bibliography
general:
Barton, T. (1994) Power and Knowledge: Astrology, Physiognomics and Medicine in the Roman Empire. Michigan.
Berzins-McCoy, M. (2013) Wounded Heroes. Vulnerability as a Virtue in Ancient Greek Literature and Philosophy. Oxford.
Bradley, K. (1987) Slaves and Masters in the Roman Empire: A Study in Social Control. Oxford.
Braund, S. and Gold, B.K (eds.) (1998) Vile Bodies. Roman Satire and Corporeal Discourse. Arethusa 31. Baltimore.
Brison, S. (2003) Aftermath: Violence and the Remaking of the Self. Princeton.
Butler, J. (2004) Precarious Life. The Powers of Mourning and Violence. London and New York.
Edwards, C. (1993) The Politics of Immorality in Ancient Rome. Cambridge.
Fineman, M. (2013) The Vulnerable Subject: Anchoring Equality in the Human Condition. Princeton.
Fitzgerald, W. (2000) Slavery and the Roman Literary Imagination. Cambridge.
Gunderson, Erik (2000) Staging Masculinity. The Rhetoric of Performance in the Roman World. Ann Arbor.
Hillman, D. and Maude, U (eds.) (2015) The Cambridge Companion to the Body in Literature. Cambridge.
Laes, C., Goodey, C.F. and Lynn Rose, M. (eds.) (2013) Disabilities in the Roman Antiquity: Disparate Bodies. Leiden and Boston.
Langlands, R. (2006) Sexual Morality in Ancient Rome. Cambridge.
Mackenzie, C., Rogers, W., and Dodds, S. (eds.) (2014) Vulnerability: New Essays in Ethics and Feminist Philosophy. Oxford.
Monserrat, D. (ed.) (1997) Changing Bodies, Changing Meanings. Studies of the Body in Antiquity. London and New York.
Murphy, A. (2011) 鈥楥orporeal vulnerability and the new humanism鈥� in Hypatia 26.3: 575-590.
Parkin, T. (2003) Old Age in the Roman World. Johns Hopkins.
Porter, J. (ed.) (1999) Constructions of the Classical Body. Ann Arbor.
Romm, J. (2014) Dying Every Day. Seneca at the Court of Nero. New York.
Valttinen, T. (2015) 鈥楾he power of the vulnerable body鈥� in The International Feminist Journal of Politics 17.1.
Williams, C. (1998) Roman Homosexuality. Ideologies of Masculinity in Classical Antiquity. Oxford.
Worman, N. (2009) 鈥楤odies and Topographies in Ancient Stylistic Theory鈥� in T.F枚gen and M.M.Lee (eds.) Bodies and Boundaries in Graeco-Roman Antiquity. Berlin and New York, 45-62.
Wyke, M. (ed.) (1998) Parchments of Gender: Deciphering the Bodies of Antiquity. Oxford.
Author/text specific bibliography (commentaries are printed in bold)
Term 1 Weeks 2-3:
Ovid Amores
Booth, J. (1991) Ovid. The Second Book of Amores. Edited with translation and commentary. Warminster.
James, S. L. (2003) Learned Girls and Male Persuasion. Gender and Reading in Roman Love Elegy. Berkeley and LA.
Fitzgerald (2000) Slavery and the Roman Literary Imagination. Cambridge. Esp. 63-68. See also Fitzgerald (2021) 鈥楾he slave between absence and presence鈥� in Geue and Giusti (eds.) Unspoken Rome. Absence in Latin Literature and its Reception, Cambridge, 239-49.
Gold, B. (1993) 鈥� 鈥淏ut Ariande was never there in the first place鈥�: Finding the female in Roman poetry鈥� in N. S. Rabinowitz and A. Richlin (eds.) Feminist Theory and the Classics. New York and London, 75-101.
Hallett, J.P. (2015) 鈥楳aking Manhood Hard鈥� in M.Masterson, N.Sorkin Rabinowitz and Robson, J. (eds.) (2015) Sex in Antiquity. Exploring Gender and Sexuality in the Ancient World. New York and London, 408-421.
Henker, J. (1985) 鈥楻ape and the founding of Rome鈥� Helios 12: 41-8.
James, S. (1997) 鈥楽lave-Rape and Female Silence in Ovid鈥檚 Love Poetry,鈥� Helios 24: 60–76.
Kennedy, D. (1993) The Arts of Love. Five Studies in the Discourse of Roman Love Elegy, Cambridge.
McCarthy, K. (1998) 鈥�Servitium amoris: Amor servitii鈥�, in Murnaghan and Joshel (eds.), Women and Slaves in Greco-Roman Culture. London鈥�, 174-92鈥�
McKeown, J.C. (1989) Ovid Amores: Text, Prolegomena, Commentary. A Commentary on Book 1. Leeds.
Murgatroyd, P. (1981) 鈥�Servitium amoris and the Roman elegists鈥� Latomus 49: 589-606.
Oliensis, E. (2014) 鈥楾he paratext of Amores 1: gaming the system鈥� in Jansen (ed.) The Roman Paratext. Cambridge, 206-223.
Richlin, A. (1992) 鈥楻eading Ovid鈥檚 rapes鈥� in Richlin (ed.) Pornography and Representation in Greece and Rome. Oxford, 158-179.
Sharrock, A. (1995) 鈥楾he drooping rose: elegiac failure in Amores 3.7鈥� in Ramus 24: 152-80.
Sharrock, A. (2002) 鈥楧iscourses of love: the amatory works鈥� in P.Hardie (ed.) The Cambridge Companion to Ovid. Cambridge, 150-65.
Weeks 4-5
Horace Epodes
Clayman, D. L. (1975) 鈥楬orace鈥檚 Epodes: more than clever obscenity?鈥� Classical World 69: 55-61.
Fitzgerald, W. (1988) 鈥楶ower and Impotence in Horace鈥檚 Epodes鈥� Ramus 17: 176-91.
Gowers, E. (1993) 鈥楪arlic breath: Horace Epode 3鈥� in Gowers, The Loaded Table, Oxford, 280-310.
Henderson, J. (1987) 鈥楽uck it and see (Horace Epode 8)鈥� in Whitby and Hardie (eds.) Homo Viator: Classical Essays for John Bramble. 105-18. Extended version in Henderson (1999) Writing Down Rome. Oxford, 93-113.
Henderson, J. (1999) 鈥楬orace talks rough and dirty: no comment (Horace Epodes 8 and 12)鈥� in Scholia 8.3-16.
Lavery, H. (2014) The Impotence poem from Ancient Latin to Restoration English Literature. Farnham, Surrey. (Chapters 1-3).
Nisbet, R. (1984) 鈥楬orace鈥檚 Epodes and History鈥� in Woodman and West (eds.) Poetry and Politics in the Age of Augustus. 1-18.
Oliensis, E. (1998) 鈥楳aking faces in the mirror: the Epodes and civil war鈥� in Horace and the Rhetoric of Authority. Cambridge, 64-101.
Porter, D. H. (1995) 鈥楺uo, quo scelesti ruitis: the downward momentum of Horace鈥檚 Epodes鈥� Illinois Classical Studies 20: 107-30.
Watson, L.C. (2003) A commentary on Horace鈥檚 Epodes. Oxford.
McLaren, A. (2007) Impotence. A Cultural History. Chicago. (esp. Chapter 1)
Richlin, A. (1983) The Garden of Priapus. Sexuality and Aggression in Roman Humor. Yale.
Watson, L. (2007) 鈥楾he Epodes: Horace鈥檚 Archilochus?鈥� in S.Harrison (ed.) The Cambridge Companion to Horace. Cambridge, 93-104.
Weeks 7-8:
Horace Satires
Barchiesi, A. and Cucchiarelli, A. (2005) 鈥楽atire and the poet: the body as self- referential symbol鈥� in Freudenburg, K. (ed.) The Cambridge Companion to Roman Satire. Cambridge, 207-223.
Braund, S. and Gold. B. (1998) Vile Bodies: Roman Satire and Corporeal Discourse. Arethusa 31 special issue.
Freudenburg, K. (2001) Satires of Rome: Threatening Poses from Lucilius to Juvenal. Cambridge (chapters 1 and 2)
Freudenburg, K. (ed.) (2005) The Cambridge Companion to Roman Satire. Cambridge.
Gowers, E. (2012) Horace Satires 1. Cambridge.
Gunderson, E. (2005) 'The libidinal rhetoric of satire' in Freudenburg (ed.) The Cambridge Companion to Roman Satire, 224-242.
Henderson, J. (1999) 鈥楤e alert (your country needs lerts): Horace Satires 1.9鈥� in Henderson (1999) Writing Down Rome. Oxford, 202-227.
Muecke, F. (2007) 鈥楾he Satires鈥� in S.Harrison (ed.) The Cambridge Companion to Horace. Cambridge, 105-120.
Oliensis, E. (1998) Horace and the Rhetoric of Authority. Cambridge.
Weeks 9-10
笔丑补别诲谤耻蝉鈥� Fables
Champlin, E. (2005) 鈥楶haedrus the fabulous鈥� Journal of Roman Studies 95: 97-123.
Geue, T. (2019) Author Unknown. The Power of Anonymity in Ancient Rome. Harvard. [ch. On Phaedrus]
Glauthier, P. (2009) 鈥楶haedrus, Callimachus and the recusatio to success鈥� Classical Antiquity 28: 248-78.
Henderson, J. (2001). Telling Tales on Caesar. Roman Stories from Phaedrus. Oxford. (includes texts and detailed commentary)
Henderson, J. (1999) 鈥槺食蟛贡鸹灏懿踱�� Fables: the original corpus鈥� Mnemosyne 452: 308-29.
Jennings, V. (2009) 鈥楤orrowed Plumes: 笔丑补别诲谤耻蝉鈥� fables, 笔丑补别诲谤耻蝉鈥� failures鈥� in Dominik, Garthwaite and Roche (eds.) Writing Politics in Imperial Rome. Leiden, 225-48.
Libby, B.B. (2010) 鈥楾he intersection of poetic and imperial authority in 笔丑补别诲谤耻蝉鈥� fables鈥� in Classical Quarterly 60: 545-58.
Mann, K. (2019) 鈥楻eading gender in 笔丑补别诲谤耻蝉鈥� Fabulae鈥� Classical Journal 115.2: 201-27.
Marchesi, I. (2005) 鈥楾races of a freed language: Horace, Petronius and the rhetoric of fable鈥� in Classical Antiquity 24: 307-30.
Polt, C. B. (2014-15) 鈥楶olity across the pond: democracy, republic and empire in Phaedrus Fables 1.20' in Classical Journal 110: 161-90.
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Term 2
Week 1:
Aim to read more of the general bibliography (see top of page)
Weeks 2-3:
Persius' Satires
Barchiesi, A. and Cucchiarelli, A. (2005) 鈥楽atire and the poet: the body as self- referential symbol鈥� in Freudenburg, K. (ed.) The Cambridge Companion to Roman Satire. Cambridge, 207-223.
Barr, W. and Lee.G. (1987) The Satires of Persius. Text, Translation, Commentary. Liverpool.
Bartsch-Zimmer, S. (2015) Persius. A Study in Food, Philosophy and the Figural. Chicago.
Behr, F. d'A. (2009) 'Open bodies and closed minds? Persius' Saturae in the light of Bakhtin and Voloshinov' in M.Plaza (ed.) Persius and Juvenal. Oxford Readings in Classical Studies. Oxford, 222-54.
Bramble, J. (1974) Persius and the Programmatic Satire. Cambridge.
Braund, S. and Gold. B. (1998) Vile Bodies: Roman Satire and Corporeal Discourse. Arethusa 31 special issue (including Miller and Reckford articles, below).
Gowers, E. (1994) 'Persius and the decoction of Nero' in J.Elsner and J.Masters (eds.) Reflections of Nero. London, 131-49.
Hooley, D. (1997) The Knotted Thong: Stuctures of Mimesis in Persius. Ann Arbor.
Miller, P.A. (1998) 'The bodily grotesque in Roman satire: images of sterility' Arethusa 31: 257-83
Most, G. (1992) 'The rhetoric of dismemberment in Neronian poetry' in R.Hexter and D.Selden (eds.) Innovations of Antiquity. New York, 391-419.
Reckford, K.J. (1998) 'Reading the sick body: decomposition and morality in Persius' third satire.' Arethusa 31: 337-54
Weiss, S. (2022) 鈥楤odily metaphors and failed resolution in Persius鈥� first satire鈥�, Arethusa 55: 67-94.
Weeks 4-5
Seneca Thyestes
Boyle, A.J. (2017) Seneca Thyestes. Edition with introduction and commentary. Oxford.
Hook, B.S. (2005) 'Oedipus and Thyestes among the philosophers: incest and cannibalism in Plato, Diogenes, and Zeno.' Classical Philology 100.1: 17-40.
Littlewood, C.A.J. (1997) 'Seneca's Thyestes: the tragedy with no women?' Materiali e discussioni per l'analisi dei testi classici 38: 57-86
Littlewood, C.A.J. (2004) Self-representation and Illusion in Senecan Tragedy. Oxford.
Littlewood, C.A.J. (2008) 鈥楪ender and power in Seneca鈥檚 Thyestes鈥� in J.G.Fitch (ed.) Seneca. Oxford Readings in Classical Studies. Oxford, 244-263.
Made, G. (2003) 'Thyestes' belch (Seneca, Thy.911-12' Classical Quarterly 53.2: 634-36
Schiesaro, A. (2003) The Passions in Play. Thyestes and the Dynamics of Senecan Drama. Cambridge.
Shelton, J.-A. (1975) 'Problems of time in Seneca's 'Hercules Furens' and 'Thyestes' ' California Studies in Classical Antiquity 8: 257-69.
Tarrant, R.J. (1985) Seneca Thyestes. Edition with introduction and commentary. Oxford.
Trinacty, C.V. (2014) Senecan Tragedy and the Reception of Augustan Poetry. Oxford.
Weeks 7-8
Seneca Letters
Bartsch.S and Wray. D. (eds.) (2009) Seneca and the Self. Cambridge.
Bartsch, S. and Schiesaro, A. (eds.) (2015) The Cambridge Companion to Seneca. Cambridge.
Costa, C.D.N. (1988) Seneca, 17 Letters, with translation and commentary. Warminster (see commentary on Letters 24 and 47)
Edwards, C. (2002) 鈥楾he suffering body: philosophy and pain in Seneca鈥檚 Letters鈥� in J.I.Porter (ed.) Constructions of the Classical Body, 252-268.
Ker. J (2009) The Deaths of Seneca. Cambridge.
Mann, W.-F. (2006), 鈥淟earning How to Die: Seneca鈥檚 Use of Aeneid 4.653 at Epistulae Morales 12.9鈥� in G.Williams and K.Volk (eds.) Seeing Seneca Whole. Leiden and Boston, 103-122.
Richardson-Hay, C. (2006) First Lessons: Book 1 of Seneca鈥檚 Epistulae Morales. Bern. (Photocopy available)
Weeks 9-10
Statius Achilleid
Barchiesi, A. (2005) 'Masculinity in the 90's: the education of Achilles in Statius and Quintilian' in M.Paschalis (ed) Roman and Greek Imperial Epic. Herakleion, Crete, 47-75.
Bessone, F. (2018) 鈥榁isions of a hero: Optical illusions and multi-focal epic in Statius鈥� Achilleid鈥� Helios 45.2: 169-54.
Feeney, D. (2004) 'Tenui鈥atens discrimine: Spotting the differences in Statius' Achilleid' Materiali e discussioni per l'analisi dei testi classici 52: 85-106.
Heslin, P. (2005) The Transvestite Achilles: Gender and Gender in Statius' Achilleid. Cambridge.
McAuley, M. (2010) 'Ambiguus sexus: epic masculinity in transition in Statius' Achilleid' Akroterion 55: 37-60.
Mendelsohn, D. (1990) 'Empty nest, abandoned cave: maternal anxiety in Achilleid 1' Classical Antiquity 9.2: 295-308.
Rimell, V. (2015) The Closure of Space in Roman Poetics: Empire's Inward Turn. Cambridge, 252-270 ('Watch the mountain shrink: Statius' Achilleid')
Sanna, L. (2008) 'Dust, water and sweat. The Statian puer between charm and weakness, play and war' in Smolenaars, Van Dam and Nauta (eds) The Poetry of Statius. Mnemosyne Suppl.306: 195-214.