{"title":"The \"Strangeness\" of Hypermestra's Letter to Lynceus (Ov. Her. 14)","authors":"Chiara Battistella","doi":"10.5406/23285265.46.1.2.04","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5406/23285265.46.1.2.04","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Ovid's Heroid 14 stands out as being quite different from the other single letters of the collection. Its main oddity lies in the fact that the motif of love appears to be absent and, by contrast, Hypermestra's pietas \"overrepresented,\" a circumstance that has inevitably attracted scholarly attention and solicited interpretive activity. In this paper, I intend to contribute to the debate by adding a further strand of interpretation, one that seeks to set the epistle against the backdrop of some recent historical events, namely Livia Drusilla's marriage to Octavian. I, therefore, suggest that the strangeness of Her. 14 may reside in its being suspended between the fictional world of elegy and the historical frame here delineated.","PeriodicalId":81501,"journal":{"name":"Illinois classical studies","volume":"46 1","pages":"59 - 78"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49082954","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Art of Death in Ovid's Heroides","authors":"Stella Alekou","doi":"10.5406/23285265.46.1.2.03","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5406/23285265.46.1.2.03","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Notwithstanding the focalization in Ovid's Heroides on love, one may also identify a consistent emphasis on death, as the letters grow to become a literary refuge for women who experience loss as well as physical and social isolation. Death plays a decisive role in the portrayal of the female writers as sympathetic victims. The fictionalization of death acts as a means of persuasion also for the poet, who situates his text against the background of Augustan politics. Writing about the art of death enables Ovid to implicitly defend the artists who had been defeated and violently silenced by power and renders his work an indispensable rhetorical tool for their literary survival.","PeriodicalId":81501,"journal":{"name":"Illinois classical studies","volume":"46 1","pages":"31 - 58"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44595142","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Roosters, Cockfighting, and Performing Masculinity in Aristophanes's Plays","authors":"Gaia Gianni","doi":"10.5406/23285265.46.1.2.10","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5406/23285265.46.1.2.10","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This paper explores the presence and significance of the rooster in Aristophanes's plays. In particular, the paper argues that the rooster embodied an example of masculinity that was presented on stage to reaffirm an idea of maleness already broadly accepted by society. Drawing from Aristophanes's plays and other ancient Greek texts, the paper suggests that victorious roosters display hegemonic masculine characteristics, asserting dominance over female and other male individuals. As such, the rooster displayed on stage becomes a public symbol of hegemonic masculinity and helps reinforce the expected male performance.","PeriodicalId":81501,"journal":{"name":"Illinois classical studies","volume":"46 1","pages":"177 - 198"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45783680","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"From Socrates to Briseis: Homeric Problems and Epistolary Fiction in Heroides 3","authors":"Jean-Christophe Jolivet","doi":"10.5406/23285265.46.1.2.07","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5406/23285265.46.1.2.07","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This paper aims to investigate the epistolary fiction in Heroides 3 in the light of ancient Homeric scholarship. The study of the Iliadic intertext should allow us to propose a hypothesis to identify the character who inspired Briseis's letter. By focusing on both Ulysses's strange attitude in Iliad 9 and Briseis's strange ignorance in Heroides 3, it tends to propose a new interpretation of the epistolary mode.","PeriodicalId":81501,"journal":{"name":"Illinois classical studies","volume":"46 1","pages":"119 - 137"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46183571","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Hero Meets Penelope, Leander Meets Odysseus: The Intratextual Dialogue between Ov. Her. 1 and Her. 18–19","authors":"A. Michalopoulos","doi":"10.5406/23285265.46.1.2.06","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5406/23285265.46.1.2.06","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:In this paper, I investigate the relationship between Penelope's letter to Odysseus (Her. 1) and the letters of Leander and Hero (Her. 18–19), especially Hero's letter to Leander (Her. 19). The peculiarity of this comparative approach lies mainly in the fact that whereas Penelope and Odysseus were one of the most famous couples in ancient literature and the protagonists of a great epic, the Odyssey, Leander and Hero were considerably less known in Rome during Ovid's time. To prove the close relationship between the letters of Penelope, Leander, and Hero, I present their numerous similarities, and then I suggest the reasons why Ovid took pains to compose the letters of Leander and Hero in a way so closely reminiscent of Penelope's letter to Odysseus.","PeriodicalId":81501,"journal":{"name":"Illinois classical studies","volume":"46 1","pages":"103 - 117"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48640282","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"House-Razing and the Relationship of Oikos and Polis in Euripides's Heracles","authors":"Jocelyn Moore","doi":"10.5406/illiclasstud.45.1.0025","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5406/illiclasstud.45.1.0025","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This article shows that the demise of Heracles's household in Euripides's Heracles draws upon recognizable public values related to the individual household, oikos, at Classical Athens and reflects upon its vulnerabilities. Euripides defines Heracles's identity in Thebes through his oikos. Threats directed against Heracles's household implicate a polis which paradigmatically fails to protect one of its oikoi. Throughout the drama methods of depicting the exposure of the oikos to potential harm evoke its frequent appearance in Athenian public performances including speeches, oaths, and spectacles. Particularly important in Heracles is the destruction of the physical house which embodies the vulnerability of the whole household: recurring language of the contemporary punishment of house-razing, kataskaphē, reflects the fraught relationship of Thebes to Heracles and his household.","PeriodicalId":81501,"journal":{"name":"Illinois classical studies","volume":"45 1","pages":"25 - 48"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-10-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47530008","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Composing the puella: Pliny the Younger's Elegiac Experimentation","authors":"M. Smith","doi":"10.5406/illiclasstud.45.1.0132","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5406/illiclasstud.45.1.0132","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This paper explores the character of Calpurnia in Pliny the Younger's Epistles and argues that her representation is a carefully crafted literary persona modeled on the elegiac puella docta. Pliny creates her persona intentionally, developing it over the course of six letters. Moreover, Pliny also employs elegiac themes and language in the immediate contexts of the Calpurnia letters, which reveals that an elegiac Calpurnia is less a reflection of reality and more a result of Pliny's poetic capabilities and sensibilities.","PeriodicalId":81501,"journal":{"name":"Illinois classical studies","volume":"45 1","pages":"132 - 157"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-10-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49230619","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Plutarch and the \"Malicious\" Historian","authors":"Chrysanthos S. Chrysanthou","doi":"10.5406/illiclasstud.45.1.0049","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5406/illiclasstud.45.1.0049","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This article shows that Plutarch's principles of historical criticism in On the Malice of Herodotus do not always obtain in the Lives, and that Plutarch's narrative techniques in his biographies prove to be vulnerable to the criticisms that Plutarch makes of Herodotus in the essay. Yet rather than being a sign of malice and deviousness, as Plutarch argues for Herodotus in On the Malice, it is suggested that these techniques are used in the Lives in a sophisticated way to invite an active response from the readers toward the biographical narrative and engage them all the more profoundly in their individual process of moral reflection and evaluation of history. This insight, in turn, shows that there is more artistry in the composition and purpose of On the Malice than has been hitherto discerned or allowed. Overall, this article advances our understanding of Plutarch's oeuvre as an integrated corpus in which Plutarch encourages through his use of inconsistencies a provocative readerly experience. It also has some far-reaching consequences for our interpretation of the literary persona that Plutarch evokes in the Lives and On the Malice and his conception of the ideal way of writing and reading history.","PeriodicalId":81501,"journal":{"name":"Illinois classical studies","volume":"45 1","pages":"49 - 79"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-10-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"70738729","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Regal Resonances: Ovid, the princeps, and the Remote Past in Fasti 2, 4, and 6","authors":"Fanny Dolansky","doi":"10.5406/illiclasstud.45.1.0080","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5406/illiclasstud.45.1.0080","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Through a network of verbal echoes and allusions, Ovid invites readers to forge connections between three events disparate in time and in their placement in the Fasti: the rape and suicide of Lucretia (2.685–852); the death of Remus (4.807–62); and the murder of Servius Tullius (6.585–636). The many lexical and thematic correspondences between these regal narratives have largely gone unnoticed yet combine to offer powerful statements about the relationship of Rome's past to its present and future. The narratives expose concerns about the reemergence of monarchic power and tensions within the domus Augusta brought about by deaths, scandals, and dynastic struggles. Together the three narratives can be read as a meditation on contemporary political affairs in late Augustan and early Tiberian Rome.","PeriodicalId":81501,"journal":{"name":"Illinois classical studies","volume":"45 1","pages":"108 - 80"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-10-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42874855","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A Labor of Love: Statius Silvae 3.1 (Hercules Surrentinus Polli Felicis)","authors":"M. Putnam","doi":"10.5406/illiclasstud.45.1.0158","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5406/illiclasstud.45.1.0158","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:My essay is a close reading of the initial poem of the third book of Statius's Silvae. Its primary topic is the dedication by Pollius Felix of his new temple to Hercules. As the narrative unfolds, we trace how the shrine came into being and the accompanying metamorphoses of the landscape and of the character of the god himself. Pollius and his wife, Polla, play major roles in the proceedings. Statius's own virtuosity is on constant display not only in his skill as a wordsmith but in his suggestive bows to a series of genres and in his rich allusiveness, especially to Virgil.","PeriodicalId":81501,"journal":{"name":"Illinois classical studies","volume":"45 1","pages":"158 - 223"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-10-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48725152","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}