Taking the Woman's Part: Engendering Roman Love Elegy

Wyke, Maria

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“…Five works, however, stand out as places to begin research: Gleason 1995, later essays in Foxhall and Salmon 1998, Williams 1999, the collection of essays by Hallett and Skinner 1997, and Edwards 1993. In addition, James 2003and Wyke 1994 are essential as feminist criticism on sexuality in Roman elegy. More recently, the 2012 Blackwell Companion to Roman Love Elegy, edited by Gold, provides a tremendous overview.…”

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Erotic Lyric

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Natoli²

2013

A Companion to Greek and Roman Sexualities

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2013

A Companion to Greek and Roman Sexualities

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“…13 -Pour différents points de vue sur l'identité genrée de l'élégie et sa reconduction / déstabilisation des catégories du genre, voir, entre autres, B. Gold 1993, A. Sharrock 1991a, M. Wyke 1994 14 -Pour ce sens des duri uersus figurant parmi les imperfections stylistiques qu'une bonne relecture doit corriger, voir Hor., AP, 445-446 : uersus ... / culpabit duros.…”

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Mollis – ἁπαλός : La démarche féminine des vers poétiques dans l’élégie romaine et ses modèles hellénistiques

Klein

2013

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Cet article se propose de voir dans l’elegidarion capillorum d’Eumolpe, qui fait l’éloge de la chevelure perdue d’Encolpe et de Giton, une attaque contre les afféteries stylistiques des poètes néo-callimachéens dont Ovide était, à l’époque impériale, considéré comme le modèle. Pour cela, le texte du Satiricon s’appuie sur une métaphore genrée de la critique littéraire qui caractérise comme efféminé un style inutilement alambiqué, avec l’image de la coiffure, des bouclettes et des frisottis d’une écriture trop précieuse. Dans cette « petite élégie capillaire » qui vise conjointement ses deux modèles « génériques », l’élégie d’Amours I, 14 et la Coma Berenices, nous observerons le jeu intertextuel complexe qui se noue par rapport à la poésie ovidienne, à laquelle Eumolpe emprunte non seulement l’utilisation métapoétique du thème de la coiffure en Am. I, 14, mais aussi la distinction genrée entre coiffure virile et coiffure féminine (ou efféminée) prônée par le magister amoris dans l’Art d’Aimer : en superposant ces deux hypotextes, l’elegidarion capillorum retourne le modèle ovidien contre lui-même, en faisant de la chevelure, qui figurait chez Ovide une poétique callimachéenne érudite et raffinée, la métaphore de l’écriture artificielle et creuse des compositions néo-alexandrines.

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“…This effeminate pudor is reiterated at Ach. 1.331, where Thetis' construction of Achilles' feminine external persona is completed with her teaching 46 For which see, for example, Wyke (1995), or (particularly for a Propertian take on the mollis amator) Greene (2005). 47 Also note laxare at Ach.…”

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Appropriate Transgression: An Intertextual Approach to Problems of Genre and Heroism in Statius' Achilleid

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Statius’ second epic poem, the Achilleid, deals with a subject matter that is particularly problematic: Achilles’ early life, in which he is raised by a centaur in the wilderness and then disguises himself as a woman in order to rape the princess of Scyros. Recent scholarship has also pointed to other problematic elements, such as Achilles’ troublesome relationship with his mother or the epic’s intertextual engagement with elegiac and ‘un-epic’ poetry. This thesis extends such scholarship by analysing Statius’ use of transgression in particular. It focuses primarily upon the heroic character of Achilles and the generic program of the Achilleid as a whole. The first chapter focuses upon Achilles’ childhood and early youth as a foster child and student of the centaur Chiron. It demonstrates that the hero’s upbringing is used to emphasise his ambiguous nature in line with the Homeric Iliad, as a hero who is capable of acting appropriately, but chooses not to. Achilles’ wild and bestial nature is emphasised by its difference to the half-human character of Chiron, who might be expected to be act like an animal, but instead becomes an example of civilisation overcoming innate savagery, an example of what Achilles could have been. The second chapter discusses the ambiguities inherent in a study of transgression, in the light of Achilles’ transvestite episode on Scyros. Numerous intertextual allusions construct various sets of expected behaviours for the transvestite youth, but his failure to live up to any of them portrays him as a truly transgressive hero. In this way, he is similar to Hercules or Bacchus, whose heroism is constructed partly upon their transgressive natures and inability to conform to societal custom. In the final chapter, the study of transgression is extended to Statius’ generic program, associating the epic with elegy. Statius employs many elegiac tropes, and makes numerous allusions to the poetry of elegists such as Ovid and Propertius. In particular, elegiac poetry’s peculiar trope of constructing and emphasising boundaries in order that they may be crossed (thus making the poetry feel more transgressive) is mirrored in the Achilleid. In this way, the Achilleid’s engagement with transgression is considered to be, in part, a method for presenting an innately problematic hero to Statius’ Flavian audience in an accessible and interesting manner.

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Taking the Woman's Part: Engendering Roman Love Elegy

Cited by 96 publications

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Mollis – ἁπαλός : La démarche féminine des vers poétiques dans l’élégie romaine et ses modèles hellénistiques

Appropriate Transgression: An Intertextual Approach to Problems of Genre and Heroism in Statius' Achilleid

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