Patricia A Rosenmeyer
Biographic Data
| ID | 1108393 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Patricia A Rosenmeyer |
| GIVEN NAMES | Patricia A |
| FAMILY NAME | Rosenmeyer |
| SIGNATURE | ROSENMEYER P A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Yale University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 29 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 14 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1991 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
The Language of Ruins
A colossal statue, originally built to honor an ancient pharaoh, still stands in Egyptian Thebes. Damaged by an earthquake, and re-identified as the Homeric hero Memnon, it was believed to “speak” regularly at daybreak. By the middle of the first century CE, the colossus had become a popular site for sacred tourism; visitors flocked to hear the miraculous sound, leaving behind over one hundred Greek and Latin inscriptions. The inscribed names rev…
(In-)Versions of Pygmalion
Sapphic Memnon
Chapter 5 concentrates on four epigrams by Julia Balbilla, comprising fifty-four lines of Greek elegiac verse—the largest corpus on the colossus by any single author. While most visitors chose to model their language on Homer’s, Balbilla’s style and Aeolic dialect are unmistakably Sapphic (although her elegiac meter is borrowed from epigram rather than lyric). This chapter assesses what it means for Julia Balbilla to imitate Sappho while at the s…
Ancient Greek Letter Writing
Reviewed by: Ancient Greek Letter Writing: A Cultural History (600 BC–150 BC) by Paola Ceccarelli Patricia Rosenmeyer Paola Ceccarelli. Ancient Greek Letter Writing: A Cultural History (600 BC–150 BC). Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013. Pp. xx, 435. $185.00. ISBN 978–0-19–967559–3. This book is an erudite and wide-ranging study not only of letters, but also of writing in general in Greek antiquity. Stressing sociocultural contexts as well as …
Ancient Greek Literary Letters
The first referenece to letter writing occurs in the first text of western literature, Homer's Iliad. From the very beginning, Greeks were enthusiastic letter writers, and letter writing became a distinct literary genre. Letters were included in the works of historians but they also formed the basis of works of fiction, and the formal substructure for many kinds of poem. Patricia Rosenmeyer, an authority on the history of the Greek letter, assemb…
A Greek inscription on the Memnon Colossus
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A Greek inscription on the Memnon Colossus
Girls at Play in Early Greek Poetry
This paper explores the complex meanings of paizein and its compound sumpaizein used in connection with young girls and/or Eros in archaic Greek poetry. My basic question is whether the verb necessarily implies a knowing eroticism on the part of the character whom it describes, or whether it is the poet's way of inviting the audience to share his knowledge at the expense of the character, a kind of "wink" of complicity. I argue that there are fun…
CHAPTER THIRTEEN. (In-)Versions of Pygmalion
Ovid's Heroides and Tristia
exulis haec uox est: praebet mihi littera linguam, et si non liceat scribere, rautus ero. Epist. ex Pont. 2.6.3f. This is the exile's voice; the written word gives me a tongue, and if writing is forbidden, I shall be dumb. Ovid's exilic persona reveals itself over the course of his correspondence as a literary pastiche of other texts and identities. We hear the narrator's voice in the Tristia and Epistulae ex Ponto echoing that of Horace and Prop…
Enacting the Law
This paper explores the dramatic context of references to divorce in three Plautine comedies: the Amphitruo, Casina, and Trinummus. I will suggest that for Plautus, the mimetic construct of the stage alone was not enough of a barrier to disrupt or cancel the legal implications of the divorce formula, a phrase which actually enacted the law at the moment of its utterance. Although my argument necessarily entails a consideration of the legal and so…
The Poetics of Imitation
A Cold Reception in Callimachus' Victoria Berenices (S.H. 257–265)
Callimachus' Victoria Berenices has received a good deal of scholarly attention since its first publication in 1976, both from textual critics, attempting to clarify uncertain readings, and from specialists in Latin poetry, eager to trace allusions to Callimachus in Vergil, Statius, or Ovid. While the search for Callimachean influence on the later texts has proved quite fruitful, it opens up the possibility of reading certain issues inappropriate…
The Unexpected Guests
Much of the fascination that Petronius' Satyricon holds for its readers originates in the work's gleeful violation of traditional categories of classical genres. Critical terminology makes explicit the issue of unconventionality, as it is reduced to the neutral word ‘work’ in describing the Satyricon , which, as far as we can tell, belongs to no single category (e.g. novel, romance, satire), but appropriates elements from many sources in both poe…
Girls at Play in Early Greek Poetry
This paper explores the complex meanings of paizein and its compound sumpaizein used in connection with young girls and/or Eros in archaic Greek poetry. My basic question is whether the verb necessarily implies a knowing eroticism on the part of the character whom it describes, or whether it is the poet's way of inviting the audience to share his knowledge at the expense of the character, a kind of "wink" of complicity. I argue that there are fun…
Enacting the Law
This paper explores the dramatic context of references to divorce in three Plautine comedies: the Amphitruo, Casina, and Trinummus. I will suggest that for Plautus, the mimetic construct of the stage alone was not enough of a barrier to disrupt or cancel the legal implications of the divorce formula, a phrase which actually enacted the law at the moment of its utterance. Although my argument necessarily entails a consideration of the legal and so…
Ovid's Heroides and Tristia
exulis haec uox est: praebet mihi littera linguam, et si non liceat scribere, rautus ero. Epist. ex Pont. 2.6.3f. This is the exile's voice; the written word gives me a tongue, and if writing is forbidden, I shall be dumb. Ovid's exilic persona reveals itself over the course of his correspondence as a literary pastiche of other texts and identities. We hear the narrator's voice in the Tristia and Epistulae ex Ponto echoing that of Horace and Prop…
Ancient Greek Literary Letters
The first referenece to letter writing occurs in the first text of western literature, Homer's Iliad. From the very beginning, Greeks were enthusiastic letter writers, and letter writing became a distinct literary genre. Letters were included in the works of historians but they also formed the basis of works of fiction, and the formal substructure for many kinds of poem. Patricia Rosenmeyer, an authority on the history of the Greek letter, assemb…
The Unexpected Guests
Much of the fascination that Petronius' Satyricon holds for its readers originates in the work's gleeful violation of traditional categories of classical genres. Critical terminology makes explicit the issue of unconventionality, as it is reduced to the neutral word ‘work’ in describing the Satyricon , which, as far as we can tell, belongs to no single category (e.g. novel, romance, satire), but appropriates elements from many sources in both poe…
The Unexpected Guests
Much of the fascination that Petronius' Satyricon holds for its readers originates in the work's gleeful violation of traditional categories of classical genres. Critical terminology makes explicit the issue of unconventionality, as it is reduced to the neutral word ‘work’ in describing the Satyricon , which, as far as we can tell, belongs to no single category (e.g. novel, romance, satire), but appropriates elements from many sources in both poe…
The Poetics of Imitation
A Cold Reception in Callimachus' Victoria Berenices (S.H. 257–265)
Callimachus' Victoria Berenices has received a good deal of scholarly attention since its first publication in 1976, both from textual critics, attempting to clarify uncertain readings, and from specialists in Latin poetry, eager to trace allusions to Callimachus in Vergil, Statius, or Ovid. While the search for Callimachean influence on the later texts has proved quite fruitful, it opens up the possibility of reading certain issues inappropriate…
Enacting the Law
This paper explores the dramatic context of references to divorce in three Plautine comedies: the Amphitruo, Casina, and Trinummus. I will suggest that for Plautus, the mimetic construct of the stage alone was not enough of a barrier to disrupt or cancel the legal implications of the divorce formula, a phrase which actually enacted the law at the moment of its utterance. Although my argument necessarily entails a consideration of the legal and so…
Ovid's Heroides and Tristia
exulis haec uox est: praebet mihi littera linguam, et si non liceat scribere, rautus ero. Epist. ex Pont. 2.6.3f. This is the exile's voice; the written word gives me a tongue, and if writing is forbidden, I shall be dumb. Ovid's exilic persona reveals itself over the course of his correspondence as a literary pastiche of other texts and identities. We hear the narrator's voice in the Tristia and Epistulae ex Ponto echoing that of Horace and Prop…
CHAPTER THIRTEEN. (In-)Versions of Pygmalion
A Greek inscription on the Memnon Colossus
An abstract 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
A Greek inscription on the Memnon Colossus
Girls at Play in Early Greek Poetry
This paper explores the complex meanings of paizein and its compound sumpaizein used in connection with young girls and/or Eros in archaic Greek poetry. My basic question is whether the verb necessarily implies a knowing eroticism on the part of the character whom it describes, or whether it is the poet's way of inviting the audience to share his knowledge at the expense of the character, a kind of "wink" of complicity. I argue that there are fun…
Ancient Greek Literary Letters
The first referenece to letter writing occurs in the first text of western literature, Homer's Iliad. From the very beginning, Greeks were enthusiastic letter writers, and letter writing became a distinct literary genre. Letters were included in the works of historians but they also formed the basis of works of fiction, and the formal substructure for many kinds of poem. Patricia Rosenmeyer, an authority on the history of the Greek letter, assemb…
Ancient Greek Letter Writing
Reviewed by: Ancient Greek Letter Writing: A Cultural History (600 BC–150 BC) by Paola Ceccarelli Patricia Rosenmeyer Paola Ceccarelli. Ancient Greek Letter Writing: A Cultural History (600 BC–150 BC). Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013. Pp. xx, 435. $185.00. ISBN 978–0-19–967559–3. This book is an erudite and wide-ranging study not only of letters, but also of writing in general in Greek antiquity. Stressing sociocultural contexts as well as …
The Language of Ruins
A colossal statue, originally built to honor an ancient pharaoh, still stands in Egyptian Thebes. Damaged by an earthquake, and re-identified as the Homeric hero Memnon, it was believed to “speak” regularly at daybreak. By the middle of the first century CE, the colossus had become a popular site for sacred tourism; visitors flocked to hear the miraculous sound, leaving behind over one hundred Greek and Latin inscriptions. The inscribed names rev…
(In-)Versions of Pygmalion
Sapphic Memnon
Chapter 5 concentrates on four epigrams by Julia Balbilla, comprising fifty-four lines of Greek elegiac verse—the largest corpus on the colossus by any single author. While most visitors chose to model their language on Homer’s, Balbilla’s style and Aeolic dialect are unmistakably Sapphic (although her elegiac meter is borrowed from epigram rather than lyric). This chapter assesses what it means for Julia Balbilla to imitate Sappho while at the s…
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