Sulpicia and the Rhetoric of Disclosure

Flaschenriem, Barbara

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“…Holzberg (1998 posits a male author writing after Ovid. Flaschenreim (1999) provides a careful analysis of the poetic strategies of Sulpicia's erotic confessions in light of her status. 22 For a commentary on the poem's third book, see Gibson 2003.…”

Section: Women and Sexual Autonomy In Textual Sourcesmentioning

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Chains of gold: female status and the Roman 'catena' in the early Imperial period

Nelson

2023

Acta

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This article considers the Roman body chain (catena), which comprises two long lengths of woven gold chain worn crisscrossing the torso. Roman illustrations of women wearing catenae demonstrate that the form carried strongly erotic connotations relating to the goddess Venus and female sensuality. A small corpus of preserved body chains from the Vesuvian region testifies to their actual use by women in the first centuries BC and AD. This study examines the status of the women who wore such jewellery, which combined clear economic expense with erotic messaging. In opposition to claims that the sexual nature of body chains signals their association with prostitutes, it is argued here that visual and textual sources contemporaneous with the Vesuvian chains point to women of “respectable” social categories having both the freedom and incentive to express a confident sexual identity. Important archaeological evidence offers further indications for the ownership and use of catenae by Roman women of varying status. The potential meanings and motivations underlying the shared use of this symbolic form of adornment are also addressed. On cover:Late Roman wall, the portion immediately south of the West Gate (Porta Oea) with re-used blocks from first-century mausolea (Drawing by Francesca Bigi) and Tombstone of Regina from South Shields (Arbeia) (Tyne and WearArchives and Museums/ Bridgeman Images). E-ISSN (online version) 2611-3686 ISSN (print version) 0065-0900

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Section: Women and Sexual Autonomy In Textual Sourcesmentioning

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Chains of gold: female status and the Roman 'catena' in the early Imperial period

Nelson

2023

Acta

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“…For introductions to Sulpicia's work, see Bradley (1995), Snyder (1991), 128-136. Important articles on Sulpicia include Hallett (2002), Hinds (1987), Holzberg (1998), Hubbard (2004), Keith (1997), Lowe (1988), and Santirocco (1979); see also the chapters in Greene (2005), Flaschenriem (2005) and Merriam (2005).…”

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Optima tu proprii nominis auctor: The semantics of female authorship in ancient Rome, from Sulpicia to Proba

Hauser

2016

Eugesta

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This paper explores evidence for female authorship terminology in extant poetic texts written in Latin by women. It begins by first considering male authorship in Latin literature, before moving on to three case studies of women’s writing: an elegy by Sulpicia, an anonymous graffito from Pompeii, and the Virgilian cento of Proba. By foregrounding the ‘subversive mask’ of female poetic speech in Rome, the paper uncovers a subtextual rhetoric of authorship where female poets both respond to and subvert male authorship paradigms. It thus argues for the importance of analyzing authorship terminology in Latin literature through the lens of gender.

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Corpus Tibullianum, Book 3

Skoie

2012

A Companion to Roman Love Elegy

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Sulpicia and the Rhetoric of Disclosure

Cited by 52 publications

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Chains of gold: female status and the Roman 'catena' in the early Imperial period

Chains of gold: female status and the Roman 'catena' in the early Imperial period

Optima tu proprii nominis auctor: The semantics of female authorship in ancient Rome, from Sulpicia to Proba

Corpus Tibullianum, Book 3

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