Catherine Connors
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 3874873 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Catherine Connors |
| NOMBRES | Catherine |
| APELLIDO | Connors |
| FIRMA | CONNORS C |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Washington |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 13 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 12 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 13 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1991 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 2 |
Como seria uma perspectiva feminista de Proba
Proba's cento reusing Vergilian verses to retell Biblical narratives has met with both appreciation and disdain in the centuries since it was composed. This paper considers recent scholarly analyses of Proba's work alongside feminist approaches to Virgil, especially those set out in the 2021 special issue of the journal Vergilius on "Vergil and the Feminine," edited by Elena Giusti and Victoria Rimell, and asks what feminist criticism, with its e…
A Feminist Abolitionist reads Plutarch, Euripides, and Plato
In writing her 1836 novel Philothea, the abolitionist Lydia Maria Child drew on careful reading of Plutarch’s Life of Pericles, Euripides’ Ion, and Plato’s Republic. The novel’s plot, organized around Pericles’ law that both parents must be Athenian citizens for their child to have citizenship, shares features with arguments for the abolition of slavery and for women’s rights that Child made in other writings throughout her lifetime. Child combin…
A river runs through it
This chapter proposes that Strabo's geographical narrative also has what might be termed a "potamological" mode that can engage with the distinctive ways that rivers shape and constrain experiences. It offers a tour of some river narratives in Strabo: Homer's river of Oceanos, the Baetis, the Rhone, the Tiber, the Po, the Euphrates, and the Nile. As Campbell demonstrates, river courses, watersheds, and deltas were major organizing features of anc…
In the Land of the Giants
Even before the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 CE, some remarked on the area’s resemblance to the known dangers of Sicily’s Mount Etna. This awareness was expressed in observational accounts of Vesuvius’ geology and in mythical stories that linked Vesuvius and the Phlegraean Fields with battles by Jove or Hercules against the giants. This article explores the ways in which observational and mythical accounts of Vesuvius and the Phlegraean field…
A Companion to Persius and Juvenal by Susanna Braund and Josiah Osgood
BOOK REVIEWS/COMPTES RENDUS 407 Chapter Four, “Virtus and Voluptas,” explores the opposition between virtue and pleasure posited by Roman critics of Epicureanism. Its main theme is that virtus does not mean merely generic “virtue.” Instead, virtus is linked, both etymologically and conceptually , to manliness. Gordon cites many passages in Cicero that associate virtus with the endurance of pain for the sake of a man’s country and his people, and,…
Politics and spectacles
The surviving Greek and Latin novels depict a world of cities, but mostly keep Rome itself out of sight. The racy Latin novels by Petronius and Apuleius (and his Greek source) are set in the imperial present, but make few direct remarks about Rome and its emperors. The (more-or-less) chaste, idealising and nostalgic Greek novels by Chariton, Longus, Achilles Tatius and Heliodorus are mostly set in vaguely classical times, when Greek cities were s…
Epic allusion in Roman satire
One of the things Lucilius, Horace, Persius, and Juvenal have in common is their pleasure in a nice bit of epic furniture about the place. It is easy enough to install, since epic and satire both use the dactylic hexameter. It is fun to hear Horace describe the city mouse and the country mouse going to Rome in the kind of night that falls in Roman epic (Horace, Sermones 2.6.98-101). It is amusing to see a decadent Roman aristocrat as a “boy Autom…
The Cambridge Companion to Roman Satire
Satire as a distinct genre of writing was first developed by the Romans in the second century BCE. Regarded by them as uniquely 'their own', satire held a special place in the Roman imagination as the one genre that could address the problems of city life from the perspective of a 'real Roman'. In this Cambridge Companion an international team of scholars provides a stimulating introduction to Roman satire's core practitioners and practices, plac…
Petronius the Poet
The Forensic Stage
Petronius the Poet
The ancient novel, previously relegated to the margins of literary study, has recently taken its place at centre stage. Petronius' Satyricon, the oldest surviving work of prose fiction, is in many respects an arrestingly modern ancient novel but the inclusion within it of thirty short poems and two long ones introduces an alien feature in need of investigation. In this study, Catherine Connors draws on developments in Latin literary criticism to …
Scents and sensibility in Plautus′ Casina
When Lysidamus arrives on stage in Plautus′ Casina, he delightedly announces that he is in love with the slave girl Casina. He is returning, he says, from an expedition to buy perfume which he hopes has made him appealing to his beloved. Casina′s name is derived from the fragrant spice casia. Cassia and the related spice cinnamon originate in the Far East and were imported to Rome through Arabia or Africa.Like other ancient spices, cassia was use…
Simultaneous Hunting and Herding at Ciris 297–300
Poetic incompetence is often blamed for infelicities or incongruities which appear in the poems collected in the Appendix Vergiliana , and in many cases such censure is justified. However, in the passage which is the subject of this note, Ciris 297–300, it is possible to reinterpret the incongruity which critics have remarked: when the pertinent evidence from antiquity is adduced, the lines are revealed as a display of scientific and etymological…
In the Land of the Giants
Even before the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 CE, some remarked on the area’s resemblance to the known dangers of Sicily’s Mount Etna. This awareness was expressed in observational accounts of Vesuvius’ geology and in mythical stories that linked Vesuvius and the Phlegraean Fields with battles by Jove or Hercules against the giants. This article explores the ways in which observational and mythical accounts of Vesuvius and the Phlegraean field…
Petronius the Poet
Scents and sensibility in Plautus′ Casina
When Lysidamus arrives on stage in Plautus′ Casina, he delightedly announces that he is in love with the slave girl Casina. He is returning, he says, from an expedition to buy perfume which he hopes has made him appealing to his beloved. Casina′s name is derived from the fragrant spice casia. Cassia and the related spice cinnamon originate in the Far East and were imported to Rome through Arabia or Africa.Like other ancient spices, cassia was use…
Simultaneous Hunting and Herding at Ciris 297–300
Poetic incompetence is often blamed for infelicities or incongruities which appear in the poems collected in the Appendix Vergiliana , and in many cases such censure is justified. However, in the passage which is the subject of this note, Ciris 297–300, it is possible to reinterpret the incongruity which critics have remarked: when the pertinent evidence from antiquity is adduced, the lines are revealed as a display of scientific and etymological…
Scents and sensibility in Plautus′ Casina
When Lysidamus arrives on stage in Plautus′ Casina, he delightedly announces that he is in love with the slave girl Casina. He is returning, he says, from an expedition to buy perfume which he hopes has made him appealing to his beloved. Casina′s name is derived from the fragrant spice casia. Cassia and the related spice cinnamon originate in the Far East and were imported to Rome through Arabia or Africa.Like other ancient spices, cassia was use…
Petronius the Poet
The ancient novel, previously relegated to the margins of literary study, has recently taken its place at centre stage. Petronius' Satyricon, the oldest surviving work of prose fiction, is in many respects an arrestingly modern ancient novel but the inclusion within it of thirty short poems and two long ones introduces an alien feature in need of investigation. In this study, Catherine Connors draws on developments in Latin literary criticism to …
Petronius the Poet
The Forensic Stage
Epic allusion in Roman satire
One of the things Lucilius, Horace, Persius, and Juvenal have in common is their pleasure in a nice bit of epic furniture about the place. It is easy enough to install, since epic and satire both use the dactylic hexameter. It is fun to hear Horace describe the city mouse and the country mouse going to Rome in the kind of night that falls in Roman epic (Horace, Sermones 2.6.98-101). It is amusing to see a decadent Roman aristocrat as a “boy Autom…
The Cambridge Companion to Roman Satire
Satire as a distinct genre of writing was first developed by the Romans in the second century BCE. Regarded by them as uniquely 'their own', satire held a special place in the Roman imagination as the one genre that could address the problems of city life from the perspective of a 'real Roman'. In this Cambridge Companion an international team of scholars provides a stimulating introduction to Roman satire's core practitioners and practices, plac…
Politics and spectacles
The surviving Greek and Latin novels depict a world of cities, but mostly keep Rome itself out of sight. The racy Latin novels by Petronius and Apuleius (and his Greek source) are set in the imperial present, but make few direct remarks about Rome and its emperors. The (more-or-less) chaste, idealising and nostalgic Greek novels by Chariton, Longus, Achilles Tatius and Heliodorus are mostly set in vaguely classical times, when Greek cities were s…
A Companion to Persius and Juvenal by Susanna Braund and Josiah Osgood
BOOK REVIEWS/COMPTES RENDUS 407 Chapter Four, “Virtus and Voluptas,” explores the opposition between virtue and pleasure posited by Roman critics of Epicureanism. Its main theme is that virtus does not mean merely generic “virtue.” Instead, virtus is linked, both etymologically and conceptually , to manliness. Gordon cites many passages in Cicero that associate virtus with the endurance of pain for the sake of a man’s country and his people, and,…
In the Land of the Giants
Even before the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 CE, some remarked on the area’s resemblance to the known dangers of Sicily’s Mount Etna. This awareness was expressed in observational accounts of Vesuvius’ geology and in mythical stories that linked Vesuvius and the Phlegraean Fields with battles by Jove or Hercules against the giants. This article explores the ways in which observational and mythical accounts of Vesuvius and the Phlegraean field…
A river runs through it
This chapter proposes that Strabo's geographical narrative also has what might be termed a "potamological" mode that can engage with the distinctive ways that rivers shape and constrain experiences. It offers a tour of some river narratives in Strabo: Homer's river of Oceanos, the Baetis, the Rhone, the Tiber, the Po, the Euphrates, and the Nile. As Campbell demonstrates, river courses, watersheds, and deltas were major organizing features of anc…
A Feminist Abolitionist reads Plutarch, Euripides, and Plato
In writing her 1836 novel Philothea, the abolitionist Lydia Maria Child drew on careful reading of Plutarch’s Life of Pericles, Euripides’ Ion, and Plato’s Republic. The novel’s plot, organized around Pericles’ law that both parents must be Athenian citizens for their child to have citizenship, shares features with arguments for the abolition of slavery and for women’s rights that Child made in other writings throughout her lifetime. Child combin…
Como seria uma perspectiva feminista de Proba
Proba's cento reusing Vergilian verses to retell Biblical narratives has met with both appreciation and disdain in the centuries since it was composed. This paper considers recent scholarly analyses of Proba's work alongside feminist approaches to Virgil, especially those set out in the 2021 special issue of the journal Vergilius on "Vergil and the Feminine," edited by Elena Giusti and Victoria Rimell, and asks what feminist criticism, with its e…
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