Andrew Zissos
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 1428341 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Andrew Zissos |
| PRENOMES | Andrew |
| SOBRENOME | Zissos |
| ASSINATURA | ZISSOS A |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of California System |
| VERIFICADO | Não |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 17 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 58 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 15 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 2 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1999 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2020 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
‘Somatic Economies’
Transformative Change in Western Thought
The Transformations of Ovid’s Medea (Metamorphoses vii. 1–424)
Few figures in ancient myth have provoked such abiding fascination as Medea, the Colchian princess and sorceress who betrayed family and nation out of love for the Greek hero Jason, and then exacted horrific vengeance years later when Jason abandoned her for another woman. The tale of the Argonauts, the Greek heroes who sailed to Colchis in quest of the golden fleece, was among the most widely treated myths in ancient literature. A more technical…
General Introduction
In the Western cultural tradition, prejudices against marvellous transformation run deep, and metamorphosis has routinely functioned as the alien other of various norms and systems of belief. Efforts in definition and taxonomy such as those of Kuon and Zgoll, then, are heuristically valuable insofar as they force people to think about what 'the essence' of the term might be—and to situate it within a set of related ideas. Before leaving the realm…
The Flavian Legacy
This chapter tackles in broad terms some of the ways in which the Flavian dynasty, its actions and the monuments it erected have resonated in subsequent eras. For later periods the Flavian Age was marked by two cataclysmic events that have resonated through the centuries: the destruction of Pompeii and neighboring towns caused by the eruption of Vesuvius, and the sacking of Jerusalem. The high esteem in which the Flavians were generally held by R…
Vesuvius and Pompeii
Pliny the Elder has been seen by many critics as an emblematic figure of the Flavian Age. This chapter considers a few acts of reception that draw with particularly directness on the Vesuvius letters. The tendency of modern writers has been to strip away the attempts of the nephew to lionize his own conduct in the Vesuvius letters. The modern discovery and subsequent excavation of the buried city, along with its less celebrated neighbors, has pro…
Reception of Flavian Literature
The Flavian Age was a period rich in literary production, the bulk of which, as is true for any age of antiquity, has not survived. A number of the surviving works of Flavian Latin literature have enjoyed immense prestige in later periods, and have exerted a profound influence on subsequent Western culture. A considerable influence has been exerted on later literature by Latin poetry of the Flavian Age, particularly in the case of Martial's Epigr…
Ovid, Metamorphoses, 3.511-733
This course book offers a wide-ranging introduction, the original Latin text, study aids with vocabulary, and an extensive commentary. Designed to stretch and stimulate readers, Gildenhard and Zissos's incisive commentary will be of particular interest to students of Latin at AS and undergraduate level. It extends beyond detailed linguistic analysis to encourage critical engagement with Ovid's poetry and discussion of the most recent scholarly th…
A Companion to the Flavian Age of Imperial Rome
Lucan and Caesar
Navigating Power
A cursory examination suffices to grasp the extent to which Valerius Flaccus' Argonautica is embedded in a specific culture and historical moment. Despite the intrinsically Greek background of the myth and use of Apollonius Rhodius as principal narrative model, Valerius' poem manifests a preoccupation with Roman culture and history. Beyond the enumeration of such unambiguous manifestations of Romanitas , scholars have sought to identify political…
Valerius Flaccus' Argonautica Book I
"This commentary on the first book of Valerius Flaccus' Argonautica also includes an introduction, the text (with apparatus criticus) and a facing English translation. The commentary proper addresses narrower textual and semantic questions, on the one hand, and broader questions of stylistics, poetics, thematics, and cultural context on the other. Particularly close attention is paid to Valerius' choice of diction, his sophisticated use of figure…
Barbarian variations
This article offers a detailed examination of Ovid's Tereus, Procne and Philomela épisode (Met. 6.412-674). Our focus on the tale's literary and thematic profile, within its history of reception (from Seneca's Thyestes through Shakespeare's Titus Andronicus to Ransmayr's The Last World). We consider four interrelated features of Ovid's narrative that have attracted the attention of subsequent artists, but have yet to find full acknowledge-ment an…
Ovid's ‘Hecale’
Scholars have long recognized a cultural tension inherent in the scheme of Ovid's Metamorphoses: while most of the materia of the epic is Greek, Rome is its triumphant narrative telos. The epic's Hellenic underpinnings have received abundant critical attention; rather less well documented and discussed is the subtle undercurrent of Romanitas that sustains Ovid's overarching cultural teleology throughout the poem. This Roman ‘cultural vector’ regi…
Spectacle and Elite in the Argonautica of Valerius Flaccus
The Argonautica of Valerius Flaccus opens with a conventional-looking praeteritio that contrasts the chosen mythic narrative with a more overtly historical subject in this case, the recent conquest of Jerusalem by Titus. The mythic narrative of the Argonautic saga takes on aspects of a cultural commentary by importing key societal constructs and tensions from contemporary, late Flavian Rome. The amphitheatre was a cultural institution that assume…
Ovid's Narcissus ( Met. 3.339-510)
Ovid's Narcissus (Met. 3.339-510):Echoes of Oedipus Ingo Gildenhard and Andrew Zissos Narcissistic Thebes? Ovid's tales of Echo and Narcissus, while mutually enhancing in their magnificently suggestive symmetries,1 have long been considered an oddity in their larger narrative context.2 Otis, for instance, is not alone in feeling that they are quite "extraneous" to the Theban milieu which dominates this particular stretch of the Metamorphoses, sin…
The Rape of Proserpina in Ovid "Met." 5.341-661
The Proserpina narrative the Metamorphoses has not lacked for critical attention the twentieth century. The presence of an apparently contemporaneous1 companion version Ovid's Fasti (4.417-620) has inevitably prompted comparative studies, often along generic lines.2 In this paper, I shall follow the recent trend towards narratological readings of the Metamorphoses episode,3 with the aim of demonstrating a fundamental difference between the two na…
A Companion to the Flavian Age of Imperial Rome
The Rape of Proserpina in Ovid "Met." 5.341-661
The Proserpina narrative the Metamorphoses has not lacked for critical attention the twentieth century. The presence of an apparently contemporaneous1 companion version Ovid's Fasti (4.417-620) has inevitably prompted comparative studies, often along generic lines.2 In this paper, I shall follow the recent trend towards narratological readings of the Metamorphoses episode,3 with the aim of demonstrating a fundamental difference between the two na…
Ovid's ‘Hecale’
Scholars have long recognized a cultural tension inherent in the scheme of Ovid's Metamorphoses: while most of the materia of the epic is Greek, Rome is its triumphant narrative telos. The epic's Hellenic underpinnings have received abundant critical attention; rather less well documented and discussed is the subtle undercurrent of Romanitas that sustains Ovid's overarching cultural teleology throughout the poem. This Roman ‘cultural vector’ regi…
Ovid's Narcissus ( Met. 3.339-510)
Ovid's Narcissus (Met. 3.339-510):Echoes of Oedipus Ingo Gildenhard and Andrew Zissos Narcissistic Thebes? Ovid's tales of Echo and Narcissus, while mutually enhancing in their magnificently suggestive symmetries,1 have long been considered an oddity in their larger narrative context.2 Otis, for instance, is not alone in feeling that they are quite "extraneous" to the Theban milieu which dominates this particular stretch of the Metamorphoses, sin…
Barbarian variations
This article offers a detailed examination of Ovid's Tereus, Procne and Philomela épisode (Met. 6.412-674). Our focus on the tale's literary and thematic profile, within its history of reception (from Seneca's Thyestes through Shakespeare's Titus Andronicus to Ransmayr's The Last World). We consider four interrelated features of Ovid's narrative that have attracted the attention of subsequent artists, but have yet to find full acknowledge-ment an…
The Rape of Proserpina in Ovid "Met." 5.341-661
The Proserpina narrative the Metamorphoses has not lacked for critical attention the twentieth century. The presence of an apparently contemporaneous1 companion version Ovid's Fasti (4.417-620) has inevitably prompted comparative studies, often along generic lines.2 In this paper, I shall follow the recent trend towards narratological readings of the Metamorphoses episode,3 with the aim of demonstrating a fundamental difference between the two na…
Ovid's Narcissus ( Met. 3.339-510)
Ovid's Narcissus (Met. 3.339-510):Echoes of Oedipus Ingo Gildenhard and Andrew Zissos Narcissistic Thebes? Ovid's tales of Echo and Narcissus, while mutually enhancing in their magnificently suggestive symmetries,1 have long been considered an oddity in their larger narrative context.2 Otis, for instance, is not alone in feeling that they are quite "extraneous" to the Theban milieu which dominates this particular stretch of the Metamorphoses, sin…
Spectacle and Elite in the Argonautica of Valerius Flaccus
The Argonautica of Valerius Flaccus opens with a conventional-looking praeteritio that contrasts the chosen mythic narrative with a more overtly historical subject in this case, the recent conquest of Jerusalem by Titus. The mythic narrative of the Argonautic saga takes on aspects of a cultural commentary by importing key societal constructs and tensions from contemporary, late Flavian Rome. The amphitheatre was a cultural institution that assume…
Ovid's ‘Hecale’
Scholars have long recognized a cultural tension inherent in the scheme of Ovid's Metamorphoses: while most of the materia of the epic is Greek, Rome is its triumphant narrative telos. The epic's Hellenic underpinnings have received abundant critical attention; rather less well documented and discussed is the subtle undercurrent of Romanitas that sustains Ovid's overarching cultural teleology throughout the poem. This Roman ‘cultural vector’ regi…
Barbarian variations
This article offers a detailed examination of Ovid's Tereus, Procne and Philomela épisode (Met. 6.412-674). Our focus on the tale's literary and thematic profile, within its history of reception (from Seneca's Thyestes through Shakespeare's Titus Andronicus to Ransmayr's The Last World). We consider four interrelated features of Ovid's narrative that have attracted the attention of subsequent artists, but have yet to find full acknowledge-ment an…
Valerius Flaccus' Argonautica Book I
"This commentary on the first book of Valerius Flaccus' Argonautica also includes an introduction, the text (with apparatus criticus) and a facing English translation. The commentary proper addresses narrower textual and semantic questions, on the one hand, and broader questions of stylistics, poetics, thematics, and cultural context on the other. Particularly close attention is paid to Valerius' choice of diction, his sophisticated use of figure…
Navigating Power
A cursory examination suffices to grasp the extent to which Valerius Flaccus' Argonautica is embedded in a specific culture and historical moment. Despite the intrinsically Greek background of the myth and use of Apollonius Rhodius as principal narrative model, Valerius' poem manifests a preoccupation with Roman culture and history. Beyond the enumeration of such unambiguous manifestations of Romanitas , scholars have sought to identify political…
Lucan and Caesar
The Flavian Legacy
This chapter tackles in broad terms some of the ways in which the Flavian dynasty, its actions and the monuments it erected have resonated in subsequent eras. For later periods the Flavian Age was marked by two cataclysmic events that have resonated through the centuries: the destruction of Pompeii and neighboring towns caused by the eruption of Vesuvius, and the sacking of Jerusalem. The high esteem in which the Flavians were generally held by R…
Vesuvius and Pompeii
Pliny the Elder has been seen by many critics as an emblematic figure of the Flavian Age. This chapter considers a few acts of reception that draw with particularly directness on the Vesuvius letters. The tendency of modern writers has been to strip away the attempts of the nephew to lionize his own conduct in the Vesuvius letters. The modern discovery and subsequent excavation of the buried city, along with its less celebrated neighbors, has pro…
Reception of Flavian Literature
The Flavian Age was a period rich in literary production, the bulk of which, as is true for any age of antiquity, has not survived. A number of the surviving works of Flavian Latin literature have enjoyed immense prestige in later periods, and have exerted a profound influence on subsequent Western culture. A considerable influence has been exerted on later literature by Latin poetry of the Flavian Age, particularly in the case of Martial's Epigr…
Ovid, Metamorphoses, 3.511-733
This course book offers a wide-ranging introduction, the original Latin text, study aids with vocabulary, and an extensive commentary. Designed to stretch and stimulate readers, Gildenhard and Zissos's incisive commentary will be of particular interest to students of Latin at AS and undergraduate level. It extends beyond detailed linguistic analysis to encourage critical engagement with Ovid's poetry and discussion of the most recent scholarly th…
A Companion to the Flavian Age of Imperial Rome
Transformative Change in Western Thought
The Transformations of Ovid’s Medea (Metamorphoses vii. 1–424)
Few figures in ancient myth have provoked such abiding fascination as Medea, the Colchian princess and sorceress who betrayed family and nation out of love for the Greek hero Jason, and then exacted horrific vengeance years later when Jason abandoned her for another woman. The tale of the Argonauts, the Greek heroes who sailed to Colchis in quest of the golden fleece, was among the most widely treated myths in ancient literature. A more technical…
General Introduction
In the Western cultural tradition, prejudices against marvellous transformation run deep, and metamorphosis has routinely functioned as the alien other of various norms and systems of belief. Efforts in definition and taxonomy such as those of Kuon and Zgoll, then, are heuristically valuable insofar as they force people to think about what 'the essence' of the term might be—and to situate it within a set of related ideas. Before leaving the realm…
‘Somatic Economies’
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