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From: Studi Medievali[(essay date 1967) In the following essay, Davis considers broadly the significance of Brunetto’s influence in the development of Florentine culture, especially in terms of his understanding of Cicero. Davis also...
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From: Translating Desire in Medieval and Early Modern Literature[(essay date 2005) In the following essay, Hayton offers a sociopolitical reading of Brunetto’s allegorical poem. Hayton concludes that, as the poem’s protagonist “learns how to navigate exile and loss, faction and...
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From:Reference Guide to World Literature (2nd ed.)Among the classical Latin poets Ovid stands in the highest rank. He may be inferior to Virgil in depth of feeling and in seriousness of purpose, but as a poet of wit and sensibility and of verbal and narrative skill he...
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From:Helios (Vol. 26, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedScholars have tended to focus on the obscenity of Catullus' C. 37 for obvious reasons. This infamous indictment of Lesbia and her sexual partners was, not surprisingly, placed among C. J. Fordyce's collection of...
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From:Philological Quarterly (Vol. 79, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedBy writing the Amoretti as a Petrarchan sonnet sequence that leads to the marriage celebrated in the Epithalamion, Spenser faced a structural problem: not only does Petrarch's Rime sparse not contain imagery of the kind...
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From:The Classical Journal (Vol. 103, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedAbstract: An examination of the nine fragments attributed to Terpander (some in ancient sources, some by modern editors) suggests that none is securely assigned to him. Indeed, the evidence suggests that most circulated...
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From:The Classical Quarterly (Vol. 45, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedOvid offers advice to women on concealing defects in their physical appearance in 'Ars Amatoria.' Some scholars have interpreted his advice to refer to suggestions on colors of clothing, but correcting the lines to refer...
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From:Akroterion (Vol. 53) Peer-ReviewedIn Catullus' poem 68 he compares his beloved, generally identified as Lesbia, to the mythological figure of Laodamia in a long simile covering 57 lines. Laodamia epitomises the ideal wife, both passionate and loyal and...
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From:The Classical Quarterly (Vol. 46, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedThe 'Carmen Saeculare' is an ambivalent proclamation of the return of a golden age. The poem commissions a public festival, invoking Diana and Phoebus in Emperor Augustus's time. Scholars typically assume that the poem...
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From:Philological Quarterly (Vol. 80, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedBecause Milton was preoccupied with the shape of his own poetic career, many of the works he wrote before Paradise Lost reflect his long-term plan to write a great epic and his anxiousness about when and how he would...
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From:Helios (Vol. 29, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedThanks to recent literary scholarship, a number of characters in Augustan poetry have been gaining greater power over the texts in which they appear. No longer content to act their part for the pleasure of the reader,...
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From:The Classical Quarterly (Vol. 45, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedOvid's heroine states her purpose in the couplet that begins her epistle and establishes the theme that will be apparent throughout the epistle. The list of Medea's past services to Jason enumerated by Euripides receive...
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From:The Classical Quarterly (Vol. 45, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedDoubts about the Callimachean authorship of the epigram about Pittacus and his advice about marriage have been a barrier to its understanding and appreciation. Some scholars view the work as flat and overly long....
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From:The Classical Quarterly (Vol. 45, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedCatullus characterizes the gift he is offering to Cornelius Nepos as new, charming and refined in his dedicatory poem. The reason for the offering is the goodwill that Nepos has shown his poetry. He then praises Nepos'...
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From:Helios (Vol. 26, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedAlthough critics normally begin their discussions of Sappho's "Hymn to Aphrodite" (1 LP) with the assumption that the poem has the structure of a prayer, (1) they do not tend to incorporate an appreciation of how a...
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From:Notes and Queries (Vol. 44, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedWriter Henry More's the 'Praeexistency of the Soul' made use of allusions to the classics which are distorted by modern intermediaries and the revelation of motifs from which he based them from. He made use of ancient...
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From:Helios (Vol. 29, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedI. Introduction In a recent study of Valerius Flaccus's Argonautica, Debra Hcrshkowitz raises the issue of "meta-dissimulation" in the poem, that is, the way in which the text seems to strive to mislead the reader at...
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From:The Classical Quarterly (Vol. 45, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedThe use of 'obstrusaque' in the lines in Ovid's 'Metamorphoses' that describe nature's mourning after the death of Orpheus does not make sense in the context. Correcting the word to 'abstrusaque' would translate the...
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From:Southwest Review (Vol. 99, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedI I want to begin with a few acknowledgments: I have borrowed a good part of my title from Stanley Fish. I have enclosed my partly borrowed title in quotation marks in the manner of Leslie Fiedler, whose essay, "Come...
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From:The Classical Quarterly (Vol. 45, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedWhat follows is a list of corrections to my `Discordia taetra: the history of a hexameter-ending', CQ 41 (1991), 138 49. Most of these are owed to the researches of Dr Nigel Holmes, author of the preceding article, and I...