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Lucretius' Apocalyptic Imagination
Full text linkThis essay discusses the apocalyptic features of Lucretius’ de rerum natura, suggesting a comparison with texts belonging to the corpus of Hellenistic Jewish pseudepigrapha; the description of the plague as a final ‘apocalypse’ with political and eschatological implications; and the connection between these aspects of the poem, the eschatological ten- sions in 1st century bce Rome, and those manifested in Hellenistic Jewish apocalypses
Nonnus' Actaeon: Destiny in a Name
No full textAn explanation of the etymological connection between Actaeon's name and his unfortunate experience as a viewer
Virgilio a Strasburgo: gli autori di Richard Heinze
No full textRichard Heinze’s Virgil’s Epic Technique marks a milestone in Virgilian criticism, which in the century before its publication had largely kept close to the Romantic lack of appreciation for the Aene/dvis â vis Homeric epic. While Heinze’s philological approach has already been investigated, less attention has been devoted to identifying and analyzing his frequent references to French and German authors from the XVIIIth century onwards. This paper argues that Heinze’s familiarity with those authors and their poetics is a key component of his innovative reading of Vir- gil’s poem and accounts for some of his more original insights
Materiam superabat opus: Lucretius Metamorphosed
No full textOvid's narrative of Phaethon's failed attempt prematurely to emulate his father in his unique expertise can be read as a reflection on the virtues and limits of Lucretius' philosophical poetry. The paper suggests that, while he gives much credit to the De Rerum Natura's literary quality and its striving for the sublime, Ovid also critiques the hubristic connotations of Lucretius' rejection of divine authority and agency from the workings of nature. The second part of the article explores how this particular version of the myth touches upon issues of poetic authority, political positioning, and Oedipal competition. Copyright © The Author(s) 2014. Published by The Society for the Promotion of Roman Studies.Ovid's reading of Lucretius, esp. in connection with the sublim
Varro and Lucretius on the End of the World
No full textThe article discusses the possible reciprocal influences of the two authors on the issue of eschatology, which is also relevant to the dating of Varro's Menippeans
Review of M. Gorey, Matthew M. Gorey, Atomism in the Aeneid: physics, politics, and cosmological disorder
No full textA discussion of atomism in the Aeneid in the light of a recent publicatio
Furthest Voices in Virgil's Dido (I) (II)
No full textThe paper investigates the structural relationship between Virgil’s Dido and Euripides’ Medea, and highlights the potential violence lurking behind Dido’s attitude towards Aeneas. The intertextual connection allows for a more nuanced reading of their relationship, which is then charted through later imitations and explored in its more general import for the interpretation of the poem
Ovid's Aeginian plague and the ending of De rerum natura (with a correction to Lucr. VI 1249)
No full textA comparison with the final lines of Ovid’s narrative of the plague at Aegina
(met. VII 608-613) offers elements in support of the transposition of De rerum natura VI
1247-1251 to the end of the book, first suggested by Bockemüller. At line VI 1249 leto should be read instead of Marullus’ in lectum
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