ARETHUSAPub Date : 2017-09-28DOI: 10.1353/ARE.2017.0012
Ashli J. E. Baker
{"title":"Appearances Can Be Deceiving: Costume and Identity in Apuleius's Metamorphoses, Florida, and Apology","authors":"Ashli J. E. Baker","doi":"10.1353/ARE.2017.0012","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/ARE.2017.0012","url":null,"abstract":"In Book 11 of Apuleius’s Metamorphoses, a stark naked Lucius, having eaten the prescribed roses from the hands of a priest of Isis, gradually appears where before there had only been his asinine form.1 Almost immediately, a member of the Isiac procession steps forward, clothing the naked man in the linen tunic off of his own back: the first physical mark of the last major metamorphosis of the novel, that of man to priest (11.14). This Apuleian moment can be compared to the same scene of transformation in the Onos, in all likelihood an epitome of Apuleius’s Greek source text, in which Loukios, after eating roses in the middle of the amphitheater, returns to his human form.2 Unlike Lucius in the Metamorphoses, in the Onos, Loukios remains naked as he begs the provincial governor for his life and his “re-clothing” goes unmentioned.3","PeriodicalId":44750,"journal":{"name":"ARETHUSA","volume":"50 1","pages":"335 - 367"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2017-09-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1353/ARE.2017.0012","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45889511","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}
ARETHUSAPub Date : 2017-05-16DOI: 10.1353/ARE.2017.0009
T. Schmitz
{"title":"The Rhetoric of Desire in Philostratus’s Letters","authors":"T. Schmitz","doi":"10.1353/ARE.2017.0009","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/ARE.2017.0009","url":null,"abstract":"Since Patricia Rosenmeyer’s groundbreaking 2001 study of Greek epistolography, the collections of pseudonymous and fictional letters written during the first centuries c.e. have begun to attract some scholarly interest.2 Philostratus’s Letters have not benefited from this renewed attention; they still remain relatively neglected. In the following pages, I want to suggest a new reading of these short vignettes. I will propose that they should be understood as sophisticated texts that reflect and mirror their own status as love letters on several levels. In particular, I want to argue that Roland Barthes’ A Lover’s Discourse (first published in 1977) shares a number of traits with Philostratus’s texts and that we arrive at a better understanding of the ways in which Philostratus’s Letters establish their own special discourse of desire when we read these two works side by side. Looking at Barthes’ book alongside Philostratus’s Letters, readers will immediately be struck by a number of obvious similarities. However, as trained classicists, we have learned to mistrust analogies which may be purely serendipitous. When modern poets such as Ezra Pound or H.D. recreate the aesthetics of Greek lyric fragments, they react to a state of","PeriodicalId":44750,"journal":{"name":"ARETHUSA","volume":"50 1","pages":"257 - 282"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2017-05-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1353/ARE.2017.0009","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43226020","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}
ARETHUSAPub Date : 2017-05-16DOI: 10.1353/ARE.2017.0005
Mireille M. Lee
{"title":"The Gendered Economics of Greek Bronze Mirrors: Reflections on Reciprocity and Feminine Agency","authors":"Mireille M. Lee","doi":"10.1353/ARE.2017.0005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/ARE.2017.0005","url":null,"abstract":"The hand-held mirror is unique in Greek material culture in terms of both gender and economics.1 Bronze mirrors were produced by male metal-smiths in specialized workshops outside the household; the valuable bronze was otherwise associated with the masculine activities of war (in the form of weapons and armor), and government, as minted coins. Yet mirrors are gendered feminine in Greek society: in Greek iconography and literature, they are exclusively associated with women. Actual examples have been recovered archaeologically from women’s graves and from sanctuaries, especially those dedicated to female divinities. The iconography of the mirrors themselves is likewise overwhelmingly feminine, depicting both idealized female figures and mythological imagery. Because bronze mirrors moved between the spheres of masculine and feminine, public and private, they functioned as especially charged objects in the negotiation of gender and status in Greek society. Since mirrors were produced outside the household, women must have","PeriodicalId":44750,"journal":{"name":"ARETHUSA","volume":"50 1","pages":"143 - 168"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2017-05-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1353/ARE.2017.0005","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48649065","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}
ARETHUSAPub Date : 2017-01-18DOI: 10.1353/ARE.2017.0003
L. Willms
{"title":"Power Play: Time, Theatricality, and Consent in Augustus’s Res Gestae 34","authors":"L. Willms","doi":"10.1353/ARE.2017.0003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/ARE.2017.0003","url":null,"abstract":"Two thousand years after his death, Augustus is still very much alive.1 This bimillennial anniversary has been the occasion for numerous events and academic congresses.2 And even earlier, Augustus enjoyed renown among monarchs and emperors as their ideal founding father. This paper will explore the deeper mechanisms with which Augustus forged such a long-lasting positive image. This image is chiefly the result of the type of government he instituted and the political persona3 that he created and disseminated. At the core of the discussion will be Augustus’s Res Gestae (hereafter RG), with a particular focus on the programmatic last two chapters and, especially, chapter 34. By looking back at the emperor’s life and deeds, the text enshrines his strategies of posthumous “self-propaganda.”","PeriodicalId":44750,"journal":{"name":"ARETHUSA","volume":"50 1","pages":"116 - 89"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2017-01-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1353/ARE.2017.0003","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42901127","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}
ARETHUSAPub Date : 2017-01-18DOI: 10.1353/ARE.2017.0002
Harriet Fertik
{"title":"Sex, Love, and Leadership in Cicero’s Philippics 1 and 2","authors":"Harriet Fertik","doi":"10.1353/ARE.2017.0002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/ARE.2017.0002","url":null,"abstract":"Cicero wrote the Philippics in 44 and 43 b.c.e. to attack Mark Antony, who had been Julius Caesar’s closest associate and remained one of the most powerful men in Rome after Caesar’s assassination. These speeches have been analyzed as masterpieces of political invective: Cicero’s evident goal is to weaken and counteract Antony’s influence in public life and to frame his contest with Antony as one between the republic established by the ancestors of the Roman people and the tyranny enacted by Caesar.2 The Philippics have received little attention, however, as works that illuminate a central issue in Roman political thought: how to contend with the figure of the powerful individual in the context of collective governance. Cicero’s diatribes against Antony demonstrate that, from the perspective of the ruling class at Rome, the powerful leader was often regarded as dangerous: someone who undermined the standing of his fellow elites and so threatened the right functioning of the community. The depiction of Antony in the Philippics, however, also points to a different vision of the powerful individual, according to which figures like Antony were persistent features","PeriodicalId":44750,"journal":{"name":"ARETHUSA","volume":"50 1","pages":"65 - 88"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2017-01-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1353/ARE.2017.0002","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43834741","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}
ARETHUSAPub Date : 2016-11-07DOI: 10.1353/ARE.2016.0025
J. Henderson
{"title":"Cicero’s Letters to Cicero, ad QFr: Big Brothers Keepers","authors":"J. Henderson","doi":"10.1353/ARE.2016.0025","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/ARE.2016.0025","url":null,"abstract":"Cicero dearest: The three-book collection of (Marcus) Cicero’s Letters to (Quintus) Cicero dramatizes the years of their writer’s tempora (“crisis”) between the fallout from his consulate, through his banishment, return, and shift of alignment from unease with Pompey to investment in Caesar (60–54 b.c.e.). Besides Marcus’s own spell out in the cold (58, return in 57), they are occasioned by three periods of Qfr’s absence from Italy: as praetorian proconsul of Asia (61–59, return in 58), and as legate, first to Pompey in Sardinia (56– 55), then to Caesar in Gaul (54–). Their mélange of epistolarity spans the whole range from formal broadside, through mimetic bulletin, to keeping channels open. Before any documentary status that these letters may present for historians of Rome, they buzz with transferential drama, as they challenge us to join in with the imagined interpretations sponsored,","PeriodicalId":44750,"journal":{"name":"ARETHUSA","volume":"49 1","pages":"439 - 461"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2016-11-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1353/ARE.2016.0025","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"66322680","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}
ARETHUSAPub Date : 2016-11-07DOI: 10.1353/ARE.2016.0030
R. Fletcher
{"title":"Philosophy in the Expanded Field: Ciceronian Dialogue in Pollio’s Letters from Spain (FAM. 10.31–33)","authors":"R. Fletcher","doi":"10.1353/ARE.2016.0030","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/ARE.2016.0030","url":null,"abstract":"While governor in Further Spain, Asinius Pollio wrote three letters to Cicero (Fam. 10. 31–33) in the late Spring/early Summer of 43. Although we know from extant letters to Atticus that Cicero received at least one earlier letter from Pollio (in May 45), and we may presume (but cannot be sure) that Cicero replied to all or some of the letters Pollio sent from in Spain in 43, none of Cicero’s side of the correspondence is included in our","PeriodicalId":44750,"journal":{"name":"ARETHUSA","volume":"49 1","pages":"549 - 573"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2016-11-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1353/ARE.2016.0030","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"66323037","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}
ARETHUSAPub Date : 2016-11-07DOI: 10.1353/ARE.2016.0023
F. Martelli
{"title":"Mourning Tulli-a: The Shrine of Letters in ad Atticum 12","authors":"F. Martelli","doi":"10.1353/ARE.2016.0023","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/ARE.2016.0023","url":null,"abstract":"Each substance of a grief hath twenty shadows, Which shows like grief itself, but is not so; For sorrow’s eye, glazed with blinding tears, Divides one thing entire to many objects; Like perspectives, which rightly gazed upon Show nothing but confusion, eyed awry Distinguish form: so your sweet majesty, Looking awry upon your lord’s departure, Find shapes of grief, more than himself, to wail; Which, look’d on as it is, is nought but shadows Of what it is not. Richard II, II.ii.14–24","PeriodicalId":44750,"journal":{"name":"ARETHUSA","volume":"49 1","pages":"415 - 437"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2016-11-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1353/ARE.2016.0023","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"66322573","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}
ARETHUSAPub Date : 2016-11-07DOI: 10.1353/ARE.2016.0026
Orazio Cappello
{"title":"Everything You Wanted to Know About Atticus (But Were Afraid to Ask Cicero): Looking for Atticus in Cicero’s ad Atticum","authors":"Orazio Cappello","doi":"10.1353/ARE.2016.0026","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/ARE.2016.0026","url":null,"abstract":"Cornelius Nepos’s Life of Atticus has long foreclosed the possibility of reading Cicero’s sixteen-volume collection of the Letters to Atticus as (auto) biography. In Atticus 16.2–4, preoccupied with Atticus’s humanitas (a broad concept in Latin, here best translated with Horsfall 1989a.24 as “humanity”), Nepos situates the collection alongside the treatises in which Cicero mentions Atticus and identifies the letters as an indicium of Cicero’s more than fraternal love for Atticus. Beyond confirming Atticus’s amiability and close relationship with different generations of Roman leaders (cf. Att. 16.1), the letters sent to Atticus represent a continuous (contextam) and prophetic (cecinit ut vates) political history of the late republic between Cicero’s consulship and execution, and beyond.1 According to Nepos, in fact, the","PeriodicalId":44750,"journal":{"name":"ARETHUSA","volume":"49 1","pages":"463 - 487"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2016-11-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1353/ARE.2016.0026","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"66322697","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}
ARETHUSAPub Date : 2016-11-07DOI: 10.1353/ARE.2016.0029
Erik Gunderson
{"title":"Cicero’s Studied Passions: The Letters of 46 B.C.E.","authors":"Erik Gunderson","doi":"10.1353/ARE.2016.0029","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/ARE.2016.0029","url":null,"abstract":"The politics of Latin literature has been a fruitful area of research for some time.2 The domains of politics and literature contain a number of important moments of convergence. One moment of intercommunication between them is provided by the Latin word studium. The term, at its most general, means something like “zealous application.” More typical than the general case are specific affective variants; one commonly ends up translating studium with a word that designates either political partisanship or scholarly activity. And yet, the same Latin word is there on the page in either case. On the one hand, one is never inclined to mistake an instance of the word studium for literary studia in a political passage, nor, conversely, is one inclined to translate studium as “partisanship” when it occurs in a discussion of the scholarly otium, “leisure,” of Roman gentlemen. Nevertheless, heterogeneous uses of words like studium can indeed be found as awkward yokemates in passages where one jumps between political","PeriodicalId":44750,"journal":{"name":"ARETHUSA","volume":"49 1","pages":"525 - 547"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2016-11-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1353/ARE.2016.0029","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"66323023","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}