Mimicking Virgins: Colonial Ambivalence and the Ancient Romance

Burrus, Virginia

doi:10.1353/are.2005.0003

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“…Early Christian identity was not shaped in a vacuum, but emerged and was configured from a complex web of power relations, institutions, values and norms, deriving from an already pre-packaged Hellenistic world. Burrus (2005) writes: "From the perspective of hindsight inevitably refracted through the lens of more recent experiences of empire and colonization, the ancient Mediterranean terrain unfurls as a scarred surface, layered with histories of conquest and traversed by passages between cultures only knowable as such retrospectively and problematically, in the moment of their mutual, agonistic differentiation -in the moment when purity is already 'lost.' She then uses a model of 'hybriditization' (2005:51) in an analysis of selected ancient romances, to demonstrate how culturally constructed forces 'collide and collude '" (2005:50,56).…”

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From the 'Domus' to the 'Spectaculum': Family and Martyrship in Early Christianity

Vorster

2013

Scriptura

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Early Christian martyr discourse combines two discursive practices, namely that of the household and the spectacle. How and why these practices are used in martyr discourse is enquired from the perspective of the dominance and pervasiveness of Roman normative culture and its formative effects on emerging early Christianity. Two martyr narratives namely the Passion of Perpetua and Felicitas and the Martyrs of Lyons are analysed to determine how household discourse has been integrated into the framework of the spectacle.

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From the 'Domus' to the 'Spectaculum': Family and Martyrship in Early Christianity

Vorster

2013

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“…8 Bartsch credits her own use of 'theatricality' and 'doublespeak' to James C. Scott's (1990) influential delineation of the 'arts of resistance.' 9 It should be noted that Burrus (2008), 'Torture and Travail,' long delayed in publication, was actually composed in the mid-1990s and anticipated the themes of later scholarship on martyr accounts; see too Cooper 1998. 10 Castelli also develops, within the context of spectacles, the significance of rival understandings of sacrifice by pagans and Christians (pp.…”

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“…Two of the most important and successful engagements with Bhabhan mimicry in the context of early Christian writings belong to Virginia Burrus and Rebecca Lyman. Burrus (2005) article is an analysis of the ancient Greek novel as it was used across the religious spectrum from ‘pagan,’‘Jewish,’ and ‘Christian’ positions. These are necessarily provisional labels, mattering less, as Burrus shows, than the shared commitment of four writings in question (including the early Christian ‘Acts of Paul and Thekla’) to use virginity as a platform for reflecting on the order of things.…”

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Early Christianity and the Discourse of Empire in the First Three Centuries CE

Frilingos

2010

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Did the setting of the Roman Empire make a difference to the way that early Christian texts defined or, more precisely, invented the religion of Christianity? If so, are traces of this difference perceptible in the writings of early Christians? The scholarship assembled here, generally speaking, answers both questions affirmatively: the context of empire affected the way that early Christians talked about themselves, others, and the world they inhabited. The study of the self‐definition of early Christians, this research contends, cannot be undertaken without recognizing the distinctive kinds of knowledge (of Self and Other) engendered by the ascendancy of the Roman Empire. The work is separated out under three rubrics: spectacle, borderlines, and mimicry. These categories reflect patterns that have emerged in the study of early Christian texts as they contributed to, appropriated, refracted, and resisted the discourse of empire in the first three centuries of the Common Era.

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“…24 Fanon (1952); Bhabha (1994). Burrus (2005) (1992), (1994), (1996); Stephens (1994); Morgan (1995). date but also a response by Roman readers unimpressed with the novel's quality, though the identification of Persius' 'Callirhoe' with Chariton's novel is far from secure and is only one option of several.…”

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“…24Fanon (1952); Bhabha (1994). Burrus (2005) employs the post-colonial theory of Bhabha to explore the Greek novels for ‘commonalities of colonial resistance’.…”

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THE ROMAN ARMY AND GREEK MILITARISM IN CHARITON'SCHAEREAS AND CALLIRHOE

Jolowicz

2018

Camb. class. j.

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This paper seeks to highlight and assess the presence of allusions to Roman military apparatus in Chariton'sChaereas and Callirhoe. In the introduction, I contextualise the argument within the history of scholarship on the novel, and discuss issues relating to the author's date, Aphrodisian provenance and readership. I then divide the argument into three parts. At the end of the novel, Chaereas returns to Syracuse and publicly displays the spoils won from the east in a manner that, I argue, is highly suggestive of the Roman triumph (Parti). He then extends a grant of citizenship to the Greek element of his army and issues them cash donatives, while Hermocrates gives farmland to the Egyptians. As I demonstrate, this is characteristic of what happens upon the demobilisation of Roman military manpower (especially theauxilia) (Partii). I then draw out the ramifications of an imperial-era author who represents Greek military exploits against the Persians, writing during a period in which Greeks were not interested in military endeavours (Partiii).

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Mimicking Virgins: Colonial Ambivalence and the Ancient Romance

Cited by 30 publications

References 30 publications

From the 'Domus' to the 'Spectaculum': Family and Martyrship in Early Christianity

From the 'Domus' to the 'Spectaculum': Family and Martyrship in Early Christianity

Early Christianity and the Discourse of Empire in the First Three Centuries CE

THE ROMAN ARMY AND GREEK MILITARISM IN CHARITON'SCHAEREAS AND CALLIRHOE

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