Damien Nelis
Biographic Data
| ID | 1421736 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Damien Nelis |
| GIVEN NAMES | Damien |
| FAMILY NAME | Nelis |
| SIGNATURE | NELIS D |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Geneva |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 29 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 122 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 27 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1991 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Mystery Cults in Latin Texts: Introduction
Mystery Cult in Vergil
In this paper we begin with a brief survey of the presence of the mysteries in Greek and Latin epic poetry, before giving an overview of the mysteries in Vergil and attempting to identify the function of the references to mystery religion in Aeneid 6. Throughout, we consider the modality of how the poets allude to the mysteries in ways that allow mystery cults to take on a life of their own in imaginative literary representations, arriving at the…
Intertextuality in Flavian Epic Poetry: Contemporary Approaches
No Regrets: Remorse in Classical Antiquity, written by Fulkerson, L
Arise, Aratus
Lucan and Claudian: Context and Intertext
The Space that Remains: Reading Latin Poetry in Late Antiquity by Aaron Pelttari
194 PHOENIX et celles qui le consulteront uniquement pour savoir s’il existe une source fragmentaire pour l’événement qu’ils recherchent. Sans être absolument nécessaire, l’organisation par ordre alphabétique et numérique des index énumérant les sujets couverts par chacun des auteurs aurait tout aussi bien fait l’affaire. De toute évidence, FRHist va devenir l’ouvrage de référence par excellence en matière de sources de fragments historiques roma…
Empedoclean epic: How far can you go
This paper attempts to take one step further the argument of P.R. Hardie’s 1995 article in Classical Quarterly, entitled ‘The Speech of Pythagoras in Ovid Metamorphoses 15: Empedoclean Epos’, by showing that Lucan can be fitted easily into a version of Latin literary history that privileges the presence of recurring Empedoclean influence
Past, Present, and Future in Virgil's Georgics
This chapter offers a study of the ways in which Vergil inscribes the Georgics into recent history by dramatizing the connection between the composition and the reading of the poem and the ongoing process of Roman history. It argues that the poem offers visions of recent history from both pre- and post-Actian perspectives, thus highlighting Octavian’s victory there as a major historical turning point.
Furor epigraphicus: Augustus, the Poets, and the Inscriptions
The study of Augustan Latin poetry involves detailed scrutiny of the ways in which the poets of the age participate in the complex forces of political and cultural transformation surrounding them. Whether in relation to tracing and interpreting developments in religion or art, social, and administrative change, the exploitation of multiple forms of communication, or evolving patterns of encomiastic expression, scholars working in the field of Aug…
Callimachus in Verona: Catullus and Alexandrian poetry
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Catullus: Poems, Books, Readers
In this book, a sequel to Traditions and Contexts in the Poetry of Horace (Cambridge University Press, 2002), ten leading Latin scholars provide specially commissioned in-depth discussions of the poetry of Catullus, one of ancient Rome's most favourite and best loved poets. Some chapters focus on the collection as a whole and the interrelationship of various poems; others deal with intertextuality and translation and Catullus' response to his Gre…
Vergil, Georgics 1.1-42 and the pompa circensis
In this paper we attempt to show that the prologue of the first book of the Georgics, in which a series of deities is invoked to preside over the beginning of Vergil’s text, should be related to the pompa circensis, the grand procession of deities which preceded the celebration of the ludi circenses. The Vergilian passage is compared with the descriptions of the pompa to be found in Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Roman Antiquities 7.72.1-18 and Ovid…
Munera uestra cano: The Poet, the Gods, and the Thematic Unity of Georgics 1
This chapter offers a study of some aspects of the structure of the first book of Vergil's Georgics. It attempts to explain the book's thematic coherence by looking at the ways in which the poet relates his description of the life and work of the Italian farmer to the movement of the solar year, to Roman history, and to contemporary politics. Particular attention is paid to the ways in which Vergil reacts to his predecessors in the didactic genre…
Vergil's Library
This chapter contains sections titled: Appendix Further Reading
Translating the emotions: Some uses of animus in Vergil's Aeneid
In recent years, considerable scholarly attention has been devoted to investigating the influence of Lucretius' De rerum natura on Vergil. At the same time, the Aeneid has become a central text for the study of the presentation of the emotions in Latin poetry. The author attempts to bring together these two trends in Vergilian scholarship by trying to see if the depiction of emotions in Vergilian epic owes anything to Lucretian precedent. He focu…
Apollonius and Virgil
Petronius’ epigraphic habit
In this paper we attempt to offer a survey of the references to writing and inscribing texts in the 'Satyrica' of Petronius. We concentrate on inscriptions in order to relate them to the phenomenon known as the 'epigraphic habit' and the rapid rise of a culture of epigraphic self-representation in Roman society in the course of the first century BCE. We also explore the ways in which the reading of texts by characters in the novel and in particul…
Two Virgilian Acrostics: Certissima Signa
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Georgics 2.458–542: Virgil, Aratus and Empedocles
felix qui potuit rerum cognoscere causasatque metus omnis et inexorabile fatumsubiecit pedibus strepitumque Acherontis avari :fortunatus et ille deos qui novit agrestisPanaque Silvanumque senem Nymphasque sorores. In his discussion of the famous double makarismos of Georgics 2.490-4, Philip Hardie writes: « one wonders whether Virgil is deliberately exploiting an Empedoclean passage ». More recently, again in relation to the closing section of th…
Latin Epic and Didactic Poetry: Genre, Tradition and Individuality
Clio and the Poets: Augustan Poetry and the Traditions of Ancient Historiography
The Augustan age was one in which writers were constantly reworking the Roman past, and which was marked by a profound engagement of poets with the historians and historical techniques which were the main vehicle for the transmission of the image of the past to their day. In this book seventeen leading scholars from Europe and America examine the fascinating interaction between such apparently diverse genres: how the Augustan poets drew on - or r…
Clio and the Poets: Augustan Poetry and the Traditions of Ancient Historiography
Apollonius and Virgil
Vergil's Aeneid and the Argonautica of Apollonius Rhodius (Arca, 39)
Vergil's Aeneid and the Argonautica of Apollonius Rhodius (Arca, 39)
A Companion to Apollonius Rhodius
This volume on Apollonius of Rhodes, whose Argonautica is the sole full-length epic to survive from the Hellenistic period, comprises articles by fourteen leading scholars from Europe and America. Their contributions cover a wide range of issues from the history of the text and the problems of the poet's biography through questions of style, literary technique and intertextual relations to the epic's literary and cultural reception. The aim is to…
Two Virgilian Acrostics: Certissima Signa
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Lucan and Claudian: Context and Intertext
Arise, Aratus
Clio and the Poets: Augustan Poetry and the Traditions of Ancient Historiography
The Augustan age was one in which writers were constantly reworking the Roman past, and which was marked by a profound engagement of poets with the historians and historical techniques which were the main vehicle for the transmission of the image of the past to their day. In this book seventeen leading scholars from Europe and America examine the fascinating interaction between such apparently diverse genres: how the Augustan poets drew on - or r…
Empedoclean epic: How far can you go
This paper attempts to take one step further the argument of P.R. Hardie’s 1995 article in Classical Quarterly, entitled ‘The Speech of Pythagoras in Ovid Metamorphoses 15: Empedoclean Epos’, by showing that Lucan can be fitted easily into a version of Latin literary history that privileges the presence of recurring Empedoclean influence
Vergil, Georgics 1.1-42 and the pompa circensis
In this paper we attempt to show that the prologue of the first book of the Georgics, in which a series of deities is invoked to preside over the beginning of Vergil’s text, should be related to the pompa circensis, the grand procession of deities which preceded the celebration of the ludi circenses. The Vergilian passage is compared with the descriptions of the pompa to be found in Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Roman Antiquities 7.72.1-18 and Ovid…
Translating the emotions: Some uses of animus in Vergil's Aeneid
In recent years, considerable scholarly attention has been devoted to investigating the influence of Lucretius' De rerum natura on Vergil. At the same time, the Aeneid has become a central text for the study of the presentation of the emotions in Latin poetry. The author attempts to bring together these two trends in Vergilian scholarship by trying to see if the depiction of emotions in Vergilian epic owes anything to Lucretian precedent. He focu…
Iphias: Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica 1.311–61
As an Apollo-like (1.307–9) Jason leaves home to start the long journey in quest of the Golden Fleece a strange incident occurs: The first thing to be said about this scene is that it is almost certainly an invention of Apollonius Rhodius
Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica 4.12
At Argonautica 4.12–13, Medea, frightened and on the point of fleeing her home, 2 is compared to a young deer
Iphias: Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica 1.311–61
As an Apollo-like (1.307–9) Jason leaves home to start the long journey in quest of the Golden Fleece a strange incident occurs: The first thing to be said about this scene is that it is almost certainly an invention of Apollonius Rhodius
Apollonius and Virgil
Vergil's Aeneid and the Argonautica of Apollonius Rhodius (Arca, 39)
L’Énéide et les origines de Rome: L'épopée étiologique
Le thème Origines Gentium m’invite à aborder cette étude du caractère étiologique de l'Enéide par une citation tirée des Origines de Caton (fr. 1.6, Chassignet) : Cato in Originibus hoc dicit, cuius auctoritatem Sallustius sequitur in belloCatilinae, primo Italiam tenuisse quosdam qui appellabantur Aborigines. Hos postea adventu Aeneae Phrygibus iunctos Latinos uno nomine nuncupatos. Voici ce que l'ouvrage intitulé Origo Gentis Romanae 4.1-3 nous…
A Companion to Apollonius Rhodius
This volume on Apollonius of Rhodes, whose Argonautica is the sole full-length epic to survive from the Hellenistic period, comprises articles by fourteen leading scholars from Europe and America. Their contributions cover a wide range of issues from the history of the text and the problems of the poet's biography through questions of style, literary technique and intertextual relations to the epic's literary and cultural reception. The aim is to…
Clio and the Poets: Augustan Poetry and the Traditions of Ancient Historiography
Georgics 2.458–542: Virgil, Aratus and Empedocles
felix qui potuit rerum cognoscere causasatque metus omnis et inexorabile fatumsubiecit pedibus strepitumque Acherontis avari :fortunatus et ille deos qui novit agrestisPanaque Silvanumque senem Nymphasque sorores. In his discussion of the famous double makarismos of Georgics 2.490-4, Philip Hardie writes: « one wonders whether Virgil is deliberately exploiting an Empedoclean passage ». More recently, again in relation to the closing section of th…
Latin Epic and Didactic Poetry: Genre, Tradition and Individuality
Clio and the Poets: Augustan Poetry and the Traditions of Ancient Historiography
The Augustan age was one in which writers were constantly reworking the Roman past, and which was marked by a profound engagement of poets with the historians and historical techniques which were the main vehicle for the transmission of the image of the past to their day. In this book seventeen leading scholars from Europe and America examine the fascinating interaction between such apparently diverse genres: how the Augustan poets drew on - or r…
Petronius’ epigraphic habit
In this paper we attempt to offer a survey of the references to writing and inscribing texts in the 'Satyrica' of Petronius. We concentrate on inscriptions in order to relate them to the phenomenon known as the 'epigraphic habit' and the rapid rise of a culture of epigraphic self-representation in Roman society in the course of the first century BCE. We also explore the ways in which the reading of texts by characters in the novel and in particul…
Two Virgilian Acrostics: Certissima Signa
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
Apollonius and Virgil
Translating the emotions: Some uses of animus in Vergil's Aeneid
In recent years, considerable scholarly attention has been devoted to investigating the influence of Lucretius' De rerum natura on Vergil. At the same time, the Aeneid has become a central text for the study of the presentation of the emotions in Latin poetry. The author attempts to bring together these two trends in Vergilian scholarship by trying to see if the depiction of emotions in Vergilian epic owes anything to Lucretian precedent. He focu…
Munera uestra cano: The Poet, the Gods, and the Thematic Unity of Georgics 1
This chapter offers a study of some aspects of the structure of the first book of Vergil's Georgics. It attempts to explain the book's thematic coherence by looking at the ways in which the poet relates his description of the life and work of the Italian farmer to the movement of the solar year, to Roman history, and to contemporary politics. Particular attention is paid to the ways in which Vergil reacts to his predecessors in the didactic genre…
Vergil's Library
This chapter contains sections titled: Appendix Further Reading
Vergil, Georgics 1.1-42 and the pompa circensis
In this paper we attempt to show that the prologue of the first book of the Georgics, in which a series of deities is invoked to preside over the beginning of Vergil’s text, should be related to the pompa circensis, the grand procession of deities which preceded the celebration of the ludi circenses. The Vergilian passage is compared with the descriptions of the pompa to be found in Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Roman Antiquities 7.72.1-18 and Ovid…
Callimachus in Verona: Catullus and Alexandrian poetry
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.
Catullus: Poems, Books, Readers
In this book, a sequel to Traditions and Contexts in the Poetry of Horace (Cambridge University Press, 2002), ten leading Latin scholars provide specially commissioned in-depth discussions of the poetry of Catullus, one of ancient Rome's most favourite and best loved poets. Some chapters focus on the collection as a whole and the interrelationship of various poems; others deal with intertextuality and translation and Catullus' response to his Gre…
Past, Present, and Future in Virgil's Georgics
This chapter offers a study of the ways in which Vergil inscribes the Georgics into recent history by dramatizing the connection between the composition and the reading of the poem and the ongoing process of Roman history. It argues that the poem offers visions of recent history from both pre- and post-Actian perspectives, thus highlighting Octavian’s victory there as a major historical turning point.
Furor epigraphicus: Augustus, the Poets, and the Inscriptions
The study of Augustan Latin poetry involves detailed scrutiny of the ways in which the poets of the age participate in the complex forces of political and cultural transformation surrounding them. Whether in relation to tracing and interpreting developments in religion or art, social, and administrative change, the exploitation of multiple forms of communication, or evolving patterns of encomiastic expression, scholars working in the field of Aug…
Empedoclean epic: How far can you go
This paper attempts to take one step further the argument of P.R. Hardie’s 1995 article in Classical Quarterly, entitled ‘The Speech of Pythagoras in Ovid Metamorphoses 15: Empedoclean Epos’, by showing that Lucan can be fitted easily into a version of Latin literary history that privileges the presence of recurring Empedoclean influence
The Space that Remains: Reading Latin Poetry in Late Antiquity by Aaron Pelttari
194 PHOENIX et celles qui le consulteront uniquement pour savoir s’il existe une source fragmentaire pour l’événement qu’ils recherchent. Sans être absolument nécessaire, l’organisation par ordre alphabétique et numérique des index énumérant les sujets couverts par chacun des auteurs aurait tout aussi bien fait l’affaire. De toute évidence, FRHist va devenir l’ouvrage de référence par excellence en matière de sources de fragments historiques roma…
No Regrets: Remorse in Classical Antiquity, written by Fulkerson, L
Arise, Aratus
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