{"title":"Emperors and Emperorship in Late Antiquity. Images and Narratives ed. by María Pilar García Ruiz, Alberto J. Quiroga Puertas (review)","authors":"Andrea Murace","doi":"10.1353/clw.2021.0026","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/clw.2021.0026","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46369,"journal":{"name":"CLASSICAL WORLD","volume":"115 1","pages":"95 - 96"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2021-11-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48958413","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}
This special issue is concerned with a multifaceted Ovidian topic: “The Dominant Female in Ovid’s Metamorphoses: Gendered Allusions, and Gendered Receptions.” The idea arose in a conversation that I had with Alden Smith at the Université Clermont Auvergne of Clermont-Ferrand in November 2017. Its first step took form in an International Conference organized by Prof. Smith in Texas at Baylor University in February 2019. That conference explored different aspects of rhetoric and freedom of speech in the Late Augustan Age, particularly in Ovid’s works. In the sympotic dialogues that occur naturally enough at such a conference, we spoke also about women’s freedoms in the late Augustan milieu, mostly as represented in Ovid’s literary production. Out of those rich discussions resulted a plan for further work on the topic, which now focused on the panel we had proposed for the FIEC conference, held in London in July 2019. Timing is everything: it is undeniable that 2017 and 2018 were two years in which a paradigm shift occurred vis-à-vis gender dynamics not just in the USA but in many parts of the world. Of course, in classical literature these issues are not new, since they gained strength in the field from the interesting approaches developed in feminist film studies in the 1970s.1 We thought, however, that (re)approaching the topic at this social and somewhat “global” juncture could be of interest; and it was in this particular conference, and now in this volume, we believe, that it is. Smith’s work on allusion and my own stylistic and poetic work on Latin literature allowed us to enlarge such a topic to a more comprehensive examination of one of the most innovative and still challenging aspects of Ovidian writing: that of female characters gaining physical, and psychological mastery over their male objects of desire, within a clear reversal of Roman accepted gendered patterns. From a perspective
{"title":"Introduction","authors":"Eleonora Tola","doi":"10.1353/clw.2021.0027","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/clw.2021.0027","url":null,"abstract":"This special issue is concerned with a multifaceted Ovidian topic: “The Dominant Female in Ovid’s Metamorphoses: Gendered Allusions, and Gendered Receptions.” The idea arose in a conversation that I had with Alden Smith at the Université Clermont Auvergne of Clermont-Ferrand in November 2017. Its first step took form in an International Conference organized by Prof. Smith in Texas at Baylor University in February 2019. That conference explored different aspects of rhetoric and freedom of speech in the Late Augustan Age, particularly in Ovid’s works. In the sympotic dialogues that occur naturally enough at such a conference, we spoke also about women’s freedoms in the late Augustan milieu, mostly as represented in Ovid’s literary production. Out of those rich discussions resulted a plan for further work on the topic, which now focused on the panel we had proposed for the FIEC conference, held in London in July 2019. Timing is everything: it is undeniable that 2017 and 2018 were two years in which a paradigm shift occurred vis-à-vis gender dynamics not just in the USA but in many parts of the world. Of course, in classical literature these issues are not new, since they gained strength in the field from the interesting approaches developed in feminist film studies in the 1970s.1 We thought, however, that (re)approaching the topic at this social and somewhat “global” juncture could be of interest; and it was in this particular conference, and now in this volume, we believe, that it is. Smith’s work on allusion and my own stylistic and poetic work on Latin literature allowed us to enlarge such a topic to a more comprehensive examination of one of the most innovative and still challenging aspects of Ovidian writing: that of female characters gaining physical, and psychological mastery over their male objects of desire, within a clear reversal of Roman accepted gendered patterns. From a perspective","PeriodicalId":46369,"journal":{"name":"CLASSICAL WORLD","volume":"115 1","pages":"1 - 3"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2021-11-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42481460","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 is interested in the animalistic, specifically canine, force of Hecuba in the Metamorphoses and the gendered and generic significance it takes on. Unpacking the nuances of Ovid's emphasis on the canine aspects of Hecuba's epic ira and his epicisation of her canine metamorphosis will elucidate the generic motivation behind Ovid's aesthetic and locational departures from literary tradition that shape his particular version of this well-known myth. This paper concludes that Ovid engages with epic features in his retelling so as to recuperate Hecuba as an epic figure rather than a tragic one.
{"title":"The Haunting Voice of Rabidity and Captivity: Sources and Inventions in Ovid's Hecuba Narrative","authors":"Cynthia Liu","doi":"10.1353/clw.2021.0028","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/clw.2021.0028","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT:This paper is interested in the animalistic, specifically canine, force of Hecuba in the Metamorphoses and the gendered and generic significance it takes on. Unpacking the nuances of Ovid's emphasis on the canine aspects of Hecuba's epic ira and his epicisation of her canine metamorphosis will elucidate the generic motivation behind Ovid's aesthetic and locational departures from literary tradition that shape his particular version of this well-known myth. This paper concludes that Ovid engages with epic features in his retelling so as to recuperate Hecuba as an epic figure rather than a tragic one.","PeriodicalId":46369,"journal":{"name":"CLASSICAL WORLD","volume":"115 1","pages":"24 - 5"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2021-11-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48139122","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 considers Ovid's allusion to his models including Homer, Vergil and Catullus, particularly within the context of Ovid's description of landscape in the Salmacis/Hermaphroditus episode. Ovid alludes to Vergil in such a way as to suggest comparison of Aeneas and Hermaphroditus, both sons of Venus, for each of whom landscape symbolizes sexual desire for and submission to a dominant female within that landscape. Ovid's allusive technique connects the poems through topographical allusion in such a way as to show similarities and contrast between both the epic characters and Augustan poets.
{"title":"The Enticement of Allusion: Epic Landscape and Language in Ovid's Salmacis/Hermaphroditus Episode","authors":"Alden Smith","doi":"10.1353/clw.2021.0031","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/clw.2021.0031","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT:This paper considers Ovid's allusion to his models including Homer, Vergil and Catullus, particularly within the context of Ovid's description of landscape in the Salmacis/Hermaphroditus episode. Ovid alludes to Vergil in such a way as to suggest comparison of Aeneas and Hermaphroditus, both sons of Venus, for each of whom landscape symbolizes sexual desire for and submission to a dominant female within that landscape. Ovid's allusive technique connects the poems through topographical allusion in such a way as to show similarities and contrast between both the epic characters and Augustan poets.","PeriodicalId":46369,"journal":{"name":"CLASSICAL WORLD","volume":"115 1","pages":"65 - 80"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2021-11-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43092981","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:Procne, Agave and Ino kill their sons in Ovid's Metamorphoses. Procne and her sister Philomela commit their crime in book 6. We argue that their actions are premeditated, conscious and not driven by insanity. The episodes of Agave and Ino (books 3 and 4) are then analyzed retrospectively in the light of Procne and Philomela. Although the Theban mothers' crimes are usually justified and understood as outcomes of Dyonisiac possession and madness, we tease out possibilities for female agency and responsibility, even questioning the general assumption of madness, which could preclude any independent thought and decision making in these women and would reduce them to examples of patriarchal and essential motherhood.
{"title":"Madness or Agency? Murdering Mothers in Ovid's Metamorphoses Procne, Agave and Ino","authors":"Patricia B. Salzman-Mitchell","doi":"10.1353/clw.2021.0029","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/clw.2021.0029","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT:Procne, Agave and Ino kill their sons in Ovid's Metamorphoses. Procne and her sister Philomela commit their crime in book 6. We argue that their actions are premeditated, conscious and not driven by insanity. The episodes of Agave and Ino (books 3 and 4) are then analyzed retrospectively in the light of Procne and Philomela. Although the Theban mothers' crimes are usually justified and understood as outcomes of Dyonisiac possession and madness, we tease out possibilities for female agency and responsibility, even questioning the general assumption of madness, which could preclude any independent thought and decision making in these women and would reduce them to examples of patriarchal and essential motherhood.","PeriodicalId":46369,"journal":{"name":"CLASSICAL WORLD","volume":"115 1","pages":"25 - 50"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2021-11-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42926611","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}
Protein-protein interactions (PPI) are pivotal to the numerous processes in the cell. Therefore, it is of interest to document the analysis of these interactions in terms of binding sites, topology of the interacting structures and physiochemical properties of interacting interfaces and the of forces interactions. The interaction interface of obligatory protein-protein complexes differs from that of the transient interactions. We have created a large database of protein-protein interactions containing over100 thousand interfaces. The structural redundancy was eliminated to obtain a non-redundant database of over 2,265 interaction interfaces. Therefore, it is of interest to document the analysis of these interactions in terms of binding sites, topology of the interacting structures and physiochemical properties of interacting interfaces and the offorces interactions. The residue interaction propensity and all of the rest of the parametric scores converged to a statistical indistinguishable common sub-range and followed the similar distribution trends for all three classes of sequence-based classifications PPInS. This indicates that the principles of molecular recognition are dependent on the preciseness of the fit in the interaction interfaces. Thus, it reinforces the importance of geometrical and electrostatic complementarity as the main determinants for PPIs.
{"title":"Geometrical and electro-static determinants of protein-protein interactions.","authors":"Vicky Kumar, Ashita Sood, Anjana Munshi, Tarkeshwar Gautam, Mahesh Kulharia","doi":"10.6026/97320630017851","DOIUrl":"10.6026/97320630017851","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Protein-protein interactions (PPI) are pivotal to the numerous processes in the cell. Therefore, it is of interest to document the analysis of these interactions in terms of binding sites, topology of the interacting structures and physiochemical properties of interacting interfaces and the of forces interactions. The interaction interface of obligatory protein-protein complexes differs from that of the transient interactions. We have created a large database of protein-protein interactions containing over100 thousand interfaces. The structural redundancy was eliminated to obtain a non-redundant database of over 2,265 interaction interfaces. Therefore, it is of interest to document the analysis of these interactions in terms of binding sites, topology of the interacting structures and physiochemical properties of interacting interfaces and the offorces interactions. The residue interaction propensity and all of the rest of the parametric scores converged to a statistical indistinguishable common sub-range and followed the similar distribution trends for all three classes of sequence-based classifications PPInS. This indicates that the principles of molecular recognition are dependent on the preciseness of the fit in the interaction interfaces. Thus, it reinforces the importance of geometrical and electrostatic complementarity as the main determinants for PPIs.</p>","PeriodicalId":46369,"journal":{"name":"CLASSICAL WORLD","volume":"95 1","pages":"851-860"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2021-10-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9070632/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86598863","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
ABSTRACT:Rodolfo Lanciani (1845–1929), the Italian archaeologist responsible for the Roman Forum campaign of c. 1876–84, visited the northeastern United States in the academic year of 1886–87 and delivered well-attended lectures on aspects of ancient Roman culture. The tour resulted in a publication, Ancient Rome in the Light of Recent Discoveries, issued in 1888. Lanciani's lectures played a part in a growing appreciation of ancient Roman over Greek culture, as late nineteenth-century Americans recognized similarities between their own values and those of ancient Rome and aspired to establish their legitimate place among the cultured nations of the world.
{"title":"Rodolfo Lanciani and America","authors":"S. Dixon","doi":"10.1353/clw.2021.0023","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/clw.2021.0023","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT:Rodolfo Lanciani (1845–1929), the Italian archaeologist responsible for the Roman Forum campaign of c. 1876–84, visited the northeastern United States in the academic year of 1886–87 and delivered well-attended lectures on aspects of ancient Roman culture. The tour resulted in a publication, Ancient Rome in the Light of Recent Discoveries, issued in 1888. Lanciani's lectures played a part in a growing appreciation of ancient Roman over Greek culture, as late nineteenth-century Americans recognized similarities between their own values and those of ancient Rome and aspired to establish their legitimate place among the cultured nations of the world.","PeriodicalId":46369,"journal":{"name":"CLASSICAL WORLD","volume":"114 1","pages":"449 - 475"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2021-08-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44064564","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":"Papers on Quintilian and Ancient Declamation by Michael Winterbottom (review)","authors":"W. Bloomer","doi":"10.1353/clw.2021.0018","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/clw.2021.0018","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46369,"journal":{"name":"CLASSICAL WORLD","volume":"114 1","pages":"482 - 484"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2021-08-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44345931","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 applies theoretical frameworks from disability studies to the Homeric epics to explore how agency is communicated through the representation of heroic bodies. After exploring the exceptional ugliness of Thersites in respect to the poetics of beauty in the Iliad, I argue that the Odyssey adapts notions of a functional body to privilege mental ability over physical strength. Such an adaptation complements rather than negates Iliadic values. The Odyssey's emphasis on Odysseus' marked and post-heroic body positions experience as a marker of agency re-positions bodily perfection as a symbol of perversity.
{"title":"Beautiful Bodies, Beautiful Minds: Some Applications of Disability Studies to Homer","authors":"J. Christensen","doi":"10.1353/clw.2021.0020","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/clw.2021.0020","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT:This paper applies theoretical frameworks from disability studies to the Homeric epics to explore how agency is communicated through the representation of heroic bodies. After exploring the exceptional ugliness of Thersites in respect to the poetics of beauty in the Iliad, I argue that the Odyssey adapts notions of a functional body to privilege mental ability over physical strength. Such an adaptation complements rather than negates Iliadic values. The Odyssey's emphasis on Odysseus' marked and post-heroic body positions experience as a marker of agency re-positions bodily perfection as a symbol of perversity.","PeriodicalId":46369,"journal":{"name":"CLASSICAL WORLD","volume":"114 1","pages":"365 - 393"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2021-08-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48155995","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 argues that fr. 11 W2 from the so-called new Simonides is among the many intertexts for Catullus 68. Simonides' fragmentary elegiacs commemorating those who fought in the Persian Wars offer a parallel for Catullus' inverted invocation and his engagement with Homer. This parallel comes into relief through an oblique recollection of the anecdotal tradition about Simonides. For the reader thinking about Simonides, this recollection equates Catullus and Simonides as poets of commemorative elegy, places the commemoration of Allius in a broader tradition of elegy, and brings poem 68 into focus as an exploration of generic convention.
{"title":"Catullus as Simonides: An Elegiac Lineage in Catullus 68","authors":"Lawrence M. Kowerski","doi":"10.1353/clw.2021.0021","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/clw.2021.0021","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT:This paper argues that fr. 11 W2 from the so-called new Simonides is among the many intertexts for Catullus 68. Simonides' fragmentary elegiacs commemorating those who fought in the Persian Wars offer a parallel for Catullus' inverted invocation and his engagement with Homer. This parallel comes into relief through an oblique recollection of the anecdotal tradition about Simonides. For the reader thinking about Simonides, this recollection equates Catullus and Simonides as poets of commemorative elegy, places the commemoration of Allius in a broader tradition of elegy, and brings poem 68 into focus as an exploration of generic convention.","PeriodicalId":46369,"journal":{"name":"CLASSICAL WORLD","volume":"114 1","pages":"395 - 418"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2021-08-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47249057","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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