{"title":"Ovid, Rhetoric, and Freedom of Speech in the Augustan Age","authors":"J. Hunt","doi":"10.1353/are.2020.0012","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/are.2020.0012","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44750,"journal":{"name":"ARETHUSA","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2021-06-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1353/are.2020.0012","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41424519","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}
Abstract:This paper explores the extent of free expression in the Augustan age as part of a larger response to papers recently presented at an academic conference entitled “Ovid, Rhetoric, and Freedom of Speech in the Late Augustan Age,” presented at Baylor University. Though emperors after Augustus tended to be more restrictive of free expression, Augustus allowed his critics considerable latitude, intervening in only the most egregious cases of slander. This reality conflicts with some scholarly perceptions of free expression derived from poetic texts, especially in the case of Ovid, which points up the need for a broad base of evidence for such considerations. Thus, when Ovid, for instance, refuses to discuss the error that provoked his banishment, it is not for a lack of opportunity, but rather as a rhetorical strategy to implicate as many adversaries as possible.
{"title":"Freedom of Speech in the Reign of Augustus: How Much of an Issue?","authors":"K. Galinsky","doi":"10.1353/are.2020.0010","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/are.2020.0010","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This paper explores the extent of free expression in the Augustan age as part of a larger response to papers recently presented at an academic conference entitled “Ovid, Rhetoric, and Freedom of Speech in the Late Augustan Age,” presented at Baylor University. Though emperors after Augustus tended to be more restrictive of free expression, Augustus allowed his critics considerable latitude, intervening in only the most egregious cases of slander. This reality conflicts with some scholarly perceptions of free expression derived from poetic texts, especially in the case of Ovid, which points up the need for a broad base of evidence for such considerations. Thus, when Ovid, for instance, refuses to discuss the error that provoked his banishment, it is not for a lack of opportunity, but rather as a rhetorical strategy to implicate as many adversaries as possible.","PeriodicalId":44750,"journal":{"name":"ARETHUSA","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2021-06-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1353/are.2020.0010","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"66323150","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}
Abstract:Donna Zuckerberg’s recent book exposes the dark subculture of modern pickup artists (PUAs), who brag about making Ovid their master and mining his Ars Amatoria for seduction strategies. The present article shows three ways in which PUAs exemplify the very kinds of misreading Ovid warns about: not really reading at all, projecting one’s own obsessions onto the text, and failing to recognize a bogus teacher. It suggests that a crucial defense against such “textual abuse”—and an important tool for life in the modern world—is a lively awareness of irony, the realm in which Ovid indeed reigns supreme.
{"title":"Lessons from the Doctor of Irony: A Reflection on Donna Zuckerberg’s Not All Dead White Men","authors":"J. Hejduk","doi":"10.1353/are.2020.0009","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/are.2020.0009","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Donna Zuckerberg’s recent book exposes the dark subculture of modern pickup artists (PUAs), who brag about making Ovid their master and mining his Ars Amatoria for seduction strategies. The present article shows three ways in which PUAs exemplify the very kinds of misreading Ovid warns about: not really reading at all, projecting one’s own obsessions onto the text, and failing to recognize a bogus teacher. It suggests that a crucial defense against such “textual abuse”—and an important tool for life in the modern world—is a lively awareness of irony, the realm in which Ovid indeed reigns supreme.","PeriodicalId":44750,"journal":{"name":"ARETHUSA","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2021-06-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1353/are.2020.0009","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41469881","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}
Abstract:In ex Ponto 1.2, Ovid addresses Paullus Maximus, a confidant of Augustus, by employing, within a web of allusions, many rhetorical devices, chief among which is a sustained paronomasia on Maximus’s very name. This paper enlarges on these devices by citing specific examples of each and analyzing various references to Virgil and Catullus that contextualize the poetic persona’s request to be brought nearer to his homeland, whether in life or, as we find out at the poem’s end, even in death.
{"title":"Propior Patriae: Allusion, Rhetoric, and Persuasion in ex Ponto 1.2","authors":"Alden Smith","doi":"10.1353/are.2020.0016","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/are.2020.0016","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:In ex Ponto 1.2, Ovid addresses Paullus Maximus, a confidant of Augustus, by employing, within a web of allusions, many rhetorical devices, chief among which is a sustained paronomasia on Maximus’s very name. This paper enlarges on these devices by citing specific examples of each and analyzing various references to Virgil and Catullus that contextualize the poetic persona’s request to be brought nearer to his homeland, whether in life or, as we find out at the poem’s end, even in death.","PeriodicalId":44750,"journal":{"name":"ARETHUSA","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2021-06-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1353/are.2020.0016","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47277499","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":"Butcher Blocks, Vegetable Stands, and Home-Cooked Food: Resisting Gender and Class Constructions in The Roman World","authors":"M. Green","doi":"10.1353/are.2020.0007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/are.2020.0007","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44750,"journal":{"name":"ARETHUSA","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2021-05-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1353/are.2020.0007","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47888356","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}
In Objects of the Dead, sociologist Margaret Gibson investigates how modern Australians utilize material culture in dealing with the death of loved ones. “Death reconstructs our experience of personal and household objects in particular ways,” she notes. It also confronts us with “the strangeness of realizing that things have outlived persons.” Hence “the materiality of things is shown to be more permanent than the materiality of the body” (Gibson 2008.1). Inspired by these insights, I wish to bring into focus some objects featured in the narrative of the death of Deianeira, the wife of Heracles, in Sophocles’ Trachiniai, a tragedy produced in Athens in 450–40 bce. These objects are mundane domestic instruments (organa); nevertheless, they provoke the tears of Deianeira when she grabs them just before committing suicide. What are these organa, defined as familiar tools that she frequently used, and how should her emotional last encounter with them be understood? Although these material objects have not drawn a lot of
{"title":"Unveiling Female Feelings for Objects: Deianeira and Her ὌPΓΑΝΑ in Sophocles' Trachiniai","authors":"Anne-Sophie Noel","doi":"10.1353/are.2020.0006","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/are.2020.0006","url":null,"abstract":"In Objects of the Dead, sociologist Margaret Gibson investigates how modern Australians utilize material culture in dealing with the death of loved ones. “Death reconstructs our experience of personal and household objects in particular ways,” she notes. It also confronts us with “the strangeness of realizing that things have outlived persons.” Hence “the materiality of things is shown to be more permanent than the materiality of the body” (Gibson 2008.1). Inspired by these insights, I wish to bring into focus some objects featured in the narrative of the death of Deianeira, the wife of Heracles, in Sophocles’ Trachiniai, a tragedy produced in Athens in 450–40 bce. These objects are mundane domestic instruments (organa); nevertheless, they provoke the tears of Deianeira when she grabs them just before committing suicide. What are these organa, defined as familiar tools that she frequently used, and how should her emotional last encounter with them be understood? Although these material objects have not drawn a lot of","PeriodicalId":44750,"journal":{"name":"ARETHUSA","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2021-05-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1353/are.2020.0006","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45855418","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}
Sophocles’ Tereus represents a pivotal moment in the development of the myth of Procne and Philomela (Gantz 1993.240). Almost all later versions of the story can be traced back to the lost tragedy, in which a woven fabric, possibly a peplos (robe), was prominently featured as the catalyst for the development of the plot. According to a secondto third-century ce hypothesis of Sophocles’ Tereus preserved in P.Oxy. 3013 (Parsons 1974.50), Procne, elder daughter of Pandion, king of Athens, was given in marriage to Tereus, king of Thrace, with whom she had a son, Itys.
{"title":"Procne, Philomela, And The Voice Of The Peplos","authors":"S. Dova","doi":"10.1353/are.2020.0005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/are.2020.0005","url":null,"abstract":"Sophocles’ Tereus represents a pivotal moment in the development of the myth of Procne and Philomela (Gantz 1993.240). Almost all later versions of the story can be traced back to the lost tragedy, in which a woven fabric, possibly a peplos (robe), was prominently featured as the catalyst for the development of the plot. According to a secondto third-century ce hypothesis of Sophocles’ Tereus preserved in P.Oxy. 3013 (Parsons 1974.50), Procne, elder daughter of Pandion, king of Athens, was given in marriage to Tereus, king of Thrace, with whom she had a son, Itys.","PeriodicalId":44750,"journal":{"name":"ARETHUSA","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2021-05-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1353/are.2020.0005","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49012078","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":"Material Girls: Gender and Material Culture in Ancient Greece and Rome","authors":"Mireille M. Lee, L. Petersen","doi":"10.1353/are.2020.0003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/are.2020.0003","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44750,"journal":{"name":"ARETHUSA","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2021-05-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1353/are.2020.0003","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42336379","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}
Abstract:This paper focuses on the persistent use of a particular term, “Voodoo Doll,” to classify certain artifacts and argues that it is both fundamentally misleading in its history of applications and especially egregious in the current debate over the openness of classics to people of color. Voodoo Doll not only exploits caricatures of Afro-Caribbean religion, it maintains a fundamental error in the interpretation of ancient ritual figurines: that is, the assumption of a primitive “law of sympathy.” This paper reviews current scholarship on ancient ritual figurines and then discusses the category Voodoo Doll and its modern origins, with an argument for its abandonment.
{"title":"“Voodoo Doll”: Implications and Offense of a Taxonomic Category","authors":"D. Frankfurter","doi":"10.1353/are.2020.0001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/are.2020.0001","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This paper focuses on the persistent use of a particular term, “Voodoo Doll,” to classify certain artifacts and argues that it is both fundamentally misleading in its history of applications and especially egregious in the current debate over the openness of classics to people of color. Voodoo Doll not only exploits caricatures of Afro-Caribbean religion, it maintains a fundamental error in the interpretation of ancient ritual figurines: that is, the assumption of a primitive “law of sympathy.” This paper reviews current scholarship on ancient ritual figurines and then discusses the category Voodoo Doll and its modern origins, with an argument for its abandonment.","PeriodicalId":44750,"journal":{"name":"ARETHUSA","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2020-08-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1353/are.2020.0001","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43872272","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}
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