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Showing 1 to 16 of 16 for “"Latin poetry"”.
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The Ideal of Lucretia in Augustan Latin Poetry
This study concerns the figure of Lucretia as she is presented by the Roman historian Livy in the first book of Ab Urbe Condita, where she is intended as an example of virtue, particularly in terms of her attention to woolworking. To find evidence for this ideal and how it was regarded at the time, …
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Making Monsters: The Monstrous-Feminine In Horace and Catullus
… to discuss two abject figures in Latin poetry, Lesbia of the Catullan corpus, and Canidia, a witch who appears in Horace's early poetry. Both female figures are constructed as monsters within the poetry that exude devastating heat, cross accepted boundaries, and evoke horror in …
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Empire and poetry in the Roman republic
In this thesis I rethink the interface between poetry and empire in the last two centuries of the Roman republic. I bring together republican Latin poetry and historical approaches to Roman imperialism in a kind of Saidian ‘contrapuntal reading’. This allows new insights into the poetry of Lucilius …
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Geography and Space in the Poetry of Prudentius
… the themes of geography and space in the poetry of the late antique Latin poet Prudentius (348-c.405 CE). The first chapter discusses the geography of reading, and suggests that Prudentius’ Peristephanon provides a means for the reader to experience the sites of the cults of the martyrs by …
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"Love is Eloquence": Richard Crashaw and the Development of a Discourse of Divine Love
My thesis takes as its subject the poetry of Richard Crashaw. Crashaw aims to represent a mutual relationship of love between God and humanity, which is modelled on the discourses of earthly, erotic love. However, such a relationship, and its expression is highly problematic. Love, and this kind of …
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"Love is Eloquence": Richard Crashaw and the Development of a Discourse of Divine Love
My thesis takes as its subject the poetry of Richard Crashaw. Crashaw aims to represent a mutual relationship of love between God and humanity, which is modelled on the discourses of earthly, erotic love. However, such a relationship, and its expression is highly problematic. Love, and this kind of …
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A commentary on selected passages of Statius, Thebaid 6
… in the paradoxical affecting every aspect of his poetry. Although the text used for this thesis is based on the edition of Hall and his collaborators (2007-2008), the notes frequently espouse diverging editorial decisions, which are reflected in the corresponding lemmata. The commentary takes a …
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Pregnancy and Childbirth in the Poetry of Ovid
… interrogates these vital questions within the poetry of Ovid, a central figure in contemporary conversations around gender and the Classics. Although discussion of women in Ovid has long concentrated primarily on rape, his focus on childbirth is unique within Latin poetry, offering us some of …
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The psychology of satire: Epicurean ethics in Horace's Sermones
… of the Epicurean sect, in Horace’s satiric poetry. It endeavors to highlight the important influence of one of Horace’s contemporaries and neighbor in Italy, the Epicurean philosopher and poet Philodemus of Gadara. This is done through considerations of Horace’s self-portrayal as a qualified …
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A Commentary on the first 118 lines of John of Garland's Integumenta Ovidii
… of Garland’s Integumenta Ovidii, a 13th century Latin poem that allegorizes the myths of Ovid’s Metamorphoses. The Integumenta has received little scholarly attention, with the most recent edition having been published in 1933. This thesis seeks to improve upon the understanding of the poem’s …
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Spectres of Metre: English Poetry in Classical Measures, 1860-1930
… poets attempt English verse in Ancient Greek and Latin metres during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries? And what was at stake in these attempts? The most immediate importance of these questions to literary criticism is the fact that they mark one of the most striking and consistent …
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Every dog has their poem: readings in the Cynegetica of Grattius and Nemesianus
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'U of I Access', the embargo will last until 2024-05-01
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Poetic genetics : family, sexual reproduction, and community in Lucretius' De rerum natura
My dissertation examines family, sexual reproduction, and community in Lucretius’ poem De Rerum Natura and reconsiders the importance of these topics in Lucretius’ formulation of Epicureanism for a Roman audience. I argue that Lucretius modifies Epicurus’ teachings about family and sex to render …
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Women Without Faces: Exemplary Control in Ovid's Amores 2
A critical analysis of the second book of Roman poet Ovid’s work of erotic elegies, Amores. Through a close reading of several crucial poems in book 2 of this work (2.17, 2.4-5, 2.2-3, and 2.7-8) and the application of modern literary and gender theories, such as the idea of gender performativity …
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Gender, text, and the body in Martial’s Epigrams
… creative output of an author or artist, and the Latin word corpus is traditionally used to signify the bulk of a textual work because it represents a whole being made of many parts. This dissertation explores Martial’s Epigrams to ask how the poet presents his own work as a whole, gendered entity …
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Julius Caesar, Fortune, and Latin Historiography in Twelfth-Century England
This thesis suggests that four twelfth-century English historians – Orderic Vitalis, William of Malmesbury, Henry of Huntingdon, and Robert of Lewes (as probable author of the Gesta Stephani) – believed that they had identified a schema that could determine who and what was culpable for engendering …