Nandini B Pandey
Biographic Data
| ID | 1072220 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Nandini B Pandey |
| GIVEN NAMES | Nandini B |
| FAMILY NAME | Pandey |
| SIGNATURE | PANDEY N B |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Wisconsin–Madison |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1133-5757 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 28 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 10 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Antiquity Beyond Borders
Publica numina
Ovid’s Epistulae ex Ponto 2.8 commemorates the exiled poet’s receipt of a gift of silver images of the Caesars from Rome. This paper argues, with reference to Augustan coinage and Marx’s theory of commodity fetishism, that the poem deconstructs Romans’ self-subjugation to imperial iconography and highlights their role in vesting it with power. Through comic deployment of the pathetic fallacy via a naïve narrative persona, Ovid shows how, from a p…
Shovels Out
Review of: T.P. Wiseman, The House of Augustus: A Historical Detective Story . This engaging and accessible book conclusively puts to rest the longstanding misidentification of grand ruins on Rome’s Palatine Hill as the ‘House of Augustus’. Wiseman defends the view that Augustus’ buildings on the Palatine carefully differentiated between private modesty and public munificence while aligning the princeps with Romulus through their various imprints…
The Cultural History of Augustan Rome
Reviewed by: The Cultural History of Augustan Rome: Texts, Monuments, and Topography ed. by Matthew P. Loar et al. Nandini B. Pandey Matthew P. Loar, Sarah C. Murray and Stefano Rebeggiani (eds.). The Cultural History of Augustan Rome: Texts, Monuments, and Topography. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019. Pp. xiv, 192. $99.99. ISBN 978-1-108-48060-4. Publishers are invited to submit new books to be reviewed to Professor Michael Arnush, 53…
Ovid, the Res Publica, and the ‘Imperial Presidency
How did Romans perceive the changing relationships among leaders, the people, and the public sphere as their commonwealth (res publica) fell under the control of an emperor? This paper examines Ovid’s uses of the Latin adjective publicus, ‘public, common, open’, to explore strands of implicitly ‘republican’ political thought behind his poetic corpus. Ovid first celebrates Augustus’ material benefactions as common goods for private consumption; th…
Augustus as Visionary
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Blood beneath the Laurels
The Poetics of Power in Augustan Rome
Augustus' success in implementing monarchical rule at Rome is often attributed to innovations in the symbolic language of power, from the star marking Julius Caesar's deification to buildings like the Palatine complex and the Forum Augustum to rituals including triumphs and funerals
Caput mundi
This paper suggests some far-reaching symbolic implications for women's hair in Latin love elegy. Hairdressing, hairdressers and hair loss provided a metaphorical vehicle by which Tibullus (1.8), Propertius (2.18), and above all Ovid (Ars Amatoria 3; Amores 1.11–12, 2.7–8, 1.7, and 1.14) interrogate the power relationships that underpin Roman society: between master and slave, women and men, Rome and her provinces. In my analysis, elegiac hair be…
Sowing the Seeds of War
Long before the Harvard School, the earliest audiences of Vergil's Aeneid were conditioned to hear "two voices" in the epic. Vergil's Eclogues had already illustrated and evoked dialogic interpretations; the epic's ekphrases, including the Trojan War frieze at Carthage, show the subjective nature of all aesthetic response; and the ancient vita tradition framed the text of the Aeneid, like Pallas' baldric, as an object of political contestation. I…
Sowing the Seeds of War
Long before the Harvard School, the earliest audiences of Vergil's Aeneid were conditioned to hear "two voices" in the epic. Vergil's Eclogues had already illustrated and evoked dialogic interpretations; the epic's ekphrases, including the Trojan War frieze at Carthage, show the subjective nature of all aesthetic response; and the ancient vita tradition framed the text of the Aeneid, like Pallas' baldric, as an object of political contestation. I…
The Poetics of Power in Augustan Rome
Augustus' success in implementing monarchical rule at Rome is often attributed to innovations in the symbolic language of power, from the star marking Julius Caesar's deification to buildings like the Palatine complex and the Forum Augustum to rituals including triumphs and funerals
Caput mundi
This paper suggests some far-reaching symbolic implications for women's hair in Latin love elegy. Hairdressing, hairdressers and hair loss provided a metaphorical vehicle by which Tibullus (1.8), Propertius (2.18), and above all Ovid (Ars Amatoria 3; Amores 1.11–12, 2.7–8, 1.7, and 1.14) interrogate the power relationships that underpin Roman society: between master and slave, women and men, Rome and her provinces. In my analysis, elegiac hair be…
Blood beneath the Laurels
Caput mundi
This paper suggests some far-reaching symbolic implications for women's hair in Latin love elegy. Hairdressing, hairdressers and hair loss provided a metaphorical vehicle by which Tibullus (1.8), Propertius (2.18), and above all Ovid (Ars Amatoria 3; Amores 1.11–12, 2.7–8, 1.7, and 1.14) interrogate the power relationships that underpin Roman society: between master and slave, women and men, Rome and her provinces. In my analysis, elegiac hair be…
Sowing the Seeds of War
Long before the Harvard School, the earliest audiences of Vergil's Aeneid were conditioned to hear "two voices" in the epic. Vergil's Eclogues had already illustrated and evoked dialogic interpretations; the epic's ekphrases, including the Trojan War frieze at Carthage, show the subjective nature of all aesthetic response; and the ancient vita tradition framed the text of the Aeneid, like Pallas' baldric, as an object of political contestation. I…
Augustus as Visionary
A summary is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content.
Blood beneath the Laurels
The Poetics of Power in Augustan Rome
Augustus' success in implementing monarchical rule at Rome is often attributed to innovations in the symbolic language of power, from the star marking Julius Caesar's deification to buildings like the Palatine complex and the Forum Augustum to rituals including triumphs and funerals
Publica numina
Ovid’s Epistulae ex Ponto 2.8 commemorates the exiled poet’s receipt of a gift of silver images of the Caesars from Rome. This paper argues, with reference to Augustan coinage and Marx’s theory of commodity fetishism, that the poem deconstructs Romans’ self-subjugation to imperial iconography and highlights their role in vesting it with power. Through comic deployment of the pathetic fallacy via a naïve narrative persona, Ovid shows how, from a p…
Shovels Out
Review of: T.P. Wiseman, The House of Augustus: A Historical Detective Story . This engaging and accessible book conclusively puts to rest the longstanding misidentification of grand ruins on Rome’s Palatine Hill as the ‘House of Augustus’. Wiseman defends the view that Augustus’ buildings on the Palatine carefully differentiated between private modesty and public munificence while aligning the princeps with Romulus through their various imprints…
The Cultural History of Augustan Rome
Reviewed by: The Cultural History of Augustan Rome: Texts, Monuments, and Topography ed. by Matthew P. Loar et al. Nandini B. Pandey Matthew P. Loar, Sarah C. Murray and Stefano Rebeggiani (eds.). The Cultural History of Augustan Rome: Texts, Monuments, and Topography. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019. Pp. xiv, 192. $99.99. ISBN 978-1-108-48060-4. Publishers are invited to submit new books to be reviewed to Professor Michael Arnush, 53…
Ovid, the Res Publica, and the ‘Imperial Presidency
How did Romans perceive the changing relationships among leaders, the people, and the public sphere as their commonwealth (res publica) fell under the control of an emperor? This paper examines Ovid’s uses of the Latin adjective publicus, ‘public, common, open’, to explore strands of implicitly ‘republican’ political thought behind his poetic corpus. Ovid first celebrates Augustus’ material benefactions as common goods for private consumption; th…
Antiquity Beyond Borders
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