Jacqueline Klooster
Biographic Data
| ID | 1428378 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jacqueline Klooster |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jacqueline |
| FAMILY NAME | Klooster |
| SIGNATURE | KLOOSTER J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Centre de Recherches Historiques |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3963-7354 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 24 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 65 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 22 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Θαλεροί τ ̓ αἰζηοί
This paper addresses the visual language of a specific set of Mycenaean wall-paintings that depict hunting scenes. Specifically, it aims to investigate the purposes and modes of their depiction. It will be argued that the recurrence of hunting scenes, and specifically boar hunting scenes, in the Late Bronze Age (LBA) Greek wall painting tradition refers to a set of common values and ideals, linked to the visualisation of an elite, or palatial ide…
The Narratology of Emotions in Ancient Literature
Emotions and Narrative in Ancient Literature and Beyond
Emotions are at the core of much ancient literature, from Achilles’ heartfelt anger in Homer’s Iliad to the pangs of love of Virgil’s Dido. This volume applies a narratological approach to emotions in a wide range of texts and genres. It seeks to analyze ways in which emotions such as anger, fear, pity, joy, love and sadness are portrayed. Furthermore, using recent insights from affective narratology, it studies ways in which ancient narratives e…
Inventing Origins? Aetiological Thinking in Greek and Roman Antiquity
sculpture was a part of a series titled Sculptures by the Sea, which aimed to stimulate discussion on the environmental responsibility of human beings in light of climate change. Yet, as every artwork, it produces multiple meanings, beyond the artist's original intention. The features of a technical device (here: a tap) imitate nature (here: a swan). The tap/swan seems to explore its origin (looking at the water, where a real swan should be). Fur…
Writing Monarchs of the Hellenistic Age
After the Crisis
Crises resulting from war or other upheavals turn the lives of individuals upside down, and they can leave marks on a community for many years after the event. This volume aims to explore how such crises were remembered in the ancient world, and how communities reconstituted themselves after a crisis. Can crises serve as catalysts for innovation or change, and how does this work? What do crises reveal about the ‘normality’ against which they are …
Ancient Biographies of Statesmen
This chapter discusses ancient biographies of statesmen. What is the nature of ancient political biography? It is the description of the life and deeds of a significant political player of the recent or far past, individually told or in a series, with the intent of edifying the readers. This means that such a work often has an encomiastic, or at any rate evaluative cast, and may even employ certain acknowledged untruths in order to bring out the …
Studies in the Reception of Pindar in Ptolemaic Poetry by Alexandros Kampakoglou
BOOK REVIEWS/COMPTES RENDUS 323 control. The authenticity of the poems has been questioned, owing to their lack of specificity and their broad application to an Athens that over centuries debated the success of its democracy.1 But in a study of poets’ construction of social identity we can work with the poems as Solon’s. In his fr. 4 W Romney sees him using some of the same rhetorical techniques she identified in Tyrtaeus and Alcaeus—adopting an …
De Res Gestae en de politieke autobiografie van de Late Republiek
This article places the Res Gestae of Augustus against the background of political autobiographies written during the civil wars of the Late Republic. I will look in particular at (fragments) of the autobiographical writings of Sulla, Cicero, Caesar and Augustus himself, in order to get a better grip on the specific characteristics of the Res Gestae
A Speaker of Words and Doer of Deeds
Homer and the Good Ruler in Antiquity and Beyond
Homer and the Good Ruler in Antiquity and Beyond
Homer and the Good Ruler in Antiquity and Beyond focuses on the important question of how and why later authors employ Homeric poetry to reflect on various types and aspects of leadership. In a range of essays discussing generically diverse receptions of the epics of Homer in historically diverse contexts, this question is answered in various ways. Rather than considering Homer’s works as literary products, then, this volume discusses the pedagog…
Tiberius and Hellenistic Poetry
This paper investigates how Suetonius uses his representation of the literary taste of the emperor Tiberius to characterize him. Tiberius allegedly loved and imitated Hellenistic poets (Euphorion, Rhianus and Parthenius). How does this characterize him? Another question is whether this taste is modern or old-fashioned in comparison with the tastes of his contemporaries, in particular his predecessor Augustus. Finally I ask whether the fact that a…
Solon of Athens as a Precedent for Plutarch’s Authorial Persona
Solon is the subject of both a Plutarchan biography ( Solon ) and a philosophical dialogue ( Convivium septem sapientium ). In this article I argue that Plutarch creates a precedent for his authorial persona of wise but modest adviser of the ruling class under the Roman empire in the figure of the Athenian sage Solon, presumably inspired by the fact that Herodotus used Solon as a text-internal alter ego. To this end I analyze in particular how Pl…
Between (unbearable) Lightness and Darkness
Klooster Jacqueline. Between (unbearable) Lightness and Darkness: Trends in Scholarship on Hellenistic Poetry. In: L'antiquité classique, Tome 83, 2014. pp. 159-169
Horace, Carmen 4.2.53–60
Carmen 4.2 is one of the most commented upon of the odes of Horace. It is indeed a complex poem. To summarize roughly: addressing the young poet Iullus Antonius, Horace presents the dangers of emulating Pindar, offering what seems like a lengthy description as well as an approximation of Pindar's own poetic style (1–24). Not as a doomed Icarus imitating the grand Pindaric swan, but in his own preferred mode, like a bee on the banks of Tibur, Hora…
Apostrophe in Homer, Apollonius and Callimachus
This paper will discuss instances in archaic Greek and Hellenistic poetic texts of the remarkable phenomenon that occurs when the narrator of a fiction addresses a character within the narrative, a figure known as ‘apostrophe’. As this form of address obviously breaks down the Genettian ‘holy boundary’ between the extra-diegetical level of the narrator and the intra-diegetical level of the characters, apostrophe is a clear example of metalepsis i…
The Ideologies of Lived Space in Literary Texts, Ancient and Modern
In a brief essay called Des espaces autres (1984) Michel Foucault announced that after the nineteenth century, which was dominated by a historical outlook, the current century might rather be the century of space. His prophecy has been fulfilled: the end of the twentieth century witnessed a "spatial turn" in humanities which was perhaps partly due to the globalisation of our modern world. Inspired by the spatial turn in the humanities, this volum…
Theocritus
Apollonius of Rhodes
Although the Argonautica is an epic, like the Iliad and the Odyssey , its treatment of time is quite different. The narrator of the Argonautica does not choose to begin in medias res but chronologically recounts the story of the journey from beginning to end, while at the same time referring to events external to the story and heterodiegetic facts on a much larger scale than the Homeric epics do. Instead of indulging in many scenes, and allowing …
Visualizing the impossible
L’Hymne à Délos de Callimaque présente l’une des descriptions les plus étonnantes de l’Antiquité d’un paysage personnifié. Cet article s’attache à deux aspects de la représentation pour ainsi dire surréaliste de Callimaque. Premièrement, j’étudie de manière assez détaillée les conventions et les concepts de la poésie antérieure que Callimaque utilise et détourne pour créer sa propre image d’un paysage mouvant et animé. Je m’intéresse en particuli…
Poetry as Window and Mirror
Hellenistic Poetry has enjoyed a notable re-appreciation in recent years and received ample scholarly discussion, especially focusing on its reception and innovation of Greek poetic tradition. This book wishes to add to our picture of how Hellenistic poetry works by looking at it from a slightly different angle. Concentrating on the interaction between contemporary poets, it attempts to view the dynamics of imitation and reception in the light of…
Dissertationes Batavae
Founded in 1683 in Leiden, the Netherlands, Brill is a leading international academic publisher in the Humanities, Social Sciences, International Law, and Biology. With offices in the Netherlands, Germany, Austria, the USA and Asia, Brill today publishes more than 360 journals and 2,000 new books and reference works each year as well as a large number of databases and primary source research collections
The New Posidippus, a Hellenistic Poetry Book
Founded in 1683 in Leiden, the Netherlands, Brill is a leading international academic publisher in the Humanities, Social Sciences, International Law, and Biology. With offices in the Netherlands, Germany, Austria, the USA and Asia, Brill today publishes more than 360 journals and 2,000 new books and reference works each year as well as a large number of databases and primary source research collections
The New Posidippus, a Hellenistic Poetry Book
Founded in 1683 in Leiden, the Netherlands, Brill is a leading international academic publisher in the Humanities, Social Sciences, International Law, and Biology. With offices in the Netherlands, Germany, Austria, the USA and Asia, Brill today publishes more than 360 journals and 2,000 new books and reference works each year as well as a large number of databases and primary source research collections
The Ideologies of Lived Space in Literary Texts, Ancient and Modern
In a brief essay called Des espaces autres (1984) Michel Foucault announced that after the nineteenth century, which was dominated by a historical outlook, the current century might rather be the century of space. His prophecy has been fulfilled: the end of the twentieth century witnessed a "spatial turn" in humanities which was perhaps partly due to the globalisation of our modern world. Inspired by the spatial turn in the humanities, this volum…
Poetry as Window and Mirror
Hellenistic Poetry has enjoyed a notable re-appreciation in recent years and received ample scholarly discussion, especially focusing on its reception and innovation of Greek poetic tradition. This book wishes to add to our picture of how Hellenistic poetry works by looking at it from a slightly different angle. Concentrating on the interaction between contemporary poets, it attempts to view the dynamics of imitation and reception in the light of…
Inventing Origins? Aetiological Thinking in Greek and Roman Antiquity
sculpture was a part of a series titled Sculptures by the Sea, which aimed to stimulate discussion on the environmental responsibility of human beings in light of climate change. Yet, as every artwork, it produces multiple meanings, beyond the artist's original intention. The features of a technical device (here: a tap) imitate nature (here: a swan). The tap/swan seems to explore its origin (looking at the water, where a real swan should be). Fur…
Homer and the Good Ruler in Antiquity and Beyond
Homer and the Good Ruler in Antiquity and Beyond focuses on the important question of how and why later authors employ Homeric poetry to reflect on various types and aspects of leadership. In a range of essays discussing generically diverse receptions of the epics of Homer in historically diverse contexts, this question is answered in various ways. Rather than considering Homer’s works as literary products, then, this volume discusses the pedagog…
Tiberius and Hellenistic Poetry
This paper investigates how Suetonius uses his representation of the literary taste of the emperor Tiberius to characterize him. Tiberius allegedly loved and imitated Hellenistic poets (Euphorion, Rhianus and Parthenius). How does this characterize him? Another question is whether this taste is modern or old-fashioned in comparison with the tastes of his contemporaries, in particular his predecessor Augustus. Finally I ask whether the fact that a…
Between (unbearable) Lightness and Darkness
Klooster Jacqueline. Between (unbearable) Lightness and Darkness: Trends in Scholarship on Hellenistic Poetry. In: L'antiquité classique, Tome 83, 2014. pp. 159-169
Visualizing the impossible
L’Hymne à Délos de Callimaque présente l’une des descriptions les plus étonnantes de l’Antiquité d’un paysage personnifié. Cet article s’attache à deux aspects de la représentation pour ainsi dire surréaliste de Callimaque. Premièrement, j’étudie de manière assez détaillée les conventions et les concepts de la poésie antérieure que Callimaque utilise et détourne pour créer sa propre image d’un paysage mouvant et animé. Je m’intéresse en particuli…
The New Posidippus, a Hellenistic Poetry Book
Founded in 1683 in Leiden, the Netherlands, Brill is a leading international academic publisher in the Humanities, Social Sciences, International Law, and Biology. With offices in the Netherlands, Germany, Austria, the USA and Asia, Brill today publishes more than 360 journals and 2,000 new books and reference works each year as well as a large number of databases and primary source research collections
Dissertationes Batavae
Founded in 1683 in Leiden, the Netherlands, Brill is a leading international academic publisher in the Humanities, Social Sciences, International Law, and Biology. With offices in the Netherlands, Germany, Austria, the USA and Asia, Brill today publishes more than 360 journals and 2,000 new books and reference works each year as well as a large number of databases and primary source research collections
Poetry as Window and Mirror
Hellenistic Poetry has enjoyed a notable re-appreciation in recent years and received ample scholarly discussion, especially focusing on its reception and innovation of Greek poetic tradition. This book wishes to add to our picture of how Hellenistic poetry works by looking at it from a slightly different angle. Concentrating on the interaction between contemporary poets, it attempts to view the dynamics of imitation and reception in the light of…
Theocritus
Apollonius of Rhodes
Although the Argonautica is an epic, like the Iliad and the Odyssey , its treatment of time is quite different. The narrator of the Argonautica does not choose to begin in medias res but chronologically recounts the story of the journey from beginning to end, while at the same time referring to events external to the story and heterodiegetic facts on a much larger scale than the Homeric epics do. Instead of indulging in many scenes, and allowing …
Visualizing the impossible
L’Hymne à Délos de Callimaque présente l’une des descriptions les plus étonnantes de l’Antiquité d’un paysage personnifié. Cet article s’attache à deux aspects de la représentation pour ainsi dire surréaliste de Callimaque. Premièrement, j’étudie de manière assez détaillée les conventions et les concepts de la poésie antérieure que Callimaque utilise et détourne pour créer sa propre image d’un paysage mouvant et animé. Je m’intéresse en particuli…
Horace, Carmen 4.2.53–60
Carmen 4.2 is one of the most commented upon of the odes of Horace. It is indeed a complex poem. To summarize roughly: addressing the young poet Iullus Antonius, Horace presents the dangers of emulating Pindar, offering what seems like a lengthy description as well as an approximation of Pindar's own poetic style (1–24). Not as a doomed Icarus imitating the grand Pindaric swan, but in his own preferred mode, like a bee on the banks of Tibur, Hora…
Apostrophe in Homer, Apollonius and Callimachus
This paper will discuss instances in archaic Greek and Hellenistic poetic texts of the remarkable phenomenon that occurs when the narrator of a fiction addresses a character within the narrative, a figure known as ‘apostrophe’. As this form of address obviously breaks down the Genettian ‘holy boundary’ between the extra-diegetical level of the narrator and the intra-diegetical level of the characters, apostrophe is a clear example of metalepsis i…
The Ideologies of Lived Space in Literary Texts, Ancient and Modern
In a brief essay called Des espaces autres (1984) Michel Foucault announced that after the nineteenth century, which was dominated by a historical outlook, the current century might rather be the century of space. His prophecy has been fulfilled: the end of the twentieth century witnessed a "spatial turn" in humanities which was perhaps partly due to the globalisation of our modern world. Inspired by the spatial turn in the humanities, this volum…
Between (unbearable) Lightness and Darkness
Klooster Jacqueline. Between (unbearable) Lightness and Darkness: Trends in Scholarship on Hellenistic Poetry. In: L'antiquité classique, Tome 83, 2014. pp. 159-169
Tiberius and Hellenistic Poetry
This paper investigates how Suetonius uses his representation of the literary taste of the emperor Tiberius to characterize him. Tiberius allegedly loved and imitated Hellenistic poets (Euphorion, Rhianus and Parthenius). How does this characterize him? Another question is whether this taste is modern or old-fashioned in comparison with the tastes of his contemporaries, in particular his predecessor Augustus. Finally I ask whether the fact that a…
Solon of Athens as a Precedent for Plutarch’s Authorial Persona
Solon is the subject of both a Plutarchan biography ( Solon ) and a philosophical dialogue ( Convivium septem sapientium ). In this article I argue that Plutarch creates a precedent for his authorial persona of wise but modest adviser of the ruling class under the Roman empire in the figure of the Athenian sage Solon, presumably inspired by the fact that Herodotus used Solon as a text-internal alter ego. To this end I analyze in particular how Pl…
A Speaker of Words and Doer of Deeds
Homer and the Good Ruler in Antiquity and Beyond
Homer and the Good Ruler in Antiquity and Beyond
Homer and the Good Ruler in Antiquity and Beyond focuses on the important question of how and why later authors employ Homeric poetry to reflect on various types and aspects of leadership. In a range of essays discussing generically diverse receptions of the epics of Homer in historically diverse contexts, this question is answered in various ways. Rather than considering Homer’s works as literary products, then, this volume discusses the pedagog…
De Res Gestae en de politieke autobiografie van de Late Republiek
This article places the Res Gestae of Augustus against the background of political autobiographies written during the civil wars of the Late Republic. I will look in particular at (fragments) of the autobiographical writings of Sulla, Cicero, Caesar and Augustus himself, in order to get a better grip on the specific characteristics of the Res Gestae
Writing Monarchs of the Hellenistic Age
After the Crisis
Crises resulting from war or other upheavals turn the lives of individuals upside down, and they can leave marks on a community for many years after the event. This volume aims to explore how such crises were remembered in the ancient world, and how communities reconstituted themselves after a crisis. Can crises serve as catalysts for innovation or change, and how does this work? What do crises reveal about the ‘normality’ against which they are …
Ancient Biographies of Statesmen
This chapter discusses ancient biographies of statesmen. What is the nature of ancient political biography? It is the description of the life and deeds of a significant political player of the recent or far past, individually told or in a series, with the intent of edifying the readers. This means that such a work often has an encomiastic, or at any rate evaluative cast, and may even employ certain acknowledged untruths in order to bring out the …
Studies in the Reception of Pindar in Ptolemaic Poetry by Alexandros Kampakoglou
BOOK REVIEWS/COMPTES RENDUS 323 control. The authenticity of the poems has been questioned, owing to their lack of specificity and their broad application to an Athens that over centuries debated the success of its democracy.1 But in a study of poets’ construction of social identity we can work with the poems as Solon’s. In his fr. 4 W Romney sees him using some of the same rhetorical techniques she identified in Tyrtaeus and Alcaeus—adopting an …
Inventing Origins? Aetiological Thinking in Greek and Roman Antiquity
sculpture was a part of a series titled Sculptures by the Sea, which aimed to stimulate discussion on the environmental responsibility of human beings in light of climate change. Yet, as every artwork, it produces multiple meanings, beyond the artist's original intention. The features of a technical device (here: a tap) imitate nature (here: a swan). The tap/swan seems to explore its origin (looking at the water, where a real swan should be). Fur…
The Narratology of Emotions in Ancient Literature
Emotions and Narrative in Ancient Literature and Beyond
Emotions are at the core of much ancient literature, from Achilles’ heartfelt anger in Homer’s Iliad to the pangs of love of Virgil’s Dido. This volume applies a narratological approach to emotions in a wide range of texts and genres. It seeks to analyze ways in which emotions such as anger, fear, pity, joy, love and sadness are portrayed. Furthermore, using recent insights from affective narratology, it studies ways in which ancient narratives e…
Θαλεροί τ ̓ αἰζηοί
This paper addresses the visual language of a specific set of Mycenaean wall-paintings that depict hunting scenes. Specifically, it aims to investigate the purposes and modes of their depiction. It will be argued that the recurrence of hunting scenes, and specifically boar hunting scenes, in the Late Bronze Age (LBA) Greek wall painting tradition refers to a set of common values and ideals, linked to the visualisation of an elite, or palatial ide…
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