appropriate behaviour. Livy's use of verecundia reflects an anxiety about ethical governance and its effect on Rome's imperial reputation, which challenges traditional understandings of Livy as a patriotic author whose history legitimises Roman hegemony. Complementary analysis of Valerius Maximus' collection of moral-didactic anecdotes (exempla) reveals the complex workings of verecundia as a social mechanism which produces 'correct' behaviour. Valerius' assertion that domestic officium et verecundia are the foundation of territorial acquisitions extends Livy's thinking as it recognises a symbiotic relationship between the behaviour of the Roman elite and their imperial endeavours. Comparison of Livy and Valerius' treatment of verecundia in episodes about women exposes how gendered assumptions about proper female conduct have distorted modern scholarship's translation and interpretation of the original Latin texts. This thesis demonstrates that verecundia was understood as a vital social, political, and cultural quality that was integral to recognisably honourable action in all spheres of life, both at home and abroad.</p
Gradivus földművesei (Valerius Flaccus 5, 142: ruricolae, Gradive, tui)
No full textValerius Flaccus Argonauticája 5, 142 ruricolae, Gradive, tui kifejezésének értelmezése vitatott: az apollóniosi eredeti mögött valószínűleg egy a görög költő által még ismert, a vasérc mosására vonatkozó forrás állt. Apollónios Rhodios Chalybsökről adott, általa még szó szerint értett információit Valerius Flaccus fordítása a vaskorhoz kapcsolódó római képzetek jegyében romanizálva, metaforikus értelemben adja vissza.
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The interpretation of the expression ’ruricolae, Gradive, tui’ from the Argonautica 5, 142 of Valerius Flaccus is controversial: behind the original of Apollonios most probably there was a fountain referring to the cleaning of iron ore, which was known by the Greek author. The information given by Apollonios Rhodios about Chalybes, which were taken by him literally, were interpreted by Valerius Flaccus in a romanized, metaphoric sense, of Roman ideas regarding the iron age
C. Valerius Catullus;
No full textSeparate from "Programm"--K. Gymnasium, Salzwedel.Mode of access: Internet
Multiple factors prevent transcriptional interference at the yeast ARO4-HIS7 locus
No full textIncreased transcriptional activity may cause transcriptional interference in organisms with compact genomes such as the Yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Replacement of the yeast ARO4 promoter by the stronger ACTI promoter increases ARO4 transcription and simultaneously reduces the basal transcription of the downstream HIS7 gene. The open reading frames of ARO4 and HIS7 are tandemly transcribed and are separated by 416 bp. In wild-type cells, a nuclease-resistant site suggests that the two genes are separated by a single positioned nucleosome. Transcriptional interference correlates with Micrococcus nuclease accessibility of this otherwise nuclease-resistant site. Deletion analyses of the region between the two open reading frames revealed that transcriptional interference increases upon removal of either parts of the ARO4 3' end or HIS7 promoter sequences. The abolishment of the Abf1p-binding site within the HIS7 promoter significantly enhances transcriptional interference, resulting in a histidine auxotrophic strain. Our data suggest that the yeast cell prevents transcriptional interference by the combined action of efficient ARO4 transcription termination, the positioning of a fixed nucleosome, and transcription factor binding to the HIS7 promoter
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