The Solitary Feast: A Contradiction in Terms?

Braund, Susanna

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“…132 Taplin (2001) 194 and199. 133 E.g., Hainsworth (1991);Fantham (1996); Bloomer (1997); Braund (2002); Sharrock and Ash (2002); . The omission of Silius from Dominik, Garthwaite, and Roche (2009) is due to the non-delivery of a chapter.…”

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“…I have used the following translations with modifi cations: forSilius, Duff (1934); for Lucan,Braund (1992); forLivy, Foster (1969); and for Virgil,West (1990); all other translations are my own 4. On the association between Hannibal and Aeneas/Turnus, see Fernandelli(2006)88-101.…”

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“…15, as cited in Darwall-Smith (1996) 203. On the contraposition between Domitian's reclusiveness and Trajan's openness in particular, as described in ancient sources, seeBraund (1996). 122 Chronicle of 354, part 16; as cited inJones (1992) 81; Cooley (2015) 191.…”

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Flavian Responses to Nero's Rome

Heerink¹,

Meijer²

2022

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In this interdisciplinary volume, a team of classicists, historians, and archaeologists examines how the memory of the infamous emperor Nero was negotiated in different contexts and by different people during the ensuing Flavian age of imperial Rome. The contributions show different Flavian responses to Nero’s complicated legacy: while some aspects of his memory were reinforced, others were erased. Emphasizing the constant and diverse nature of this negotiation, this book proposes a nuanced interpretation of both the Flavian age itself and its relation to Nero’s Rome. By combining the study of these strategies with architectural approaches, archaeology, and memory studies, this volume offers a multifaceted picture of Roman civilization at a crucial turning point, and as such will have something to offer anyone interested in classics, (ancient) history, and archaeology.

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“…The role of the tyrant as nurturing but controlling patron is of course a well-established one, from Polycrates to Augustus, but pace Schmitzer, I wish to explore the parallelism between the tyrant and the poet embodied in one person, rather than dividing those roles between Pyreneus and the Muses. 37 Steiner's work on writing in Classical Greek 32 On the tyrant's gluttony: Braund (1996), Leigh (1997).…”

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A Brutal Hack: Tyranny, Rape, and the Barbarism of Bad Poetry in Ovid's Pyreneus Episode

Cowan

2020

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Poet-figures in Ovid's Metamorphoses have been the object of much study, especially those silenced by the powerful, but little attention has been given to Pyreneus. Immediately before the famous contest of the Muses and Pierides, the former briefly narrate their attempted rape by the usurping Thracian tyrant Pyreneus and his precipitous death while trying to fly after them. The few critics who have touched on this episode have tended to focus exclusively on one aspect, be it the poetic, sexual, political, or religious. None has provided a holistic interpretation which does justice to the complex interplay of these four dimensions or to Ovid's witty and characteristic reification of figurative language.Pyreneus is simultaneously an invading usurper, an attempted rapist, an impious theomach, and, on the poetic plane, a talentless plagiarist or derivative imitator, who tries to appropriate others’ work but bathetically and disastrously fails. The interrelation of these four roles, each troping the others, throws light on all, and Pyreneus needs to be contextualized among the Met.'s other tyrants, rapists, and theomachs, as well as its poet-figures. The episode itself, derivative and overstuffed with Ovidian motifs, is mimetic of the sort of narrative bad (would-be) poets like Pyreneus produce.

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The Solitary Feast: A Contradiction in Terms?

Cited by 6 publications

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Brill's Companion to Silius Italicus

Brill's Companion to Silius Italicus

Flavian Responses to Nero's Rome

A Brutal Hack: Tyranny, Rape, and the Barbarism of Bad Poetry in Ovid's Pyreneus Episode

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