Luke Roman
Biographic Data
| ID | 1428497 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Luke Roman |
| GIVEN NAMES | Luke |
| FAMILY NAME | Roman |
| SIGNATURE | ROMAN L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Memorial |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 27 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 10 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Coryciana
This article explores the relation between poetry, place, and the concept of epigram as site-specific writing in the Coryciana. Published in 1524 in an edition assembled by Blosius Palladius, this multi-author, predominantly epigrammatic collection in honour of the humanist and apostolic protonotary Johann Goritz focuses on two prime sites within the city of Renaissance Rome: Goritz's column chapel in Sant'Agostino, and his vineyard-villa near Tr…
Pietro Bembo on Etna
202 PHOENIX occasioned the loss of antiquities “in far larger quantities than had supposedly happened in the days of idols, treasure, and the fanatical actions of eastern barbarians” (347). Greenhalgh is also the only author in the volume to link the pre- and early modern destruction of antiquities with the modern and contemporary depredations of looters and collectors. While there are many outstanding essays in this volume, the whole is even mor…
Statius and Martial
Poetic Autonomy in Ancient Rome
In this book Luke Roman offers a major new approach to the study of ancient Roman poetry. A key term in the modern interpretation of art and literature, 'aesthetic autonomy' refers to the idea that the work of art belongs to a realm of its own, separate from ordinary activities and detached from quotidian interests. While scholars have often insisted that aesthetic autonomy is an exclusively modern concept and cannot be applied to other historica…
First-Person Poetry and the Autonomist Turn
‘First-Person Poetry and the Autonomist Turn: Lucilius, Catullus, and Cicero’s Consulatus suus’ considers three instances of self-representational poetry in late republican Rome, exploring the relation between poetic self-representation and Roman criteria of worthwhile activity. While for the satirist Lucilius (second century BC) poetic autonomy is not a primary impulse, his use of first-person verse as medium of satiric libertas (‘freedom’, ‘fre…
Materialities of Use and Subordination
‘Materialities of Use and Subordination: The challenge of the autonomist legacy’ examines how the idea of poetic heteronomy comes into its own as a major organizing concept in poetry of the early imperial period. Persius, Statius, Martial, and Juvenal are all self-conscious heirs to the Augustan self-representational tradition, which includes autonomy among its defining themes, yet, for several reasons, autonomist rhetoric cannot be simply reprod…
Autarky, Withdrawal, Confinement
‘Autarky, Withdrawal, Confinement: The autonomist niche in early Augustan poetry’ examines Roman works of first-person poetry written at the close of the republic and the beginning of the Augustan principate. In this transitional period, the Lucilian and Catullan model of invective libertas (‘freedom’, ‘free speech’) makes way for a very different conception of libertas grounded in the security of high-level patronage and the leisure afforded by …
Martial and the City of Rome
This essay examines the representation of the city of Rome in Martial's Epigrams, and specifically, his references to urban topography. The city is an insistent and vivid presence in Martial's Epigrams to a degree unparalleled in Roman poetry. He fashions a Rome that is more relentlessly sordid, irregular and jagged in texture, and overtly dissonant in its juxtapositions than the literary cities of his poetic predecessors. This new urban emphasis…
The Politics of Desire
The Representation of Literary Materiality in Martial's Epigrams
Around the world, covers have become advertisements for their books. The dignity that characterizes something self-contained, lasting, hermetic — something that absorbs the reader and closes the lid over him, as it were, the way the cover of the book closes on the text — has been set aside as inappropriate to the times. The book sidles up to the reader; it no longer presents itself as existing in itself, but rather as existing for something other…
The Representation of Literary Materiality in Martial's Epigrams
Around the world, covers have become advertisements for their books. The dignity that characterizes something self-contained, lasting, hermetic — something that absorbs the reader and closes the lid over him, as it were, the way the cover of the book closes on the text — has been set aside as inappropriate to the times. The book sidles up to the reader; it no longer presents itself as existing in itself, but rather as existing for something other…
Martial and the City of Rome
This essay examines the representation of the city of Rome in Martial's Epigrams, and specifically, his references to urban topography. The city is an insistent and vivid presence in Martial's Epigrams to a degree unparalleled in Roman poetry. He fashions a Rome that is more relentlessly sordid, irregular and jagged in texture, and overtly dissonant in its juxtapositions than the literary cities of his poetic predecessors. This new urban emphasis…
The Representation of Literary Materiality in Martial's Epigrams
Around the world, covers have become advertisements for their books. The dignity that characterizes something self-contained, lasting, hermetic — something that absorbs the reader and closes the lid over him, as it were, the way the cover of the book closes on the text — has been set aside as inappropriate to the times. The book sidles up to the reader; it no longer presents itself as existing in itself, but rather as existing for something other…
The Politics of Desire
Martial and the City of Rome
This essay examines the representation of the city of Rome in Martial's Epigrams, and specifically, his references to urban topography. The city is an insistent and vivid presence in Martial's Epigrams to a degree unparalleled in Roman poetry. He fashions a Rome that is more relentlessly sordid, irregular and jagged in texture, and overtly dissonant in its juxtapositions than the literary cities of his poetic predecessors. This new urban emphasis…
Poetic Autonomy in Ancient Rome
In this book Luke Roman offers a major new approach to the study of ancient Roman poetry. A key term in the modern interpretation of art and literature, 'aesthetic autonomy' refers to the idea that the work of art belongs to a realm of its own, separate from ordinary activities and detached from quotidian interests. While scholars have often insisted that aesthetic autonomy is an exclusively modern concept and cannot be applied to other historica…
First-Person Poetry and the Autonomist Turn
‘First-Person Poetry and the Autonomist Turn: Lucilius, Catullus, and Cicero’s Consulatus suus’ considers three instances of self-representational poetry in late republican Rome, exploring the relation between poetic self-representation and Roman criteria of worthwhile activity. While for the satirist Lucilius (second century BC) poetic autonomy is not a primary impulse, his use of first-person verse as medium of satiric libertas (‘freedom’, ‘fre…
Materialities of Use and Subordination
‘Materialities of Use and Subordination: The challenge of the autonomist legacy’ examines how the idea of poetic heteronomy comes into its own as a major organizing concept in poetry of the early imperial period. Persius, Statius, Martial, and Juvenal are all self-conscious heirs to the Augustan self-representational tradition, which includes autonomy among its defining themes, yet, for several reasons, autonomist rhetoric cannot be simply reprod…
Autarky, Withdrawal, Confinement
‘Autarky, Withdrawal, Confinement: The autonomist niche in early Augustan poetry’ examines Roman works of first-person poetry written at the close of the republic and the beginning of the Augustan principate. In this transitional period, the Lucilian and Catullan model of invective libertas (‘freedom’, ‘free speech’) makes way for a very different conception of libertas grounded in the security of high-level patronage and the leisure afforded by …
Statius and Martial
Pietro Bembo on Etna
202 PHOENIX occasioned the loss of antiquities “in far larger quantities than had supposedly happened in the days of idols, treasure, and the fanatical actions of eastern barbarians” (347). Greenhalgh is also the only author in the volume to link the pre- and early modern destruction of antiquities with the modern and contemporary depredations of looters and collectors. While there are many outstanding essays in this volume, the whole is even mor…
Coryciana
This article explores the relation between poetry, place, and the concept of epigram as site-specific writing in the Coryciana. Published in 1524 in an edition assembled by Blosius Palladius, this multi-author, predominantly epigrammatic collection in honour of the humanist and apostolic protonotary Johann Goritz focuses on two prime sites within the city of Renaissance Rome: Goritz's column chapel in Sant'Agostino, and his vineyard-villa near Tr…
Art (8 works) · Classical Antiquity Studies (7 works) · Law (7 works) · Political science (7 works) · History (6 works) · Literature (6 works) · Philosophy (6 works) · Politics (5 works) · Aesthetics (4 works) · Archaeology (4 works)