Juno trains her chorus: Statius, Thebaid 12.464-480
May 2023
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Journal article
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Athenaeum
This article explores the presence of tragedy in Book 12 of the Thebaid. It argues that the description of the entry of the Argive women into Athens and appeal for assistance in securing burial for their dead fathers, husbands, and sons depend closely on the equivalent scene at Eleusis in the Supplices of Euripides. In particular, it argues that Statius employs technical terms for the training and bringing on stage of a tragic chorus both as a figure of allusion acknowledging the scene’s debt to Euripides and in order to indicate that it is only through tragic appeal to the emotions that this epic poem can reach an ending. The final section of the paper considers briefly what are the implications of its findings for the interpretation of the closing scenes of the poem.
Vergil's Second Eclogue and the Class Struggle
October 2016
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Journal article
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Classical Philology
Lucan’s Caesar and Laelius
July 2016
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Chapter
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Wordplay and Powerplay in Latin Poetry
It is the premise of this volume that the contexts of composition, performance, and reception play a critical role in constructing poetic voices as either politically favorable or dissenting, and however much the individual scholars in this ...
Literary Criticism
Illa domus, illa mihi sedes
November 2015
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Chapter
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Latin Literature and its Transmission
Food in Latin Literature
August 2015
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Chapter
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A Companion to Food in the Ancient World
A Companion to Food in the Ancient World presents a comprehensive overview of the cultural aspects relating to the production, preparation, and consumption of food and drink in antiquity.