Catullus, Nepos, and the Muse

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Preface V
3. Contents VII
4. Format and Abbreviations XI
5. Classical Enrichment: In Praise of Stephen Harrison XIII
6. An Overview of this Volume XXI
7. Part I: Greek and Roman Interactions
8. Text and Context: A Question of Method 1
9. Hellenistic Literature and Latin Literature: Towards Totality 17
10. Horace at the Symposium: Talking with Maecenas and Messalla, Singing with Lyde and Phyllis 35
11. Healing One’s Sorrow with the Miseries of Others: Consolation and Schadenfreude in Greek and Roman Thought 55
12. Part II: Early and Late Republican Literature
13. Rival Plotlines and Lovers’ Hardships in Plautus’ Asinaria 71
14. Catullus, Nepos, and the Muse 85
15. Catullus’ Dirty Kiss (c. 99): Roman Poetry’s #MeToo Moment 95
16. Cicero’s Marius and his Marius: Life, Dreams, and Intertext 109
17. Part III: Augustan Poetry
18. Iambic Parody in Horace’s Epode 11: A Variation on Vergil’s Generic Games in Eclogue 10? 127
19. Virgil and the Roman Republic: Continuity and Rupture 145
20. Aeneas, the Penates, and Italian Nationalism 161
21. Dido’s First Curse (A. 4.380–387) 173
22. Turnus Donning Tragedy: The Baldric in Virgil’s Aeneid 199
23. Notes on the Text and Interpretation of Horace’s Odes and Carmen Saeculare 217
24. Editing Sulpicia 235
25. Et mihi cedet amor: The Revenge of an Abusive Master in Ars amatoria’s Proem 247
26. Amor and amicitia: Ovid’s Ars and the Ancient Discourse on Friendship 255
27. The Lover’s Calendar (Ars amatoria 1.399–418) 271
28. Part IV: The Ancient Novel
29. Recasting Epic in Petronius’ “Dinner at Trimalchio’s” 285
30. Planet Earth: The Paradoxographic Turn in Antonius Diogenes, Achilles Tatius, Iamblichus, and Longus 305
31. Posthuman Style: Syzygic Affirmations in Achilles Tatius 323
32. Reevaluating and Repositioning the Historia Apollonii Regis Tyri 337
33. Part V: Reception
34. The Rape Scene in Terence’s Eunuchus and its Reception in the Joseph Plays in the 16^th Century 347
35. Endless Pleasure: Congreve’s Semele and her Classical Past 365
36. Revolutionary Psyche 381
37. Bann Valley Eclogues 397
38. Crossing Bridges: Derek Mahon and a Resistant Tragic Tradition 413
39. Staying Home with Hesiod: Peter Fallon’s Deeds and Their Days 423
40. List of Contributors 441
41. General Index 447
42. Index of Manuscripts and Annotated Volumes 455
43. Index of Passages 457