Michael C J Putnam

Datos Biográficos

ID951055
NOMBREMichael C J Putnam
NOMBRESMichael C J
APELLIDOPutnam
FIRMAPUTNAM M C J
AFILIACIONESJohn Brown University
VERIFICADONo
TOTAL DE OBRAS88
TOTAL DE CITAS290
TOTAL COMO AUTOR86
TOTAL COMO EDITOR2
PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN1960
AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN2022
ÍNDICE H8

  • Redemption of Matter

    Michael C J PutnamARTICLEJournal for the Study of Religion…2022Referencias: 1

    Despite her biographical proximity to figures such as Emerson and Thoreau, the nineteenth-century writer and editor Margaret Fuller is not often considered an environmentalist. Indeed, she is more often remembered for her contributions to political feminism than to environmentalism. I argue that in Fuller’s writing, however, an environmental ethics emerges in conjunction with her questioning of the binary between ‘matter’ and ‘spirit’. In place o…

  • Statius Silvae 2.3

    Michael Putnam, Michael C J PutnamARTICLEIllinois Classical Studies2021

    My essay offers a close reading of poem 3 from the second book of the Silvae of Statius. A genethliacon and, in conclusion, eulogy for the writer's friend Atedius Melior, it directs us to the latter's garden and centers on an expansive aition, of the poet's invention, devoted to the god Pan's attraction for the nymph Pholoe. My primary focus rests on Statius's brilliant word usage and, more generally, on the intellectual background on which he dr…

  • A Labor of Love

    Michael C J PutnamARTICLEIllinois Classical Studies2020

    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 on…

  • Statius Silvae 1.3

    Michael C J PutnamARTICLEIllinois Classical Studies2019Citada por: 1Referencias: 12

    Research Article| April 01 2019 Statius Silvae 1.3: A Stream and Two Villas Michael C. J. Putnam Michael C. J. Putnam Brown University [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Illinois Classical Studies (2019) 44 (1): 66–100. https://doi.org/10.5406/illiclasstud.44.1.0066 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Michael C. J. Putnam; Statius Silvae…

  • The Virgilian Tradition

    Jan M Ziolkowski, Michael C J PutnamBOOKVirgilian Tradition2017

    This indispensable anthology gathers texts and translations that cover major aspects of the Virgilian tradition from the Roman poet’s own lifetime to the year 1500. Unprecedented in scope, the book presents a vast compendium of materials that illuminate how poets, teachers, students, and common folk responded to Virgil and his poetry. The volume offers a brief commentary on each text, many of which are translated into English for the first time. …

  • Horace's "Carmen Saeculare"

    Michael C J PutnamBOOKHorace's Carmen Saeculare2017

    This is the first book devoted to Horace’s Carmen Saeculare, a poem commissioned by Roman emperor Augustus in 17 B.C.E. for choral performance at the Ludi Saeculares , the Secular Games. The poem is the first fully preserved Latin hymn whose circumstances of presentation are known, and it is the only lyric of Horace we can be certain was first presented orally. Michael C. J. Putnam offers a close and sensitive reading of this hymn, shedding new l…

  • Virgil the Homerist

    Michael C J PutnamARTICLEThe Classical World2017

    Virgil the Homerist Michael C. J. Putnam Besides the often-cited work of Bernard Knox and Viktor Pöschl, the scholarly writing and the pedagogical distinction of three people, Reuben Brower, J. P. Elder, and Cedric Whitman, were of paramount importance to me as background for writing The Poetry of the Aeneid. I was privileged to count them also as close friends, as well as continuing mentors, for the remainder of their lives. Brower, teacher of t…

  • Horatius felix

    Michael C J PutnamCHAPTERHope, Joy, and Affection in the…2016

    This chapter examines in detail the second ode of Horace’s fourth book of Carmina in the light of the adjective felix. Both Quintilian and Petronius’s Eumolpus so designate the poet’s work in general. The chapter places the lyric in the context of the ancient genre as a whole and follows its course, watching, in particular, the exemplary appropriateness and exquisite taste that Horace demonstrates in the choice and deployment of words as he struc…

  • Virgil and the Achilles of Catullus

    Michael C J PutnamCHAPTERWordplay and Powerplay in Latin…2016

  • Explicating Catullus

    Open AccessMichael C J PutnamARTICLEDaedalus2016

    At the conclusion of one of Catullus's most famous poems, the speaker describes the bitter finale of his love. His striking analogy draws on the epic past (in Homer's Iliad, a dead warrior is likened to a garden's poppy weighted by rain) and also on a lyric of Sappho, who compares a virgin deflowered on her wedding night to a hyacinth trampled by shepherds. Readers have long appreciated these allusions, but recent feminist scholarship and new app…

  • The Sense of Two Endings

    Michael C J PutnamARTICLEIllinois Classical Studies2016Referencias: 24

    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

  • Dido's Long Dying

    Michael C J PutnamARTICLEDaedalus2014

    MICHAELC. J. PUTNAM, a Fellow of the American Academy since 1996, is the W. Duncan MacMillan II Professor of Classics and Professor of Comparative Literature, Emeritus, at Brown University. His books include The Humanness of Heroes: Studies in the Conclusion of Virgil’s “Aeneid” (2011) and A Companion to Virgil’s “Aeneid” and its Tradition (edited with Joseph Farrell, 2010). He has recently translated Jacopo Sannazaro: The Latin Poetry (2009) and…

  • Petronius Satyrica 89

    Michael C J PutnamARTICLEThe Classical World2013

    In section 89 of Petronius's Satyrica we find our hero Encolpius gazing at a picture of the fall of Troy, completely rapt ( totum in illa haerere tabula ), according to his companion, the poet Eumolpus. Critics have rightly pointed out the similarity with Aeneas at Aeneid 1. 494-95. What seems not to have been noted is the parallelism with "Horace," in Sat. 1.9.2, strolling along the Via Sacra, pondering frivolities, totus in illis . This paper e…

  • The complete poems of Tibullus

    Albius Tibullus, Tibullus Tibullus et al.BOOKComplete Poems of Tibullus2012

    Preface Introduction Julia Haig Gaisser Tibullus: Books 1 and 2 Lygdamus: Corpus Tibullianum 3.1--6 Sulpicia: Corpus Tibullianum 3.13--18 = 4.7--12 Domitius Marsus Epigram Appendix: Ovid Amores 3.9 Notes to the Translations Glossary Select Bibliography Index

  • Vergil, Ovid, and the Poetry of Exile

    Open AccessMichael C J PutnamOTHERA Companion to Vergil's Aeneid…2010

    This chapter contains sections titled: Notes Further Reading

  • Some Virgilian unities

    Open AccessMichael C J PutnamCHAPTERClassical Literary Careers and…2010

    The standard demarcations of the Virgilian career are already present at, or soon after, the poet's death in 19 BC in his epitaph and in the famous lines that purport to introduce the Aeneid . The first may, or may not, be the work of Virgil: Mantua me genuit, Calabri rapuere, tenet nunc Parthenope. Cecini pascua, rura, duces. Mantua begot me, the Calabrians snatched me away, Parthenope now possesses me. I sang of pastureland, the country, leader…

  • Companion to Vergil's Aeneid and Its Tradition

    Joseph Farrell, Michael C J PutnamBOOKCompanion to Vergil's Aeneid and…2010

  • Classical Literary Careers and their Reception

    Open AccessMichael C J Putnam, Stephen Harrison et al.BOOKClassical Literary Careers and…2010

    This is a wide-ranging collection of essays on ancient Roman literary careers and their reception in later European literature, with contributions by leading experts. Starting from the three major Roman models for constructing a literary career - Virgil (the rota Vergiliana), Horace and Ovid - the volume then looks at alternative and counter-models in antiquity: Propertius, Juvenal, Cicero and Pliny. A range of post-antique responses to the ancie…

  • A Companion to Vergil's Aeneid and its Tradition

    Open AccessJoseph Farrell, Michael C J PutnamBOOKCompanion to Vergil's Aeneid and…2010Citada por: 19

  • Virgilian Tradition

    Jan M Ziolkowski, Michael C J PutnamBOOKVirgilian Tradition2008

  • Horace Carm. 4.7 and the Epic Tradition

    Michael C J PutnamARTICLEThe Classical World2007

    The paper examines closely the last four lines (25–28) of Horace Carm. 4.7. Initial discussion centers on the connection between Horace's stanza and the simile at Aeneid 11.492–497 as well as on the latter's sources in Ennius and Homer. The paper turns to the irony in Horace's nomenclature—we find, for instance a Hippolytus who is confined rather than serving as a releaser—and then to the differences between Horace's treatment of Aeneas, Theseus,…

  • Poetic Interplay

    Michael C J PutnamBOOKPoetic Interplay2006Citada por: 2

    The lives of Catullus and Horace overlap by a dozen years in the first century BC. Yet, though they are the undisputed masters of the lyric voice in Roman poetry, Horace directly mentions his great predecessor, Catullus, only once, and this reference has often been taken as mocking. In fact, Horace's allusion, far from disparaging Catullus, pays him a discreet compliment by suggesting the challenge that his accomplishment presented to his success…

  • Horace to Torquatus

    Michael C J PutnamARTICLEThe American Journal of Philology2006Citada por: 2Referencias: 4

    This article documents and explores the relationship between Horace Epist. 1.5 and Ode 4.7, one a verse epistle, the other one of Horace's most magnificent odes, both addressed to a certain Torquatus. It first analyzes each poem individually in detail and then goes on to examine the overlap between the two in search of Horace's purposes behind the interaction. The epistle, an invitation to a convivium at the speaker's home on the evening before A…

  • Virgil and Tibullus 1.1

    Michael C J PutnamARTICLEClassical Philology2005Citada por: 19Referencias: 13

  • "Two Ways of Looking at the "Aeneid

    Michael C J PutnamARTICLEThe Classical World2003