Exegi monumentum aere perenniusregalique situ pyramidum altius,quod non imber edax, non aquilo im... more Exegi monumentum aere perenniusregalique situ pyramidum altius,quod non imber edax, non aquilo impotenspossit diruere aut innumerabilisannorum series et fuga temporum. 5non omnis moriar multaque pars meivitabit Libitinam: usque ego poster acrescam laude recens, dum Capitoliumscandet cum tacita virgine pontifex:dicar, qua violens obstrepit Aufidus 10et qua pauper aquae Daunus agrestiumregnavit populorum, ex humili potensprinceps Aeolium carmen ad Italosdeduxisse modos. sume superbiamquaesitam meritis et mihi Delphica 15lauro cinge volens, Melpomene, comam.(I have finished a monument more lasting than bronze and loftier than the pyramids' royal pile, one that no wasting rain, no furious north wind can destroy, or the countless chain of years and the ages' flight. I shall not altogether die, but a mighty part of me shall escape the death-goddess. On and on shall I grow, ever fresh with the glory of after time: so long as the pontiff climbs the Capitol with the silent Vestal, I,...
... Unity and Design in Aeneid V 217 ... games to human sacrifice, and thereby forms another link... more ... Unity and Design in Aeneid V 217 ... games to human sacrifice, and thereby forms another link in the chain which soon leads to Palinurus.22 The next and final event of the games is archery, and the target, borrowed from Homer, is a dove hanging by a cord from the ship's mast. ...
... Virgil's poem of the earth: Studies in the Georgics. Post a Comment. CONTRIBUTOR... more ... Virgil's poem of the earth: Studies in the Georgics. Post a Comment. CONTRIBUTORS: ...
This essay examines the imaginative connection between c. 3.27 of Horace, one of the poet’s longe... more This essay examines the imaginative connection between c. 3.27 of Horace, one of the poet’s longest and most intense odes, and a salient episode in book 9 of Virgil’s Aeneid. In particular it searches out the multivalent appearances of the concept of pietas in the descriptions of Europe’s behavior toward her father and of Nisus and Euryalus. In their case we attend both to the association between the two innamorati themselves and to that between Euryalus and his mother. I take it for granted that the two Latin masters knew and valued the work of each other.
This essay offers a close examination of Statius’s Silvae 3.2, a propempticon for Maecius Celer. ... more This essay offers a close examination of Statius’s Silvae 3.2, a propempticon for Maecius Celer. Using earlier Latin farewell poems as intellectual background, I illustrate the poet’s originality. In particular I watch how he makes use of different genres, such as lyric and epic, and especially of the Aeneid, as he crafts a meditation on a series of curricula vitae that illuminate Celer’s own voyage. Figures involved include Cleopatra and Alexander the Great as well as Virgil himself and his characters, Aeneas and Dido.
This essay examines the relationship between the conclusions of Virgil’s Aeneid and the Thebaid o... more This essay examines the relationship between the conclusions of Virgil’s Aeneid and the Thebaid of Statius. Its argument centers on the later poet’s elimination of eroticism and emphasis on clementia. Virgil’s Dido and Pallas are replaced by Parthenopaeus, and private violence yields to universal mourning. In conclusion I propose a linkage between Parthenopaeus, Parthenope, and the two poets, each with special connections to the Siren’s city.
in the. book by Michael C.J. Putnam A pastoral lifestyle see pastoralism is that of shepherds her... more in the. book by Michael C.J. Putnam A pastoral lifestyle see pastoralism is that of shepherds herding livestock around open areas of land according to seasons and the changing availability of water and pasture. It lends its name to a genre of literature, art, and music that depicts such life The eroticism of Virgils second eclogue, Formosum pastor Corydon ardebat ?Pastoral and the Humanities: Arcadia Re-inscribed-Google Books Result OLoughlin, M.
Abstract:This essay presents a detailed literary analysis of Statius's Silvae 1.3 which honor... more Abstract:This essay presents a detailed literary analysis of Statius's Silvae 1.3 which honors Manilius Vopiscus and his Tiburtine villa. My reading follows the progress of the poem, as it first outlines the quality of the domain as a whole, then examines aspects of what a visitor might encounter. I survey Statius's varied use of ekphrasis and trace his patterns of allusion, especially to the work of Virgil. Eroticism is a salient theme throughout as is the importance of a series of bodies of water, especially the river Anio, to the poem's evolution.
Propertius' friend Tullus is the recipient of five poems, four from the Monobiblos, which tell us... more Propertius' friend Tullus is the recipient of five poems, four from the Monobiblos, which tell us as much about the poet as about his interlocutor. The first poem, initiating the collection, announces the taut suffering of Propertius' affair with Cynthia, and the envoi of the book expands self-scrutiny into the wider scope of a land maimed by civic hostility. Two intervening elegies, 6 and 14, look to specific differences between poet and acquaintance. Tullus is richer and loveless, Propertius caught in passion's toils (and Tullus should be wary!). Tullus also is a servant of the state, and is associated with Ionia and Lydia, with the Pactolus as well as the Tiber. Engrossed by his allegiance to armata patria (1.6.22), to his fatherland under arms, he has no time for love or marriage. Finally, with one book of poems and presumably some time intervening, Propertius imagines Tullus' reorientation toward Rome and amor in the extraordinary twenty-second poem of book 3.1 Thought of this literal return to the mother city from Cyzicus, where Tullus has apparently been stationed on the Propontis, sparks a meditation not only on what this means for Tullus' life but also on differing concepts of public and private ethics, of heroism and individual dignity, and the landscape backgrounds which embody their continuity. There can be little doubt that Propertius measured his thoughts against Virgil's famous laudes Italiae of georgic 2, and the challenging moral dilemmas of the 1 The most valuable critical discussion of 3.22 is by W. R. Nethercut "The Ironic Priest: Propertius' 'Roman Elegies' III, 1-5: Imitations of Horace and Vergil," AJP 91 (1970), 385-407, esp. 403 ff. He does much to counter the strictures of E. Paratore in "Virgilio georgico e Properzio," A&R 10 (1942), 49-58 ("pedisequa imitazione," 53). It is surely no accident that 3.22 bears the same number in its book as the last preceding apostrophe to Tullus, 1.22 (on which see M. C. J. Putnam, "Propertius 1.22: A Poet's Self-definition" forthcoming in Quademi Urbinati).
My essay is a close reading of the initial poem of the third book of Statius’s Silvae. Its primar... more 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.
... fide. insignem tenui fronte Lycorida 5 Cyri torret amor, Cyrus in asperam declinat Pholoen; s... more ... fide. insignem tenui fronte Lycorida 5 Cyri torret amor, Cyrus in asperam declinat Pholoen; sed prius Apulis iungentur capreae lupis, quam turpi Pholoe peccet adultero. ... relationships. Overcalculation, says Hor-ace, is impossible. ...
Page 1. NOTES AND DISCUSSIONS 251 From the Possible Best of Cena Trim. Estate Imports Its Kind Va... more Page 1. NOTES AND DISCUSSIONS 251 From the Possible Best of Cena Trim. Estate Imports Its Kind Varro Horace Juvenal Apicius 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 glis X X X granum X X lepus X + + X locusta X X malum Cydoniuml5 X X X malum Punicum16 X X malum X + X mel X X mullus X ...
1. See W. E. Heitland's Introduction to C. E.Haskins' Lucan (London, 1887), p. cxxvi. Hei... more 1. See W. E. Heitland's Introduction to C. E.Haskins' Lucan (London, 1887), p. cxxvi. Heitland here juxtaposes Aen. 2. 573: "Troiae et patriae communis Erinys" and BC 10. 59: "Latii feralis Erinys," adding between parentheses after the Lucanian quotation "cf 60-1." 2. In his recent (Oxford, 1964) exegetical edition of Aeneid 2 Professor Austin ad 573 s.vv. communis Erinys quotes BC 10. 59, with the comment "(an actual imitation ?)."
Page 1. CATULLUS' JOURNEY (Carm. 4) MICHAEL CJ PUTNAM ftR jRELY has a poem beeii sui... more Page 1. CATULLUS' JOURNEY (Carm. 4) MICHAEL CJ PUTNAM ftR jRELY has a poem beeii suibjected to exegesis exhibiting more violeint conitrasts than Catullus" Phaselus ille (Carm. 4).1 Critical approaches to-ward it, almost ...
Page 1. CLASSICAL PHILOLOGY VOLUME LV, NUMBER 4 October 1960 CATULLUS 66. 75-88 MICHAEL CJ PUTNAM... more Page 1. CLASSICAL PHILOLOGY VOLUME LV, NUMBER 4 October 1960 CATULLUS 66. 75-88 MICHAEL CJ PUTNAM L INES 79-88 break into Catullus 66 in a form which seems clearly a digression. In the preceding dis-tichs ...
Exegi monumentum aere perenniusregalique situ pyramidum altius,quod non imber edax, non aquilo im... more Exegi monumentum aere perenniusregalique situ pyramidum altius,quod non imber edax, non aquilo impotenspossit diruere aut innumerabilisannorum series et fuga temporum. 5non omnis moriar multaque pars meivitabit Libitinam: usque ego poster acrescam laude recens, dum Capitoliumscandet cum tacita virgine pontifex:dicar, qua violens obstrepit Aufidus 10et qua pauper aquae Daunus agrestiumregnavit populorum, ex humili potensprinceps Aeolium carmen ad Italosdeduxisse modos. sume superbiamquaesitam meritis et mihi Delphica 15lauro cinge volens, Melpomene, comam.(I have finished a monument more lasting than bronze and loftier than the pyramids' royal pile, one that no wasting rain, no furious north wind can destroy, or the countless chain of years and the ages' flight. I shall not altogether die, but a mighty part of me shall escape the death-goddess. On and on shall I grow, ever fresh with the glory of after time: so long as the pontiff climbs the Capitol with the silent Vestal, I,...
... Unity and Design in Aeneid V 217 ... games to human sacrifice, and thereby forms another link... more ... Unity and Design in Aeneid V 217 ... games to human sacrifice, and thereby forms another link in the chain which soon leads to Palinurus.22 The next and final event of the games is archery, and the target, borrowed from Homer, is a dove hanging by a cord from the ship's mast. ...
... Virgil's poem of the earth: Studies in the Georgics. Post a Comment. CONTRIBUTOR... more ... Virgil's poem of the earth: Studies in the Georgics. Post a Comment. CONTRIBUTORS: ...
This essay examines the imaginative connection between c. 3.27 of Horace, one of the poet’s longe... more This essay examines the imaginative connection between c. 3.27 of Horace, one of the poet’s longest and most intense odes, and a salient episode in book 9 of Virgil’s Aeneid. In particular it searches out the multivalent appearances of the concept of pietas in the descriptions of Europe’s behavior toward her father and of Nisus and Euryalus. In their case we attend both to the association between the two innamorati themselves and to that between Euryalus and his mother. I take it for granted that the two Latin masters knew and valued the work of each other.
This essay offers a close examination of Statius’s Silvae 3.2, a propempticon for Maecius Celer. ... more This essay offers a close examination of Statius’s Silvae 3.2, a propempticon for Maecius Celer. Using earlier Latin farewell poems as intellectual background, I illustrate the poet’s originality. In particular I watch how he makes use of different genres, such as lyric and epic, and especially of the Aeneid, as he crafts a meditation on a series of curricula vitae that illuminate Celer’s own voyage. Figures involved include Cleopatra and Alexander the Great as well as Virgil himself and his characters, Aeneas and Dido.
This essay examines the relationship between the conclusions of Virgil’s Aeneid and the Thebaid o... more This essay examines the relationship between the conclusions of Virgil’s Aeneid and the Thebaid of Statius. Its argument centers on the later poet’s elimination of eroticism and emphasis on clementia. Virgil’s Dido and Pallas are replaced by Parthenopaeus, and private violence yields to universal mourning. In conclusion I propose a linkage between Parthenopaeus, Parthenope, and the two poets, each with special connections to the Siren’s city.
in the. book by Michael C.J. Putnam A pastoral lifestyle see pastoralism is that of shepherds her... more in the. book by Michael C.J. Putnam A pastoral lifestyle see pastoralism is that of shepherds herding livestock around open areas of land according to seasons and the changing availability of water and pasture. It lends its name to a genre of literature, art, and music that depicts such life The eroticism of Virgils second eclogue, Formosum pastor Corydon ardebat ?Pastoral and the Humanities: Arcadia Re-inscribed-Google Books Result OLoughlin, M.
Abstract:This essay presents a detailed literary analysis of Statius's Silvae 1.3 which honor... more Abstract:This essay presents a detailed literary analysis of Statius's Silvae 1.3 which honors Manilius Vopiscus and his Tiburtine villa. My reading follows the progress of the poem, as it first outlines the quality of the domain as a whole, then examines aspects of what a visitor might encounter. I survey Statius's varied use of ekphrasis and trace his patterns of allusion, especially to the work of Virgil. Eroticism is a salient theme throughout as is the importance of a series of bodies of water, especially the river Anio, to the poem's evolution.
Propertius' friend Tullus is the recipient of five poems, four from the Monobiblos, which tell us... more Propertius' friend Tullus is the recipient of five poems, four from the Monobiblos, which tell us as much about the poet as about his interlocutor. The first poem, initiating the collection, announces the taut suffering of Propertius' affair with Cynthia, and the envoi of the book expands self-scrutiny into the wider scope of a land maimed by civic hostility. Two intervening elegies, 6 and 14, look to specific differences between poet and acquaintance. Tullus is richer and loveless, Propertius caught in passion's toils (and Tullus should be wary!). Tullus also is a servant of the state, and is associated with Ionia and Lydia, with the Pactolus as well as the Tiber. Engrossed by his allegiance to armata patria (1.6.22), to his fatherland under arms, he has no time for love or marriage. Finally, with one book of poems and presumably some time intervening, Propertius imagines Tullus' reorientation toward Rome and amor in the extraordinary twenty-second poem of book 3.1 Thought of this literal return to the mother city from Cyzicus, where Tullus has apparently been stationed on the Propontis, sparks a meditation not only on what this means for Tullus' life but also on differing concepts of public and private ethics, of heroism and individual dignity, and the landscape backgrounds which embody their continuity. There can be little doubt that Propertius measured his thoughts against Virgil's famous laudes Italiae of georgic 2, and the challenging moral dilemmas of the 1 The most valuable critical discussion of 3.22 is by W. R. Nethercut "The Ironic Priest: Propertius' 'Roman Elegies' III, 1-5: Imitations of Horace and Vergil," AJP 91 (1970), 385-407, esp. 403 ff. He does much to counter the strictures of E. Paratore in "Virgilio georgico e Properzio," A&R 10 (1942), 49-58 ("pedisequa imitazione," 53). It is surely no accident that 3.22 bears the same number in its book as the last preceding apostrophe to Tullus, 1.22 (on which see M. C. J. Putnam, "Propertius 1.22: A Poet's Self-definition" forthcoming in Quademi Urbinati).
My essay is a close reading of the initial poem of the third book of Statius’s Silvae. Its primar... more 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.
... fide. insignem tenui fronte Lycorida 5 Cyri torret amor, Cyrus in asperam declinat Pholoen; s... more ... fide. insignem tenui fronte Lycorida 5 Cyri torret amor, Cyrus in asperam declinat Pholoen; sed prius Apulis iungentur capreae lupis, quam turpi Pholoe peccet adultero. ... relationships. Overcalculation, says Hor-ace, is impossible. ...
Page 1. NOTES AND DISCUSSIONS 251 From the Possible Best of Cena Trim. Estate Imports Its Kind Va... more Page 1. NOTES AND DISCUSSIONS 251 From the Possible Best of Cena Trim. Estate Imports Its Kind Varro Horace Juvenal Apicius 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 glis X X X granum X X lepus X + + X locusta X X malum Cydoniuml5 X X X malum Punicum16 X X malum X + X mel X X mullus X ...
1. See W. E. Heitland's Introduction to C. E.Haskins' Lucan (London, 1887), p. cxxvi. Hei... more 1. See W. E. Heitland's Introduction to C. E.Haskins' Lucan (London, 1887), p. cxxvi. Heitland here juxtaposes Aen. 2. 573: "Troiae et patriae communis Erinys" and BC 10. 59: "Latii feralis Erinys," adding between parentheses after the Lucanian quotation "cf 60-1." 2. In his recent (Oxford, 1964) exegetical edition of Aeneid 2 Professor Austin ad 573 s.vv. communis Erinys quotes BC 10. 59, with the comment "(an actual imitation ?)."
Page 1. CATULLUS' JOURNEY (Carm. 4) MICHAEL CJ PUTNAM ftR jRELY has a poem beeii sui... more Page 1. CATULLUS' JOURNEY (Carm. 4) MICHAEL CJ PUTNAM ftR jRELY has a poem beeii suibjected to exegesis exhibiting more violeint conitrasts than Catullus" Phaselus ille (Carm. 4).1 Critical approaches to-ward it, almost ...
Page 1. CLASSICAL PHILOLOGY VOLUME LV, NUMBER 4 October 1960 CATULLUS 66. 75-88 MICHAEL CJ PUTNAM... more Page 1. CLASSICAL PHILOLOGY VOLUME LV, NUMBER 4 October 1960 CATULLUS 66. 75-88 MICHAEL CJ PUTNAM L INES 79-88 break into Catullus 66 in a form which seems clearly a digression. In the preceding dis-tichs ...
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