Christopher Nappa
Biographic Data
| ID | 1180028 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Christopher Nappa |
| GIVEN NAMES | Christopher |
| FAMILY NAME | Nappa |
| SIGNATURE | NAPPA C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Minnesota |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7239-6468 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 12 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 14 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1994 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Camerius
Making Men Ridiculous
Writing during the reign of emperors Trajan and Hadrian, Juvenal drew on Roman legend and the history of preceding imperial dynasties as a means of scrutinizing cultural upheavals in the Rome of his day. Tacky foreigners, the nouveaux riches, women who don't know their place, bloodthirsty—even crazy—emperors and their (often worse) wives confront the reader at every turn, along with bad poets, corrupt aristocrats, gladiators, whores, false philos…
Chapter Eleven. The Unfortunate Marriage Of Gaius Silius
In the year 48, the emperor Claudius received some shocking news. His wife Messalina had surpassed all her former adulteries by publicly marrying Gaius Silius and publicly announcing her intent to divorce the emperor. This chapter looks principally at two versions of the story, those of Tacitus and Juvenal, and the ways in which they differ. Such a comparison can bring out the way this event proved useful to different authors with different agend…
Power and Eroticism in Imperial Rome by Caroline Vout
206 PHOENIX only one to Tullia: in part, this is due to the important points made by Treggiari about Terentia and her relationship with Cicero. But despite Cicero's undeniable devotion to his daughter, we are not left with a very clear sense of what she was like as a human being. And this, at least in this reviewer's opinion, leads directly to the one major weakness of this book, Treggiari's purposeful reluctance to impose her own guesswork about…
Catullus and Vergil
This chapter contains section titled: Vergil's Catullus
Umarried Dido
Elegy on the Threshold
By including a paraclausithyron intended to mock the topos of the paraclausithyron, Propertius has made poem 1.16 a criticism of elegiac protocols and values. Yet the speaker of this poem, the door of the mistress' house, has its own problems, and the frame of the paraclausithyron not only introduces one putative view of erotic elegy and its value system but also destabilizes the moralizing position imputed to the door. Poem 1.16 undercuts the do…
Callimachus’ Aetia and Aeneas’ Sicily
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Num te leaena
RECENT WORK ON CATULLUS HAS SOUGHT TO EXPAND our critical understanding of his poetry both by drawing on new approaches and also by incorporating more individual poems into the critical picture. In particular, greater concentration on the realia of Roman society and fuller appreciation of the dynamics of Catullan language have allowed us to map out meaningful connections between once neglected and frequently opaque texts and the best known poems …
Cold-Blooded Virgil
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The Goat, the Gout, and the Girl
Catullus 59
Place Settings
Place Settings: Convivium, Contrast, and Persona in Catullus 12 and 13 Christopher Nappa Though apparently nugatory both in their dramatic situation and in their characterization of the speaker and his world, poems 12 and 13 of Catullus actually contain a great deal of information about the values of the poet's persona and the milieu which the author was attempting to create in his work. By examining these parallels and then the crucial differenc…
Agamemnon 717-36
Place Settings
Place Settings: Convivium, Contrast, and Persona in Catullus 12 and 13 Christopher Nappa Though apparently nugatory both in their dramatic situation and in their characterization of the speaker and his world, poems 12 and 13 of Catullus actually contain a great deal of information about the values of the poet's persona and the milieu which the author was attempting to create in his work. By examining these parallels and then the crucial differenc…
Num te leaena
RECENT WORK ON CATULLUS HAS SOUGHT TO EXPAND our critical understanding of his poetry both by drawing on new approaches and also by incorporating more individual poems into the critical picture. In particular, greater concentration on the realia of Roman society and fuller appreciation of the dynamics of Catullan language have allowed us to map out meaningful connections between once neglected and frequently opaque texts and the best known poems …
Cold-Blooded Virgil
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
Umarried Dido
Catullus 59
Agamemnon 717-36
Place Settings
Place Settings: Convivium, Contrast, and Persona in Catullus 12 and 13 Christopher Nappa Though apparently nugatory both in their dramatic situation and in their characterization of the speaker and his world, poems 12 and 13 of Catullus actually contain a great deal of information about the values of the poet's persona and the milieu which the author was attempting to create in his work. By examining these parallels and then the crucial differenc…
The Goat, the Gout, and the Girl
Catullus 59
Cold-Blooded Virgil
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
Num te leaena
RECENT WORK ON CATULLUS HAS SOUGHT TO EXPAND our critical understanding of his poetry both by drawing on new approaches and also by incorporating more individual poems into the critical picture. In particular, greater concentration on the realia of Roman society and fuller appreciation of the dynamics of Catullan language have allowed us to map out meaningful connections between once neglected and frequently opaque texts and the best known poems …
Callimachus’ Aetia and Aeneas’ Sicily
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
Catullus and Vergil
This chapter contains section titled: Vergil's Catullus
Umarried Dido
Elegy on the Threshold
By including a paraclausithyron intended to mock the topos of the paraclausithyron, Propertius has made poem 1.16 a criticism of elegiac protocols and values. Yet the speaker of this poem, the door of the mistress' house, has its own problems, and the frame of the paraclausithyron not only introduces one putative view of erotic elegy and its value system but also destabilizes the moralizing position imputed to the door. Poem 1.16 undercuts the do…
Chapter Eleven. The Unfortunate Marriage Of Gaius Silius
In the year 48, the emperor Claudius received some shocking news. His wife Messalina had surpassed all her former adulteries by publicly marrying Gaius Silius and publicly announcing her intent to divorce the emperor. This chapter looks principally at two versions of the story, those of Tacitus and Juvenal, and the ways in which they differ. Such a comparison can bring out the way this event proved useful to different authors with different agend…
Power and Eroticism in Imperial Rome by Caroline Vout
206 PHOENIX only one to Tullia: in part, this is due to the important points made by Treggiari about Terentia and her relationship with Cicero. But despite Cicero's undeniable devotion to his daughter, we are not left with a very clear sense of what she was like as a human being. And this, at least in this reviewer's opinion, leads directly to the one major weakness of this book, Treggiari's purposeful reluctance to impose her own guesswork about…
Making Men Ridiculous
Writing during the reign of emperors Trajan and Hadrian, Juvenal drew on Roman legend and the history of preceding imperial dynasties as a means of scrutinizing cultural upheavals in the Rome of his day. Tacky foreigners, the nouveaux riches, women who don't know their place, bloodthirsty—even crazy—emperors and their (often worse) wives confront the reader at every turn, along with bad poets, corrupt aristocrats, gladiators, whores, false philos…
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