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{"title":"Notes on Contributors","authors":"","doi":"10.1353/hel.2022.a904792","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/hel.2022.a904792","url":null,"abstract":"<span><span>In lieu of</span> an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:</span>\u0000<p> <ul> <li><!-- html_title --> Notes on Contributors <!-- /html_title --></li> </ul> <p>C<small>ecilia</small> C<small>ozzi</small> is a sixth year PhD candidate in Philology at the University of Cincinnati. She received both her BA and her MA from the University of Trento (Italy), in 2014 and 2016 respectively. She has been a visiting researcher at the University of Cambridge and at Carleton University (Ottawa, Canada), where she completed her master thesis on Hecate, Aphrodite and Circe as characters emulating Medea’s journey in Apollonius Rhodius’s <em>Argonautica</em>. She had also taught as a contract instructor at Carleton University in 2017 before joining the doctoral program at UC. Her research interests range from Greek verse (both epic and tragedy) to Latin verse (especially Ovid and the reception of Hellenistic poetry) and rely on the use of different methodologies, including psychoanalysis. Her PhD thesis employs psychoanalytical categories to investigate how fathers and sons negotiate inheritance in its broad implications (both tangible and spiritual) on the tragic stage.</p> <p>C<small>arolyn</small> M<small>acdonald</small> is Associate Professor of Classics and Ancient History at the University of New Brunswick (Fredericton). Her research investigates the intersections of visual art, literature, the urban landscape, and cultural self-fashioning in the Classical world. She co-edited <em>Rome, Empire of Plunder</em> (2017) and is currently writing a book on literary and visual responses to the Roman appropriation of Greek art.</p> <p>M<small>aria</small> B<small>eatrice</small> B<small>ittarello</small> holds a degree in Classics and History of Religions from Università “La Sapienza” of Rome (Italy) and a Doctorate from the University of Stirling (Scotland, UK), focusing on the recrafting of three ancient goddesses in contemporary Paganism. She has adopted an interdisciplinary approach, working at the intersections of several academic disciplines and drawing on methodologies such as structuralism and critical theory. Her research has focused on issues such as mythical blacksmiths, ethnic stereotyping in the ancient world, contemporary Paganism, the analysis of established categories in the study of religion, as, in particular, myth, ritual and polytheism, and the history of virtual worlds.</p> Copyright © 2022 Texas Tech University Press ... </p>","PeriodicalId":43032,"journal":{"name":"HELIOS","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-08-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138516815","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Echoes of Ovid? Memories of the Metamorphoses in Philostratus’s Imagines","authors":"Carolyn Macdonald","doi":"10.1353/hel.2022.a904790","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/hel.2022.a904790","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This paper explores the cultural-ideological dimensions of Philostratus’s Imagines, a series of prose descriptions of paintings purportedly on display in a third-century CE Neapolitan villa. Taking a reader-response perspective, I argue that reminiscences of Ovid’s Metamorphoses complicate the avowed Hellenism of the text and its audience, transforming the Imagines into a series of reflecting pools that mirror back to readers their own images of Second Sophistic paideia. After analyzing the significance of the text’s setting in Roman Naples, I examine two types of Ovidian echoes in the Imagines: first, instances of physical metamorphosis in the fictive paintings described by the Philostratean ekphrast (Section 1); and second, constellations of ekphrases that evoke comparable thematic and narrative clusters in the Metamorphoses (Section 2). The paper concludes by reflecting on how Philostratus thematizes subjective projection as a key component of viewer-reader response (Section 3). This combines with the possible echoes of Ovid to entangle readers in the negotiation of Greek and Roman culture signaled by the text’s Neapolitan setting.","PeriodicalId":43032,"journal":{"name":"HELIOS","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47335047","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Being Achilles’ Heir: A Psychoanalytical Reading of Neoptolemus in Sophocles’ Philoctetes","authors":"Cecilia Cozzi","doi":"10.1353/hel.2022.a904789","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/hel.2022.a904789","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This article offers a psychoanalytical reading of Neoptolemus’s evolution on stage in Sophocles’ Philoctetes. The analysis stems from Italian psychoanalyst Massimo Recalcati’s definition of inheritance as a movement of reclamation, which entails the heir’s active choice in approaching his father’s example. In the end of the play, Neoptolemus emerges as a good heir, because he neither dismissed Achilles’ values entirely (as Odysseus demanded in the prologue), nor did he re-enact his father’s behavior uncritically, as Philoctetes was expecting. Neoptolemus deliberately chooses to reclaim his Achillean ethos, without overlooking the importance of other forces at work (friendship and piety).","PeriodicalId":43032,"journal":{"name":"HELIOS","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45527389","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The Chalybes as an Historical People","authors":"Maria Beatrice Bittarello","doi":"10.1353/hel.2022.a904791","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/hel.2022.a904791","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:The mythical iron-workers the Chalybes are described as an historical people by both Greek and Roman writers. This paper examines the ancient sources that describe them as a ‘barbarian’ people inhabiting the peripheral regions of the known world and highlights significant differences between the ‘historical’ Chalybes and the mythical Chalybes. By adopting an approach located at the intersection of several disciplines, such as ethnography, human geography, history of religions, and structuralist methodologies, the author discusses how the presence of the Chalybes in a narrative is a signal of ‘other’ space and how the description of their customs calls into play issues of the construction of individual and ethnic identity.","PeriodicalId":43032,"journal":{"name":"HELIOS","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49431227","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Notes on Contributors","authors":"","doi":"10.1353/hel.2022.0003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/hel.2022.0003","url":null,"abstract":"<span><span>In lieu of</span> an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:</span>\u0000<p> <ul> <li><!-- html_title --> Notes on Contributors <!-- /html_title --></li> </ul> <p>M<small>atthew</small> C<small>haldekas</small> is a postdoctoral researcher at Eberhard Karls Universität, Tübingen. He has published articles and reviews on topics in Hellenistic poetry, primarily on Theocritus. His research interests include Greek poetry, ancient gender and ethnicity, ancient aesthetics, and cinematic reception. He is a member of Collaborative Research Centre 1391 \"Different Aesthetics,\" and is currently developing a monograph on Hellenistic ecphrastic epigram.</p> <p>E<small>rik</small> F<small>redericksen</small> holds a Ph.D. in Classics from Princeton University. He is the author of articles on Latin poetry and its receptions and on the ancient novel. His research interests include gender and sexuality in ancient literature, reception studies, and the environmental humanities.</p> <p>R<small>ichard</small> H<small>utchins</small> is a Visiting Lecturer in Classics at Amherst College. His research focuses on ecological thought in Greek and Roman science and literature. He has published articles on nature and nonhuman animals in Epicureanism, Stoicism, Presocratic philosophy, and ancient science. His book project, <em>Lucretius against Human Exceptionalism</em>, explores the natural world's resistance to empire in Lucretius's <em>De rerum natura</em>. He is also working on a book that uses ecocritical approaches to the animal and pastoral epigrams of Anyte of Tegea.</p> Copyright © 2022 Texas Tech University Press ... </p>","PeriodicalId":43032,"journal":{"name":"HELIOS","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-08-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138516809","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Language and Agency in Sappho’s Brothers Poem","authors":"Alexandra Leewon Schultz","doi":"10.1353/hel.2021.0007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/hel.2021.0007","url":null,"abstract":"The papyrus fragment containing the text of the Brothers Poem (P.Sapph.Obbink) has no established provenance, since Dirk Obbink’s accounts of provenance have been exposed as fabrications. There is further reason to believe the fragment was looted and sold illegally on the antiquities black market: P.Sapph.Obbink comes from the same book roll as the illegally-acquired Hobby Lobby/Green Collection fragments that were returned to Egypt in January 2021. The present whereabouts of P.Sapph.Obbink are unknown. This article engages with the text of the poem and its scholarly reception, but it is equally important that we continue to investigate the object’s history. I draw the reader’s attention to the important work by Roberta Mazza and others.1","PeriodicalId":43032,"journal":{"name":"HELIOS","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-03-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47581734","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Reframing Iphis and Caeneus: Trans Narratives and Socio-Linguistic Gendering in Ovid’s Metamorphoses","authors":"J. Watson","doi":"10.1353/hel.2021.0008","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/hel.2021.0008","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This article argues for a reinterpretation of two Ovidian characters. Iphis (in Book 9 of the Metamorphoses) and Caeneus (in Book 12) have historically been described by a range of sexualities and gender terms, such as lesbian, transvestite, and trans-sexual, each of which comes with its own problems. Here, I reframe these characters as trans men. In this article I build on two strands of classical scholarship to develop a socio-linguistic framework in which Iphis and Caeneus may be seen as male. First, using previous work on Latin grammatical gender, I examine Iphis and the way that Ovid utilizes grammatical gender and semantic situation to cast him as somewhat male throughout the narrative. Second, I explore how the socially constructed model of Roman masculinity, in which to be masculine is to be a sexual penetrator, confers masculinity on Caeneus, even though Ovid does not provide an explicit scene in which he sexually penetrates someone else. By combining these two strands, I argue that Ovid’s Iphis and Caeneus are presented linguistically and socially as male, although in different ways to each other. Such an approach has value in twenty-first-century academia by examining how Iphis and Caeneus have been used as touchstones for modern female homosexuality and how, in the future, they may also fulfil the same function for modern trans people.","PeriodicalId":43032,"journal":{"name":"HELIOS","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-03-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41687574","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Entanglements of the Human and Nonhuman in Euripides’ Helen","authors":"Maria Combatti","doi":"10.1353/hel.2021.0006","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/hel.2021.0006","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This article explores depictions and perceptions of Helen’s relations with the non-human world. Drawing on the insights of posthumanism, new materialisms, and affect theory for interpretative assistance, it argues that Helen, animals, natural entities, and material things are interconnected in bundles of intra-actions and trans-corporeal entanglements, which make Helen’s embodied, emotional experience vividly perceptible to the audience. Three things are exemplary in this regard: the “lovely virgin streams” (ϰαλλιπάϱθενοι ϱ̔οαί, 1) of the Nile, whose features merge with Helen’s physical and moral qualities; the “egg” (τεῦχος νεοσσῶν λευϰὸν, 256), which materializes her feeling of being a “monstrosity” (τέϱας, 255); and the “statue” (ἄγαλμα, 262), which Helen compares to herself to bewail her beauty. Thus, by reacting to the Leitmotiv of the eidōlon (“phantom”) and highlighting the protean atmosphere of the Egyptian setting, this article aims to show that reading the Helen with a focus on the entanglements of the human and nonhuman allows us to shed new light on the theme of doubling, indeterminacy, and multiplicity which underlies the play.","PeriodicalId":43032,"journal":{"name":"HELIOS","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-03-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47117352","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Scriptus Propertius: Propertius between Body and Text","authors":"Erik Fredericksen","doi":"10.1353/hel.2022.0002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/hel.2022.0002","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This article traces how Propertius imagines being read, and argues that problems surrounding the representation of his male body underlie conflicting anxieties of authorship. It begins by suggesting that a number of funereal scenes allow Propertius to figure his own absence in future readers' interactions with his poetry and express his lack of control over the reception of his text. At the same time, though, this epitaphic model of reading protects his body from his readers' aggressive gaze. In fact, Propertius continually deflects visual focus from his body throughout his poetry, and is wary of inscribing his body into his text and becoming a textual-bodily object like Cynthia. Finally, the article examines occasions when Propertius is marked with a nota. These scenes allow Propertius to envision the threat of textual objectification he elsewhere avoids, and express anxieties about what it means to be read. Drawing on the ways in which Propertius's elegies display and conceal his body, the article claims that this poetry, so concerned with literary immortality and poetic fame, also evidences a deep—and gendered—ambivalence toward becoming an object to be read.","PeriodicalId":43032,"journal":{"name":"HELIOS","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48469999","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Animals as Individuals in Anyte of Tegea","authors":"R. Hutchins","doi":"10.1353/hel.2022.0001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/hel.2022.0001","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This article explores a tension in the animal epigrams of Anyte of Tegea, the inventor of the animal and pastoral epigram. It argues that, on the one hand, the genre of funerary epigram encourages Anyte to think about animals as individuals, with their own particular personalities, biographies, and interests, as well about the particularity of their relationships with the human companions who speak the epigrams. On the other hand, Anyte's repeated use of the conventions of funerary rhetoric and Homeric and Hesiodic intertextuality, while commemorating the lives of the animal individuals depicted in her epigrams, also abstract from the individuality and animality of the animals that Anyte commemorates. The question of depicting animals as individuals—rather than as tokens of species or as merely functions or commodities in human society—is an increasingly important issue in Animals Studies. This article begins by surveying recent philosophical and ethical positions presented by theorists in Animals Studies and ultimately locates the origin of the question of representing animals as individuals in Derrida's late work The Animal That Therefore I Am. It then proceeds to use this question to pose new, close readings of a selection of Anyte's animal epigrams, asking how she represents animals as individuals, and concludes by claiming that the animal individuals of Anyte's poetry are truly liminal beings: neither pets, nor labor or wild animals, nor thoroughly anthropomorphized persons. It is this complexity in the status of the animals in Anyte's epigrams that makes the poems (and the animals) so compelling and such good examples of the tensions not only in her own poetry but also in discussions about the representation of animals in literature today.","PeriodicalId":43032,"journal":{"name":"HELIOS","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44653292","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}