DOCSLIB.ORG

Philaenis in Martial, Epigram VII, 67 Sandra Boehringer

Total Page：16

File Type：pdf, Size：1020Kb

Download full-text PDF Read full-text
Philaenis in Martial, Epigram VII, 67 Sandra Boehringer Not a Freak But a Jack-in-the-Box: Philaenis In Martial, Epigram VII, 67 Sandra Boehringer To cite this version: Sandra Boehringer. Not a Freak But a Jack-in-the-Box: Philaenis In Martial, Epigram VII, 67. Archimède : archéologie et histoire ancienne, UMR7044 - Archimède, 2018, 5, pp.83-94. hal- 01800658v2 HAL Id: hal-01800658 https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-01800658v2 Submitted on 17 Jun 2018 HAL is a multi-disciplinary open access L’archive ouverte pluridisciplinaire HAL, est archive for the deposit and dissemination of sci- destinée au dépôt et à la diffusion de documents entific research documents, whether they are pub- scientifiques de niveau recherche, publiés ou non, lished or not. The documents may come from émanant des établissements d’enseignement et de teaching and research institutions in France or recherche français ou étrangers, des laboratoires abroad, or from public or private research centers. publics ou privés. ARCHIMÈDE N°5 ARCHÉOLOGIE ET HISTOIRE ANCIENNE 2018 Marie AUGIER Patricia HORVAT Sylvain BADEY Christine HUE-ARCÉ Claudia BELTRÃO Florent JODRY Marion BERRANGER Daniela LEFÈVRE-NOVARO Ruby BLONDELL Eugene O’CONNOR Sandra BOEHRINGER Deborah KAMEN Michel BRIAND Matthieu MICHLER Louise BRUIT ZAIDMAN Annalisa PARADISO Julien BRUYÈRE Sandra PÉRÉ-NOGUÈS Luisella CABBOÏ Olivier PUTELAT Gael CARTRON James ROBSON Hélène CASTELLI Yvonne RÖSCH Patrick CLERC Bertrand ROSEAU Carmen DAMOUR Marie-Laure SRONEK Marina HAWORTH Marieke VAN ES REVUE , RCHIMeDE ARCHÉOLOGIE ET HISTOIRE ANCIENNE Directeur de la revue : Michel HUMM Rédacteurs en chef : Sandra Boehringer & Airton Pollini N°5 ARCHÉOLOGIE ET HISTOIRE ANCIENNE 2018 OSSIER THÉATIQUE : HUOEROTICA 1 Ruby BLONELL et Sandra BOEHRINGER Humour et érotisme dans l’Antiquité grecque et romaine. Introduction au dossier 7 arina HAWORTH The Wolf sh Lover: The Dog as a Comic Metaphor in Homoerotic Symposium Pottery 24 James ROBSON Whoring, Gaping and Hiding Meat: The Humour of Male-on-Male Sexual Insults in Aristophanes’ Knights 35 Carmen AOUR De qui se moque-t-on ? Les travestis sur la scène de l’Assemblée des femmes d’Aristophane 49 eborah KAEN The Consequences of Laughter in Aeschines’ Against Timarchos 57 Yvonne RÖSCH Hunting Hares and Lovers: Socrates’ Playful Lesson in Xenophon, Memorabilia III, 11 71 Eugene O’CONNOR Aroused by Laughter: Martial’s Priapic Humor u 83 Sandra BOEHRINGER with the artistic collaboration of arjolaine FOURTON Not a Freak but a Jack-in-the-Box: Philaenis in Martial, Epigram 7, 67 95 ichel BRIAN Des mœurs sexuelles des Sélénites (Lucien, Histoires vraies, I, 22) : entre satire queer et constructionnisme incarné, le sexe qui donne à rire et à penser 108 ACTUALITÉ E LA RECHERCHE : ES FEES PUBLIQUES. GENRE, VISIBILITÉ ET SOCIABILITÉ ANS L’ANTIQUITÉ GRECQUE ET ROAINE 185 VARIA 246 LA CHRONIQUE ’ARCHIÈE Retrouvez tous les articles de la revue AMD sur http://archimede.unistra.fr/revue-archimede/ REVUE , RCHIMeDE ARCHÉOLOGIE ET HISTOIRE ANCIENNE NOT A FREAK BUT A JACK-IN-THE-BOX: PHILAENIS IN MARTIAL, EPIGRAM VII, 67 Sandra BOEHRINGER Maîtresse de conférences en histoire grecque Université de Strasbourg UMR 7044 Archimède with the artstc collaboraton of [email protected] Marjolaine FOURTON Agrégée d’histoire Élève de l’École Normale Supérieure de Lyon [email protected] ABSTRACT Comment comprendre les épigrammes satiriques et sexuelles de Martial ? Et surtout comment percevoir l’humour de ces How are we to understand Martial’s satirical and sexual epi- caricatures si crues et si violentes ? Cette étude se concen- grams? And, especially, how are we to perceive the humour trera sur une fgure particulière, celle du personnage de in these caricatures, which are so coarse and violent? This Philaenis, une femme qui se trouve désignée à deux reprises essay focuses on a particular fgure, that of the Philaenis par Martial par le terme de tribas et qui se livre à diférents character, a woman whom Martial twice characterises as types d’activités (érotiques, sportives, alimentaires). a tribas. The character is portrayed as performing various Cet article montre qu’une lecture trop axée sur des consi- types of activities (touching on sex, sports, and food). dérations morales nous empêche de percevoir un aspect This study shows that a reading relying too heavily on moral important de l’humour de Martial. Si, à la lumière des travaux considerations may keep us from perceiving an import- de M. Foucault et D. Halperin, on prend en considération ant aspect of Martial’s humour. If, following the work of les catégories propres d’une société before sexuality et si M. Foucault and D. Halperin, we take into account the l’on cesse de se focaliser sur les pratiques sexuelles, on appropriate categories for a society ‘before sexuality’, and constate tout d’abord que le personnage mis en scène dans stop focusing on sexuality, we can see right away that the ce poème est avant tout un être en character staged in this poem is in the frst place a being action. Rythme mécanique, gestes in action. Mechanical rhythm, awkward maladroits et socialement inappro- and socially inappropriate gestures: an priés : une analyse du rire et de l’hu- Mots-clés analysis of laughter and humor adapted mour adaptée au contexte antique et Keywords Genre, Gender, to the ancient context and combined combinée avec une historicisation des sexualité, sexuality, with a historicizing approach to sexual catégories sexuelles permet de perce- humour, humor, categories allows us to perceive the voir la mise en scène, non pas d’une corps, body, poem as staging not a reversal (of sex inversion (de genre ou d’« orientation satire, homosexuality, homosexualité, or “sexual orientation”) but a comic sexuelle »), mais d’un détournement lesbianism, lesbianisme, tribas, misappropriation of the societal norms comique des normes de sociabilité du tribas, sport. of a (male) Roman citizen. citoyen romain. sport. Article accepté après évaluation par deux experts selon le principe du double anonymat 83 ARCHIMÈDE Archéologie et histoire Ancienne N°5 2018 - p. 83 à 94 Dossier « Humoerotica » There can be no doubt that Martial’s epigrams were and Roman world of what, in an equally anachronis- funny to the Romans, particularly when we consider tic fashion, one might refer to as “eroticism”. This what great care the poet took with his piquant fnal new way of apprehending sexuality, which breaks the twists or “points”. But what kind of humor is this thread that used to link ancient Greek pederasty and exactly? And what roles do sex and eroticism play in modern homosexuality and creates a conceptual gap the poem’s comedy? This essay will focus on a specifc between modern sexuality and erotic experience in epigram of Martial which has caused a lot of ink to antiquity [6], has opened up a new perspective on fow among classicists: it has not only given rise to ancient societies: instead of looking for our modern numerous interpretations – often contradictory and categories in these contexts, subsequent scholarship sometimes even absurd – but it has even made some attempts to identify the categories specifc to each contemporary readers laugh. But – and this is the society and each period of antiquity, in which con- question – is their laughter the same kind of laughter temporary categories may be subdivided, distributed, as that of the Romans [1] ? or overlap. Thus, in Greece as in Rome, there is no Before looking at the poem, it is crucial to raise a equivalent of the modern notion of sexuality, as the few points about method. The categories of sexuality set of discourses, norms and human practices involved current in our contemporary societies do not match in the personal and psychological construction of the Roman perceptions of erotic practices. Similarly, as individual, whose emergence during the 19th century numerous scholars have shown over the last three was demonstrated by Michel Foucault and further decades – with many following the path opened up elaborated by Arnold I. Davidson [7]. The set of prac- by Michel Foucault in his History of Sexuality [2] – in tices that we group under the heading of “sexual” societies “before sexuality” such practices were not emerge from various cultural felds, and can be cul- assigned the same cultural and social functions as turally tied to or integrated with areas that can seem, they are today [3]. Thanks to this work, the history to a western scholar of the 21st century, very distant of sexuality has become a fertile feld of investiga- from what we now call “sexuality”. This discovery tion; new aspects of ancient societies have become renders obsolete any attempt to categorize ancient clear to us [4]. To posit societies “before sexuality” practices through the opposition between “homo- is to admit that what we perceive as sexuality is a sexuality” and “heterosexuality”, and any impulse “relatively recent and highly culture-specifc [form] of to establish delimited and consistent “sexual norms” erotic life” [5]: it does not correspond to the Greek that would apply to all areas of human activity [8]. [1] I warmly thank Ruby Blondell, for her friendship, her Sexuality. The Construction of Erotic Experience in the sound advice, and for help with translating the text, and Ancient World (Halperin et alii 1990, French translation Kirk Ormand for his enthusiastic support. A big thank you forthcoming from Epel). to Marjolaine Fourton for her invaluable collaboration and [4] Among all the recent publications, see especially her “artistic eye”, which made a signifcant contribution in understanding the text, and to Thaïs Breton for her indis- the collections by Masterson, Rabinowitz & Robson pensable assistance and for editing the video. 2015; Blondell & Ormand 2015; Hubbard 2014. This paper was presented at the annual meeting of the [5] Halperin 1990: 9. Society for Classical Studies in New Orleans on January 9, [6] Halperin 1990. 2015, as part of a panel organized by Ruby Blondell and Kate Topper.
Load more

Recommended publications
  • Heather Juliussen-Stevenson, M.A., 2008
    ABSTRACT Title of Document: PERFORMING CHRISTIAN FEMALE IDENTITY IN ROMAN ALEXANDRIA. Heather Juliussen-Stevenson, M.A., 2008 Directed By: Professor Kenneth Holum, Ph.D., History Department The Christian women of Roman Alexandria are something of a mystery, but they were integral to the transformation of religion. They Christianized the space they occupied, their bodies becoming houses for sanctity. While it is difficult to verify the accuracy of male representations of female subjects, discourse exposes the underlying assumptions upon which gender was understood. Reformed prostitutes, women who traveled to the shrine at Menouthis, collectors of pilgrim flasks from Abu Menas who sat in front of the Virgin Mary fresco at Kom el-Dikka, and virgins who shut themselves away—none of these women may have thought of themselves as men suggested. Yet when men referenced the feminine, they introduced alterity, indicating resistance to a master discourse or even competition among rival discourses. This negotiation, combined with a daily expression of agency through the use of space, reveals how women must have asserted their rights to salvation. PERFORMING CHRISTIAN FEMALE IDENTITY IN ROMAN ALEXANDRIA. By Heather Juliussen-Stevenson. Thesis submitted to the Faculty of the Graduate School of the University of Maryland, College Park, in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Masters of Arts 2008 Advisory Committee: Professor Kenneth Holum, Ph.D., Chair Professor Arthur Eckstein, Ph.D. Assistant Professor Janna Wasilewski, Ph.D. © Copyright by Heather Juliussen-Stevenson 2008 Acknowledgements I am extremely grateful for the advice and support of Drs. Holum, Eckstein and Wasilewski. In addition, I would like to thank my brother, my favorite sibling.
    [Show full text]
  • December 3, 1992 CHAPTER VIII
    December 3, 1992 CHAPTER VIII: EARLY HELLENISTIC DYNAMISM, 323-146 Aye me, the pain and the grief of it! I have been sick of Love's quartan now a month and more. He's not so fair, I own, but all the ground his pretty foot covers is grace, and the smile of his face is very sweetness. 'Tis true the ague takes me now but day on day off, but soon there'll be no respite, no not for a wink of sleep. When we met yesterday he gave me a sidelong glance, afeared to look me in the face, and blushed crimson; at that, Love gripped my reins still the more, till I gat me wounded and heartsore home, there to arraign my soul at bar and hold with myself this parlance: "What wast after, doing so? whither away this fond folly? know'st thou not there's three gray hairs on thy brow? Be wise in time . (Theocritus, Idylls, XXX). Writers about pederasty, like writers about other aspects of ancient Greek culture, have tended to downplay the Hellenistic period as inferior. John Addington Symonds, adhering to the view of the great English historian of ancient Greece, George Grote, that the Hellenistic Age was decadent, ended his Problem in Greek Ethics with the loss of Greek freedom at Chaeronea: Philip of Macedon, when he pronounced the panegyric of the Sacred Band at Chaeronea, uttered the funeral oration of Greek love in its nobler forms. With the decay of military spirit and the loss of freedom, there was no sphere left for that type of comradeship which I attempted to describe in Section IV.
    [Show full text]
  • Classical Memories/Modern Identities Paul Allen Miller and Richard H
    CLASSICAL MEMORIES/MODERN IDENTITIES Paul Allen Miller and Richard H. Armstrong, Series Editors All Rights Reserved. Copyright © The Ohio State University Press, 2015. Batch 1. All Rights Reserved. Copyright © The Ohio State University Press, 2015. Batch 1. Ancient Sex New Essays EDITED BY RUBY BLONDELL AND KIRK ORMAND THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY PRESS • COLUMBUS All Rights Reserved. Copyright © The Ohio State University Press, 2015. Batch 1. Copyright © 2015 by The Ohio State University. All rights reserved. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Ancient sex : new essays / edited by Ruby Blondell and Kirk Ormand. — 1 Edition. pages cm — (Classical memories/modern identities) Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-0-8142-1283-7 (cloth : alk. paper) 1. Sex customs—Greece—History. 2. Sex customs—Rome—History. 3. Gender identity in literature. 4. Sex in literature. 5. Homosexuality—Greece—History. I. Blondell, Ruby, 1954– editor. II. Ormand, Kirk, 1962– editor. III. Series: Classical memories/modern identities. HQ13.A53 2015 306.7609495—dc23 2015003866 Cover design by Regina Starace Text design by Juliet Williams Type set in Adobe Garamond Pro Printed by Thomson-Shore, Inc. Cover image: Bonnassieux, Jean-Marie B., Amor clipping his wings. 1842. Close-up. Marble statue, 145 x 67 x 41 cm. ML135;RF161. Photo: Christian Jean. Musée du Louvre © RMN-Grand Palais / Art Resource, NY Bryan E. Burns, “Sculpting Antinous” was originally published in Helios 35, no. 2 (Fall 2008). Reprinted with permission. The paper used in this publication meets the minimum requirements of the American Na- tional Standard for Information Sciences—Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials.
    [Show full text]
  • Naked Power: the Phallus As an Apotropaic Symbol in the Images and Texts of Roman Italy
    University of Pennsylvania ScholarlyCommons Undergraduate Humanities Forum 2005-6: Word Penn Humanities Forum Undergraduate & Image Research Fellows 4-1-2006 Naked Power: The Phallus as an Apotropaic Symbol in the Images and Texts of Roman Italy Claudia Moser University of Pennsylvania, [email protected] Follow this and additional works at: https://repository.upenn.edu/uhf_2006 Part of the Classics Commons Moser, Claudia, "Naked Power: The Phallus as an Apotropaic Symbol in the Images and Texts of Roman Italy" (2006). Undergraduate Humanities Forum 2005-6: Word & Image. 11. https://repository.upenn.edu/uhf_2006/11 2005-2006 Penn Humanities Forum on Word & Image, Undergraduate Mellon Research Fellows. URL: http://humanities.sas.upenn.edu/05-06/mellon_uhf.shtml This paper is posted at ScholarlyCommons. https://repository.upenn.edu/uhf_2006/11 For more information, please contact [email protected]. Naked Power: The Phallus as an Apotropaic Symbol in the Images and Texts of Roman Italy Abstract Representations of the phallus abound in both the art and the literature of the first-century A.D. Roman world. On frescoes in both private homes and public buildings, on amulets, statues, etchings, tripods, drinking cups and vases, exaggerated phallic images, these purportedly apotropaic symbols protect the inhabitant, the passerby, the wearer, the user from outside evil. The contemporary Latin literature, Roman satire and elegy in particular (Catullus, Martial, Juvenal, Horace, Tibullus), and the Priapea, a collection of poems about the phallic god Priapus, offer descriptions of the phallus and its functions that both coincide with and differ from the material examples. This paper will investigate these correspondences and discrepancies between verbal and artistic representation, and, in particular, what these similarities and inconsistencies reveal about the public function of this private imagery in the contemporary culture of ancient Roman Italy.
    [Show full text]
  • Ovid on Cosmetics: and Related Texts
    Johnson, Marguerite. "Bibliography." Ovid on Cosmetics: and Related Texts. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2016. 143–158. Bloomsbury Collections. Web. 25 Sep. 2021. <http:// dx.doi.org/10.5040/9781474218696.0010>. Downloaded from Bloomsbury Collections, www.bloomsburycollections.com, 25 September 2021, 10:54 UTC. Copyright © Marguerite Johnson 2016. You may share this work for non-commercial purposes only, provided you give attribution to the copyright holder and the publisher, and provide a link to the Creative Commons licence. B i b l i o g r a p h y Ancient texts (Commentaries, editions and translations) Alexis ( 1959 ) Th e Fragments of Attic Comedy aft er Meineke, Bergk, and Kock , J. M. Edmonds ( Leiden : Brill ). Vol. 1 . —— ( 1996 ) Alexis : Th e Fragments: A Commentary , W. G e o ff rey Arnott ( Cambridge : Cambridge University Press ). Aristotle ( 1943 ) Generation of Animals , A . L . P e c k ( C a m b r i d g e , M a s s . : H a r v a r d University Press ). —— ( 1965 ) History of Animals , A. L. Peck ( Cambridge , Mass. : Harvard University Press ). Books I– III . —— ( 1970 ) History of Animals , A. L. Peck ( Cambridge , Mass. : Harvard University Press ). Books IV – VI . —— ( 1991 ) History of Animals, D . M . B a l m e a n d A . G o t t h e l f ( C a m b r i d g e , M a s s . : Harvard University Press ). Books VII –X. Athenaeus ( 1890 ) Athenaei Naucratitae deipnosophistarum libri xv , G . K a i b e l ( L e i p z i g : Teubner ).
    [Show full text]
  • Durham Research Online
    Durham Research Online Deposited in DRO: 12 May 2015 Version of attached le: Accepted Version Peer-review status of attached le: Peer-reviewed Citation for published item: Schachter, Marc (2015) 'Lesbian philology in early print commentaries on Juvenal and Martial.', in Ancient Rome and the construction of modern homosexual identities. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 39-55. Classical presences. Further information on publisher's website: http://ukcatalogue.oup.com/product/9780199689729.do Publisher's copyright statement: This is a draft of a chapter that was accepted for publication by Oxford University Press in the book 'Ancient Rome and the construction of modern homosexual identities' edited by Jennifer Ingleheart and published in 2015. Additional information: 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 DRO • 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 DRO policy for further details. Durham University Library, Stockton Road, Durham DH1 3LY, United Kingdom Tel : +44 (0)191 334 3042 | Fax : +44 (0)191 334 2971 https://dro.dur.ac.uk Chapter Two: Lesbian Philology in Early Print Commentaries on Juvenal and Martial Marc D. Schachter DRAFT—not to be cited without the author’s permission Scholars primarily concerned with vernacular traditions have explored the ways in which the reception of classical texts during the Renaissance influenced the representation of sex between women.1 In the pages that follow, I extend this exploration by considering early neo-Latin print commentaries on Martial’s Epigrams and Juvenal’s Satires.
    [Show full text]
  • Investigating the Ambiguities and Contradictions in the Representation
    Ghent University Faculty of Arts and Philosophy Investigating the ambiguities and contradictions in the representation of female same-sex desire in eighteenth- century erotica, particularly Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure. Paper submitted in partial Supervisor: fulfilment of the requirements Prof. Dr. Gert Beulens for the degree of “Bachelor in de Prof. Dr. Sandro Jung Taal- en Letterkunde: May 2011 Nederlands-Engels” by Hannah Eeckhout 1 Table of Contents 1. Introduction ......................................................................................................................................... 3 2. Historical context ................................................................................................................................ 4 2.1 Female sexuality in the eighteenth century ................................................................................... 4 2.1.1 The passionless woman .......................................................................................................... 6 2.1.2 Women of pleasure: prostitution in the eighteenth century .................................................... 8 2.2 Lesbianism in the eighteenth century ............................................................................................ 9 2.2.1 Representations of lesbianism in eighteenth-century erotica ............................................... 10 2.3 Eighteenth-century erotica .......................................................................................................... 12 3. Memoirs
    [Show full text]
  • And Marriage) Between Women Cameron, Alan Greek, Roman and Byzantine Studies; Summer 1998; 39, 2; Proquest Pg
    Love (and marriage) between women Cameron, Alan Greek, Roman and Byzantine Studies; Summer 1998; 39, 2; ProQuest pg. 137 Love (and Marriage) between Women Alan Cameron T USED TO BE THOUGHT that love between women in Greco­ Roman antiquity, though no doubt as common as at most I other periods of human history, was a subject the surviving male writers of the times either did not notice or could not bring themselves to mention. But an important book by Bernadette Brooten has revealed that there is more evidence than most of us had supposed. Almost all of it hostile, to be sure, but evidence nonetheless. There can be no question that she has expanded the frontiers of the subject, and that female homoeroticism is at last a viable area for research.l But not content with bringing her subject into the mainstream of modern scholarly study, Brooten went further and claimed that some women sought the public recognition of marriage for their relationships. Notoriously, John Boswell made the same claim about gay men in Roman and mediaeval times in his Same­ Sex Unions in Pre-modern Europe (1994). I have no intention of reopening that debate here, but it has to be said that his ancient evidence was particularly thin.2 At one point Brooten remarks casually that "Iamblichus was one of several second-century authors to write about marriage between women" (51). In fact her case rests essentially on four Greek texts: Lucian, Clement of 1 Bernadette J. Brooten, Love between Women: Early Christian Responses to Female Homoeroticism (Chicago 1996); see the reviews by Corey Brennan, BMCR 8 (1997) 506-515; Elizabeth Castelli, The Women's Review of Books 14.6 (1997) 15-16.
    [Show full text]
  • Tiberius on Capri and the Limits of Roman Sex Culture
    Tiberius on Capri and the Limits of Roman Sex Culture BILL GLADHILL McGill University [email protected] This paper examines Suetonius’ representation of Tiberius and sex on Capri at Vita Tiberii 43-44. Tiberian sex requires neologisms (sellaria, spintria) to define it; ancient paintings and obscure books are collected to give it shape and form; herds of prostitutes (greges) from everywhere (undique) are gathered to perform it; dehumanized children (pisciculi, Panisci) are fundamental to its articulation. While this passage is famously notorious, it has been relatively understudied, apart from discussions of certain lexical and sexual cruces1. Surely, Tiberius’ philhellenism and inclination to the obscure explain some of Suetonius’ material2. Likewise, brothels, erotic art and Roman elite gardens illuminate certain aspects of the narrative3. However, these various aspects do not sufficiently quantify the disturbing horror of Suetonius’ Caprineum. The emperor’s gravitational force is so great that it creates a sexual event horizon; nearly 1 — See, most notably, Hallett 1978, Clarke 1993: 287-88, Champlin 2010, and Hallet 2018. Scholars gesture to the passage in passing, of course, but extended exegesis (let alone translation) is generally avoided. 2 — Pollitt 1978:167-68, Houston 1989: 189-90, Rutledge 2008: 461-63. 3 — Clarke 1998, Bartman 2002, Newby 2012: 352. EuGeStA - n°8 - 2018 TIBERIUS ON CAPRI AND THE LIMITS OF ROMAN SEX CULTURE 185 every structuring category that might delineate and demarcate Roman sexuality is distorted, obscured and blurred4. Bodies are controlled and transformed. New functions and constructions of human embodiment are conceived. States of being become iterative replications of images imprinted in paint or on stone.
    [Show full text]
  • Medicamina Faciei Femineae and Related Texts
    O v i d o n C o s m e t i c s i Also available from Bloomsbury Ovid and his Love Poetry, Rebecca Armstrong Th e Metamorphosis of Ovid, Sarah Annes Brown Prescribing Ovid, Yasmin Haskell Ovid’s Myth of Pygmalion on Screen, Paula James Ovid’s ‘Metamorphoses’ , Genevieve Liveley Ovid: Love Songs, Genevieve Liveley ii Ovid on Cosmetics Medicamina Faciei Femineae and Related Texts M a r g u e r i t e J o h n s o n Bloomsbury Academic An imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc LONDON • OXFORD • NEW YORK • NEW DELHI • SYDNEY iii Bloomsbury Academic An imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc 50 Bedford Square 1385 Broadway London New York WC 1B 3 DP NY 10018 UK USA www.bloomsbury.com BLOOMSBURY and the Diana logo are trademarks of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc First published 2016 © Marguerite Johnson, 2016 Marguerite Johnson has asserted her right under the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act, 1988, to be identifi ed as Author of this work. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or any information storage or retrieval system, without prior permission in writing from the publishers. No responsibility for loss caused to any individual or organization acting on or refraining from action as a result of the material in this publication can be accepted by Bloomsbury or the author. British Library Cataloguing- in-Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library.
    [Show full text]
  • Mimiambic Poet
    Durham E-Theses The Bookish Turn: Assessing the Impact of the Book-Roll on Authorial Self- Representation in Early Hellenistic Poetry CHESTERTON, BARNABY How to cite: CHESTERTON, BARNABY (2016) The Bookish Turn: Assessing the Impact of the Book-Roll on Authorial Self- Representation in Early Hellenistic Poetry, Durham theses, Durham University. Available at Durham E-Theses Online: http://etheses.dur.ac.uk/11933/ 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 The Bookish Turn: Assessing the Impact of the Book-Roll on Authorial Self- Representation in Early Hellenistic Poetry Barnaby Chesterton Thesis submitted to the Department of Classics and Ancient History, Durham University, for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy 19th August, 2016 Table of Contents Abstract .....................................................................................................................................
    [Show full text]
  • Love, Lust and Literature in the Late Sixteenth Century
    Georgia Southern University Digital Commons@Georgia Southern Electronic Theses and Dissertations Graduate Studies, Jack N. Averitt College of Spring 2009 Love, Lust and Literature in the Late Sixteenth Century Kristin J. Johnson Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.georgiasouthern.edu/etd Recommended Citation Johnson, Kristin J., "Love, Lust and Literature in the Late Sixteenth Century" (2009). Electronic Theses and Dissertations. 165. https://digitalcommons.georgiasouthern.edu/etd/165 This thesis (open access) is brought to you for free and open access by the Graduate Studies, Jack N. Averitt College of at Digital Commons@Georgia Southern. It has been accepted for inclusion in Electronic Theses and Dissertations by an authorized administrator of Digital Commons@Georgia Southern. For more information, please contact [email protected]. LOVE, LUST AND LITERATURE IN THE LATE SIXTEENTH CENTURY by KRISTIN JOHNSON (Under the Direction of Julia Griffin) ABSTRACT I have chosen to focus on several poets of the “long 1590’s,” since I would argue that together they represent, for the first time, a confluence of literary love traditions that have previously existed independently across multiple centuries, nations and languages. First, I consider Ovid and the influence of the witty, Ovidian elegy love tradition as practiced by Christopher Marlowe and John Donne. Then I will discuss Petrarch and the serious sonnet sequence tradition, the influence of which is evident in the sonnet sequences of Sir Philip Sidney and Edmund Spenser. Next, since both the afore-mentioned love traditions are based outside of marriage, I will discuss how the reality of the place for marriage in society in the 1590’s and the literary representations of love and marriage create a gap, one that Edmund Spenser bridges with his joint publication of his sonnet sequence, Amoretti, with his marriage poem, Epithalamion.
    [Show full text]