T H M Gellar-Goad
Biographic Data
| ID | 1216869 |
|---|---|
| NAME | T H M Gellar-Goad |
| GIVEN NAMES | T H M |
| FAMILY NAME | Gellar-Goad |
| SIGNATURE | GELLAR-GOAD T H M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Wake Forest University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8266-465X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 22 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Scilicet et non est lignis tamen insitus ignis
Epicurus in Rome
The role of Greek thought in the final days of the Roman republic is a topic that has garnered much attention in recent years. This volume of essays, commissioned specially from a distinguished international group of scholars, explores the role and influence of Greek philosophy, specifically Epicureanism, in the late republic. It focuses primarily (although not exclusively) on the works and views of Cicero, premier politician and Roman philosophe…
Sus and Mus in Lucretius ( De rerum natura 5.25), Vergil ( Georgics 1.181), and Horace ( Ars poetica 139)
This note argues that the Lucretian hexameter-final monosyllable Arcadius sus (5.25) stands at the beginning of a Roman hexameter tradition of satiric final-monosyllable animals, echoed by Vergil’s exiguus mus at Georgics 1.181 and Horace’s ridiculus mus at Ars poetica 139. Lucretius’ sus, in context, deflates and deglamorizes the boarish Labor of Hercules; Vergil’s mus makes the satiric subtext explicit, and playfully suggests that pest control …
Didactic Literature in the Roman World
Plautus
This new volume in the Bloomsbury Ancient Comedy Companions series is perfect for students coming to one of Plautus’ most whimsical, provocative, and influential plays for the first time, and a useful first point of reference for scholars less familiar with Roman comedy. Menaechmi is a tale of identical twin brothers who are separated as young children and reconnect as adults following a series of misadventures due to mistaken identity. A glutton…
Epicurus in Rome
The role of Greek thought in the final days of the Roman republic is a topic that has garnered much attention in recent years. This volume of essays, commissioned specially from a distinguished international group of scholars, explores the role and influence of Greek philosophy, specifically Epicureanism, in the late republic. It focuses primarily (although not exclusively) on the works and views of Cicero, premier politician and Roman philosophe…
Plautus
Plautus’ Mostellaria is one of ancient Rome’s most breezy and amusing comedies. The plot is ridiculously simple: when a father returns home after three years abroad, a clever slave named Tranio devises deceptions to conceal that the son has squandered a fortune partying with pals and purchasing his prized prostitute’s freedom. Tranio convinces the gullible father that his house is haunted, that his son has purchased the neighbor’s house, and that…
Assplay in Asinaria
This note argues that repeated uses of onus ‘burden’ in Plaut. Asin . 591–745 pun on Greek ὄνος ‘ass’ and, in so doing, activate a network of other puns and hints at the play's title, asses (the animal), and both homoerotic and anal sex
Andria Moi Ennepe
This note argues for a previously unnoticed allusion in Terence's Andria to Odysseus and the Sirens, in a wish expressed by the play's old man that his son will escape the alluring clutches of the sex-labourer next door
Plautus
This is the first book-length study of Plautus’ shortest surviving comedy, Curculio, a play in which the tricksy brown-nosed title character (“The Weevil”) bamboozles a shady banker and a pious pimp to secure the freedom of the enslaved girl his patron has fallen for while keeping her out of the clutches of a megalomaniacal soldier. It all takes place in the Greek city Epidaurus, the most important site for the worship of the healing god Aesculap…
The Lexicon of Profit and Commerce in Ovid's Ars Amatoria and Other Works
This paper studies the vocabulary of advantage, exchange, and loss in Ovid's Ars Amatoria, which stands apart from the rest of the Ovidian corpus (and from the rest of Roman erotic elegy) in its special, systematic handling of these words. Philological analysis of utor and related terms shows that the praeceptor amoris of Ars, importing language of commerce and profit into his teaching, contradicts his supposed intent of creating durable romantic…
Laughing Atoms, Laughing Matter
Laughing Atoms, Laughing Matter: Lucretius' De Rerum Natura and Satire offers the first comprehensive examination of Roman epic poet Lucretius' engagement with satire. Author T. H. M. Gellar-Goad argues that what has often been understood as an artfully persuasive exposition of Epicurean philosophy designed to convert the uninitiated is actually a mimesis of the narrator's attempt to effect such a conversion on his internal narrative audience—a p…
Antestari
Grattius. Hunting an Augustan Poet. Edited, with Text, Translation, Introduction, and Appendix, by Steven J. Green
Urine, Sex, and Watchmen
Therapontigonus Was on Stage the Whole Time
Approaches to Lucretius
BOOK REVIEWS/COMPTES RENDUS 163 reader of Latin poetry with some interesting things to say about these fragments. This chapter should stir up productive debate. Poetry and History is the third collection of essays on the Annales to have appeared in the last fifteen years.6 How does it compare? Next to the others, this volume is a touch unwieldy, and perhaps less deserving of a cover-to-cover read. On the other hand, the general quality of its ind…
Pop Music and Graeco-Roman Erotic Verse
This paper discusses shared thematic ground between ancient erotic verse and modern Anglo-American popular music, and presents a “pop topos” assignment that asks students to illustrate ancient erotic topoi with modern popular music of their choosing, an activity the author has used successfully in an advanced Latin reading course on Roman elegy. By bringing familiar modern cultural artifacts into discourse with social and literary issues in ancie…
Lucretius' Personified Natura Rerum, Satire, and Ennius' Saturae
The personified Natura Rerum in Lucretius 3 is a satirist. Her speeches contain the hallmarks of satire, she anticipates guest satirists in later satura, and the personification alludes to a lost passage of Ennius' Saturae. She grants authority and satiric bite to the narrator's refutation of the fear of death
World of Wordcraft
This article outlines an innovative approach to the instruction of foreign languages: a term-long role-playing game in the style of tabletop role-playing games such as Dungeons & Dragons. Students adopt personas, avatars, or “player characters” and take them through adventures, exploration, puzzles, and fights with monsters, all of which are tied to specific language-acquisition exercises and practice. I detail at length my specific implementatio…
Lucretius
184 PHOENIX of tricks” (351)—and in Terence’s Adelphoe, a masterpiece of musical minimalism. Terence communicates much through subtle contrasts between iambic octonarii, sung by young lovers and their allies, and trochaics, sung by characters opposed to them. This play, however, also includes a rather un-Terentian lover’s monody, whose polymetric lyrics are dominated by aeolics. It may be, as Moore wonders in Chapter Five, that the aeolic rhythm …
The Servvs Callidvs and Ritual Imagery in Plautus’ Epidicvs
Plautus marks, the title character of Epidicus as a special, over-the-top instance of the seruus callidus stock type by associating him throughout the play with various religious roles of increasing importance. Through claims made by both the character himself and others, Epidicus is progressively figured as sacrificial victim, sacrificer, embalmer, auspex, Agamemnon, and son of Vulcan. This “program of sacralization” is original to Plautus and u…
Didactic Literature in the Roman World
Assplay in Asinaria
This note argues that repeated uses of onus ‘burden’ in Plaut. Asin . 591–745 pun on Greek ὄνος ‘ass’ and, in so doing, activate a network of other puns and hints at the play's title, asses (the animal), and both homoerotic and anal sex
The Servvs Callidvs and Ritual Imagery in Plautus’ Epidicvs
Plautus marks, the title character of Epidicus as a special, over-the-top instance of the seruus callidus stock type by associating him throughout the play with various religious roles of increasing importance. Through claims made by both the character himself and others, Epidicus is progressively figured as sacrificial victim, sacrificer, embalmer, auspex, Agamemnon, and son of Vulcan. This “program of sacralization” is original to Plautus and u…
The Servvs Callidvs and Ritual Imagery in Plautus’ Epidicvs
Plautus marks, the title character of Epidicus as a special, over-the-top instance of the seruus callidus stock type by associating him throughout the play with various religious roles of increasing importance. Through claims made by both the character himself and others, Epidicus is progressively figured as sacrificial victim, sacrificer, embalmer, auspex, Agamemnon, and son of Vulcan. This “program of sacralization” is original to Plautus and u…
World of Wordcraft
This article outlines an innovative approach to the instruction of foreign languages: a term-long role-playing game in the style of tabletop role-playing games such as Dungeons & Dragons. Students adopt personas, avatars, or “player characters” and take them through adventures, exploration, puzzles, and fights with monsters, all of which are tied to specific language-acquisition exercises and practice. I detail at length my specific implementatio…
Lucretius
184 PHOENIX of tricks” (351)—and in Terence’s Adelphoe, a masterpiece of musical minimalism. Terence communicates much through subtle contrasts between iambic octonarii, sung by young lovers and their allies, and trochaics, sung by characters opposed to them. This play, however, also includes a rather un-Terentian lover’s monody, whose polymetric lyrics are dominated by aeolics. It may be, as Moore wonders in Chapter Five, that the aeolic rhythm …
Pop Music and Graeco-Roman Erotic Verse
This paper discusses shared thematic ground between ancient erotic verse and modern Anglo-American popular music, and presents a “pop topos” assignment that asks students to illustrate ancient erotic topoi with modern popular music of their choosing, an activity the author has used successfully in an advanced Latin reading course on Roman elegy. By bringing familiar modern cultural artifacts into discourse with social and literary issues in ancie…
Lucretius' Personified Natura Rerum, Satire, and Ennius' Saturae
The personified Natura Rerum in Lucretius 3 is a satirist. Her speeches contain the hallmarks of satire, she anticipates guest satirists in later satura, and the personification alludes to a lost passage of Ennius' Saturae. She grants authority and satiric bite to the narrator's refutation of the fear of death
Laughing Atoms, Laughing Matter
Laughing Atoms, Laughing Matter: Lucretius' De Rerum Natura and Satire offers the first comprehensive examination of Roman epic poet Lucretius' engagement with satire. Author T. H. M. Gellar-Goad argues that what has often been understood as an artfully persuasive exposition of Epicurean philosophy designed to convert the uninitiated is actually a mimesis of the narrator's attempt to effect such a conversion on his internal narrative audience—a p…
Antestari
Grattius. Hunting an Augustan Poet. Edited, with Text, Translation, Introduction, and Appendix, by Steven J. Green
Urine, Sex, and Watchmen
Therapontigonus Was on Stage the Whole Time
Approaches to Lucretius
BOOK REVIEWS/COMPTES RENDUS 163 reader of Latin poetry with some interesting things to say about these fragments. This chapter should stir up productive debate. Poetry and History is the third collection of essays on the Annales to have appeared in the last fifteen years.6 How does it compare? Next to the others, this volume is a touch unwieldy, and perhaps less deserving of a cover-to-cover read. On the other hand, the general quality of its ind…
Plautus
This is the first book-length study of Plautus’ shortest surviving comedy, Curculio, a play in which the tricksy brown-nosed title character (“The Weevil”) bamboozles a shady banker and a pious pimp to secure the freedom of the enslaved girl his patron has fallen for while keeping her out of the clutches of a megalomaniacal soldier. It all takes place in the Greek city Epidaurus, the most important site for the worship of the healing god Aesculap…
The Lexicon of Profit and Commerce in Ovid's Ars Amatoria and Other Works
This paper studies the vocabulary of advantage, exchange, and loss in Ovid's Ars Amatoria, which stands apart from the rest of the Ovidian corpus (and from the rest of Roman erotic elegy) in its special, systematic handling of these words. Philological analysis of utor and related terms shows that the praeceptor amoris of Ars, importing language of commerce and profit into his teaching, contradicts his supposed intent of creating durable romantic…
Plautus
This new volume in the Bloomsbury Ancient Comedy Companions series is perfect for students coming to one of Plautus’ most whimsical, provocative, and influential plays for the first time, and a useful first point of reference for scholars less familiar with Roman comedy. Menaechmi is a tale of identical twin brothers who are separated as young children and reconnect as adults following a series of misadventures due to mistaken identity. A glutton…
Epicurus in Rome
The role of Greek thought in the final days of the Roman republic is a topic that has garnered much attention in recent years. This volume of essays, commissioned specially from a distinguished international group of scholars, explores the role and influence of Greek philosophy, specifically Epicureanism, in the late republic. It focuses primarily (although not exclusively) on the works and views of Cicero, premier politician and Roman philosophe…
Plautus
Plautus’ Mostellaria is one of ancient Rome’s most breezy and amusing comedies. The plot is ridiculously simple: when a father returns home after three years abroad, a clever slave named Tranio devises deceptions to conceal that the son has squandered a fortune partying with pals and purchasing his prized prostitute’s freedom. Tranio convinces the gullible father that his house is haunted, that his son has purchased the neighbor’s house, and that…
Assplay in Asinaria
This note argues that repeated uses of onus ‘burden’ in Plaut. Asin . 591–745 pun on Greek ὄνος ‘ass’ and, in so doing, activate a network of other puns and hints at the play's title, asses (the animal), and both homoerotic and anal sex
Andria Moi Ennepe
This note argues for a previously unnoticed allusion in Terence's Andria to Odysseus and the Sirens, in a wish expressed by the play's old man that his son will escape the alluring clutches of the sex-labourer next door
Epicurus in Rome
The role of Greek thought in the final days of the Roman republic is a topic that has garnered much attention in recent years. This volume of essays, commissioned specially from a distinguished international group of scholars, explores the role and influence of Greek philosophy, specifically Epicureanism, in the late republic. It focuses primarily (although not exclusively) on the works and views of Cicero, premier politician and Roman philosophe…
Sus and Mus in Lucretius ( De rerum natura 5.25), Vergil ( Georgics 1.181), and Horace ( Ars poetica 139)
This note argues that the Lucretian hexameter-final monosyllable Arcadius sus (5.25) stands at the beginning of a Roman hexameter tradition of satiric final-monosyllable animals, echoed by Vergil’s exiguus mus at Georgics 1.181 and Horace’s ridiculus mus at Ars poetica 139. Lucretius’ sus, in context, deflates and deglamorizes the boarish Labor of Hercules; Vergil’s mus makes the satiric subtext explicit, and playfully suggests that pest control …
Didactic Literature in the Roman World
Scilicet et non est lignis tamen insitus ignis
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