Place Settings: Convivium, Contrast, and Persona in Catullus 12 and 13

Nappa, Christopher

doi:10.1353/ajp.1998.0041

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“…For some suggested interpretations of the Catullan passage, see Quinn 1973: ad loc. ;Littman 1977;Hallett 1978;Witke 1980;Kilpatrick 1998;Nappa 1998;Karakasis 2005: 105-13;Butler 2010Butler : 98-9, 106-7, 2015. This is the position taken (e.g.)…”

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Bodily Fluids in Antiquity

Bradley¹,

Leonard²,

Totelin³

2021

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From ancient Egypt to Imperial Rome, from Greek medicine to early Christianity, this volume examines how human bodily fluids influenced ideas about gender, sexuality, politics, emotions, and morality, and how those ideas shaped later European thought.Comprising 24 chapters across seven key themes-language, gender, eroticism, nutrition, dissolution, death, and afterlife-this volume investigates bodily fluids in the context of the current sensory turn. It asks fundamental questions about physicality and fluidity: how were bodily fluids categorised and differentiated? How were fluids trapped inside the body perceived, and how did this perception alter when those fluids were externalised? Do ancient approaches complement or challenge our modern sensibilities about bodily fluids? How were religious practices influenced by attitudes towards bodily fluids, and how did religious authorities attempt to regulate or restrict their appearance? Why were some fluids taboo and others cherished? In what ways were bodily fluids gendered? Offering a range of scholarly approaches and voices, this volume explores how ideas about the body and the fluids it contained and externalised are culturally conditioned and ideologically determined. The analysis encompasses the key geographic centres of the ancient Mediterranean basin, including Greece, Rome, Byzantium, and Egypt. By taking a longue durée perspective across a richly intertwined set of territories, this collection is the first to provide a comprehensive, wide-ranging study of bodily fluids in the ancient world.Bodily Fluids in Antiquity will be of particular interest to academic readers working in the fields of classics and its reception, archaeology, anthropology, and ancient to Early Modern history. It will also appeal to more general readers with an interest in the history of the body and history of medicine.

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Bodily Fluids in Antiquity

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Totelin³

2021

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Cum tacent, clamant:The Pragmatics of Silence in Catullus

McNeill

2010

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The Scent of a Woman

Butler¹

2010

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At Aeneid 1.691-94, Venus sets Ascanius down to sleep on a bed of aromatic marjoram; Servius seizes the opportunity to recount the origins of perfume. Revealing that the note is no antiquarian coincidence, this article argues that the Vergilian passage and others in Greek and Latin poetry echo, to important effect, the remarkable tradition of one of antiquity's most famous fragrances. Along the way, an investigation of botanical and medical sources clarifies our picture of how perfume was used, explaining the vicious humor of a passage in Lucretius and suggesting a new solution to a famous interpretive crux regarding Catullus 13.

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Place Settings: Convivium, Contrast, and Persona in Catullus 12 and 13

Cited by 6 publications

References 18 publications

Bodily Fluids in Antiquity

Bodily Fluids in Antiquity

Cum tacent, clamant:The Pragmatics of Silence in Catullus

The Scent of a Woman

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