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An Intertextual Approach to Metapoetic Magic in Augustan Love-Elegy and Related Genres Durham E-Theses Asking for the Moon: An Intertextual Approach to Metapoetic Magic in Augustan Love-Elegy and Related Genres CHADHA, ZARA,KAUR How to cite: CHADHA, ZARA,KAUR (2014) Asking for the Moon: An Intertextual Approach to Metapoetic Magic in Augustan Love-Elegy and Related Genres, Durham theses, Durham University. Available at Durham E-Theses Online: http://etheses.dur.ac.uk/10559/ Use policy The full-text may be used and/or reproduced, and given to third parties in any format or medium, without prior permission or charge, for personal research or study, educational, or not-for-prot purposes provided that: • a full bibliographic reference is made to the original source • a link is made to the metadata record in Durham E-Theses • the full-text is not changed in any way The full-text must not be sold in any format or medium without the formal permission of the copyright holders. Please consult the full Durham E-Theses policy for further details. Academic Support Oce, Durham University, University Oce, Old Elvet, Durham DH1 3HP e-mail: [email protected] Tel: +44 0191 334 6107 http://etheses.dur.ac.uk 2 Abstract Asking for the Moon: An Intertextual Approach to Metapoetic Magic in Augustan Love- Elegy and Related Genres Zara Kaur Chadha This thesis offers a new perspective on the metapoetic use of magic in the love-elegies of Propertius, Tibullus, and Ovid, a theme which, though widely acknowledged in contemporary scholarship, has so far received little comprehensive treatment. The present study approaches the motif through its intertextual dialogues with magic in earlier and contemporary texts — Theocritus’ Idyll 2, Apollonius Rhodius’ Argonautica, Vergil’s Eclogue 8 and Horace’s Epodes — with the aim of investigating the origin and development of love-elegy’s self- construction as magic and of the association of this theme with poetic enchantment, deceit, and failure throughout the genre. While previous commentators have noted lexical and thematic similarities between magic in love-elegy and in other Augustan and Hellenistic poetic genres, they seldom pursue these parallels or interpret them as evidence of literary interaction. By reading these correspondences as signs of intertextual relationships, this thesis provides fresh examples of magic’s metapoetic function in love-elegy — including practical rites alongside the recognised polysemy of carmina — which add to its status as a defining metaphor for the genre. This investigation tackles the subject through two complementary themes and two complementary genres. It first focuses on the relationship between magic and elegiac carmina, which develops in dialogue with Vergilian and Theocritean pastoral; it then explores magic and the beauty of the puella in her roles as narrative beloved and literary construct through its interaction with Horatian iambic. The study ends with a retrospective on elegiac love-magic via Ovidian erotodidactic elegy which unites both themes and in which the motif provides a “shorthand” for the genre. More broadly, this approach demonstrates that literary love-magic in its most recognisable form acts as an avenue for close and dynamic communication between poets. 1 Asking for the Moon: An Intertextual Approach to Metapoetic Magic in Augustan Love-Elegy and Related Genres Zara Kaur Chadha PhD Classics and Ancient History Durham University 2013 2 Table of Contents ABSTRACT ........................................................................................................................ 1 TABLE OF CONTENTS .............................................................................................. 3 LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS ..................................................................................... 5 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS .......................................................................................... 7 INTRODUCTION ............................................................................................................ 8 CHAPTER 1. MAGIC BETWEEN PASTORAL AND ELEGY .............. 23 Theocritus Idyll 2 and Vergil Eclogue 8 ................................................................... 24 Propertius 1.1 .................................................................................................................... 35 Propertius 2.4 .................................................................................................................... 45 Tibullus 1.2 ......................................................................................................................... 51 Tibullus 1.8 ......................................................................................................................... 60 Propertius 2.28 .................................................................................................................. 64 Conclusion ......................................................................................................................... 71 CHAPTER 2. AEAEA CARMINA: OVID’S MAGIC WORDS ................. 73 Useless Wood: Amores 3.7 .............................................................................................. 76 Sealed with a Curse: Heroides 6 and 12 .................................................................... 81 Heroides 6 .............................................................................................................................. 88 Heroides 12 ............................................................................................................................ 98 Fool Me Twice: Remedia amoris ............................................................................... 103 Conclusion ....................................................................................................................... 113 CHAPTER 3. FAIREST OF THEM ALL? MAGIC AND THE PUELLA .......................................................................................................................... 115 Puellegy ............................................................................................................................. 116 A Question of Priority .................................................................................................. 126 Black Mirror: Horace’s iambic puella ..................................................................... 131 Epode 5 ................................................................................................................................. 135 Epode 17 ............................................................................................................................... 151 3 Spinning on a Dime: Propertius 3.6 ......................................................................... 166 Conclusion ....................................................................................................................... 175 CONCLUSION ............................................................................................................. 178 BIBLIOGRAPHY ....................................................................................................... 192 4 List of Abbreviations CIL Academiae Litterarum Regiae Borussicae (ed.) (1893), Corpus Inscriptiorum Latinarum, Georg Reimer, Berlin. DT Audollent, A. (ed.) (1904), Defixionum Tabellae Quotquot Innotuerunt Tam in Graecis Orientis Quam in Totius Occidentis Partibus Praeter Atticas, Minerva GmbH, Frankfurt/Main. DTA Wünsch, R. (ed.) (1897), Inscriptiones Graecae Vol. 3, Part 3, Appendix inscriptionum Atticarum: defixionum tabellae in Attica regione repertae, in Oikonomides, Al.N. (ed.) (1976), Inscriptiones Graecae IG I2, II/III2 Paraleipomena et Addenda: Inscriptiones Atticae Supplementum Inscriptionum Atticarum Vol. 1, The Scholar’s Reference Edition, Ares Publishers Inc., Chicago, pp.1- 250. Gager Gager, J.G. (ed.) (1992), Curse Tablets and Binding Spells from the Ancient World, Oxford University Press, Oxford. OLD Glare, P.G.W. (ed.) (1982), Oxford Latin Dictionary, Oxford University Press, Oxford. PDM Papyri Demoticae Magicae, in Betz, H.D. (ed.) (1986), The Greek Magical Papyri in Translation: Including the Demotic Spells, The University of Chicago Press, Chicago and London. PGM Papyri Graecae Magicae, in Preisendanz, K. and Heinrichs, A. (eds.) (1973-1974) (2nd ed.), Papyri Graecae Magicae: Die Griechischen Zauberpapyri I-II, B.G. Teubner, Stuttgart. Preisendanz Papyri Graecae Magicae, in Preisendanz, K. and Heinrichs, A. (eds.) (1973-1974) (2nd ed.), Papyri Graecae Magicae: Die Griechischen Zauberpapyri I-II, B.G. Teubner, Stuttgart. RE Pauly, A. and Wissowa, G. (eds.) (1830-1980), Real-Encyclopädie der classischen Altertumswissenschaft, Alfred Druckenmüller, Stuttgart. Suppl. Mag. Daniel, R.W. and Maltomini, F. (eds.) (trs.) (1990-1992), Supplementum Magicum I-II, Papyrologica Coloniensia Vol. XVI.1- 2, Westdeutscher Verlag, Opladen. TLL Thesaurus Linguae Latinae (1900-), B.G. Teubner, Leipzig. 5 The copyright of this thesis rests with the author. No quotation from it should be published without the author's prior written consent and information derived from it should be acknowledged. 6 Acknowledgements My supervisor, Peter Heslin, offered invaluable support, ideas, and time at every stage of my research and in its every aspect. I owe him great thanks for his confidence in me and in my work, for his kindness and patience in the face of my constant barrage of stress, and for his sense of humour; working with him has been a pleasure and a privilege. I also thank my secondary supervisor, Ivana Petrović,
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