Gianpiero Rosati
Biographic Data
| ID | 1428559 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Gianpiero Rosati |
| GIVEN NAMES | Gianpiero |
| FAMILY NAME | Rosati |
| SIGNATURE | ROSATI G |
| AFFILIATIONS | Scuola Normale Superiore |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 55 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1994 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The Augustan Space
Augustus famously boasted that, having inherited a city of brick, he bequeathed a city of marble; but the transformation of the City's physical fabric is only one aspect of a pervasive concern with geography, topography and monumentality that dominates Augustan culture and – in particular – Augustan poetry and poetics. Contributors to the present volume bring a range of approaches to bear on the works of Horace, Virgil, Propertius and Ovid, and e…
A Commentary on Ovid's Metamorphoses
Comprising fifteen books and over two hundred and fifty myths, Ovid's Metamorphoses is one of the longest extant Latin poems from the ancient world and one of the most influential works in Western culture. It is an epic on desire and transgression that became a gateway to the entire world of pagan mythology and visual imagination. This, the first complete commentary in English, covers all aspects of the text – from textual interpretation to poeti…
Narcissus and Pygmalion
Narcissus or Literary Illusion
It was almost certainly Ovid who joined together the narratives of frustrated desire of Echo (in love with Narcissus) and Narcissus (in love with his own mirror image). This he did by exploiting the Latin word imago , which defines both the visual reflection and the acoustic one. The illusion produced by the reflection is the central theme in Ovid’s story, and it is also the principle on which the two stories are closely intertwined, replicating …
Gallo in Virgilio e Saffo in Ovidio
Nella Lydia pseudo-virgiliana, che è il lamento di un poeta-amante infelice, riecheggiano tessere espressive della decima ecloga virgiliana insieme ad altre provenienti dall’Epistula Sapphus di Ovidio, così come spiccano chiare analogie tematiche sul rapporto tra mondo bucolico e mondo elegiaco, e sulla difficoltà di conciliarli. Mescolando le voci elegiache del Gallo virgiliano e della Saffo di Ovidio, il testo pseudo-virgiliano (che evidentemen…
Laudes Campaniae
This chapter illustrates the ‘mythicization of everyday life’ through an analysis of Statius’ villa of Pollius Felix ( Silv. 3.1) and its seaside location where mythic figures, sea nymphs and satyrs, frolic in the waves, while Neptune and Hercules protect the villa and its fields. The mythical subjects of the frescoes and mosaics decorating the villa itself appear in Statius’ poetry to step out of their setting. In this imaginary Golden Age, Poll…
The Redemption of the Monster, or
Et Latet et Lucet
This article emphasizes the importance of Ovid’s poetry as a precedent on a theoretical level, as well as a literary model, for the ‘celebration of modernity’ and of the achievements of wealth and even luxury that are praised by Statius’ and Martial’s occasional poems. The aestheticization of everyday life that marks the Flavian elite, especially through the artefacts of material culture, is largely based on myth, that is allusively evoked by ref…
Ovid and the Epic Cycle
An Epic Without Boundaries If the adjective ‘Cyclic’ describes a kind of epic that aspires to be universal, all-inclusive, that is to say, based on an essentially anti-Homeric aesthetic, then it is difficult to imagine a more Cyclic oeuvre than Ovid's. Throughout his whole career, Ovid remained an ecumenical and inclusive writer. He is the only elegiac poet who refused to restrict himself to this single literary genre. Instead, he experimented wi…
La costruzione del mito augusteo
Il volume raccoglie una serie di contributi sulla formazione del mito di Augusto e sulla sua ricezione nella prima età imperiale
The Latin Reception of Hesiod
This contribuiton deals with the wide and lasting influence of Hesiod's work on Latin literature and culture
Matrices of Genre
Narrative Techniques and Narrative Structures in the Metamorphoses
The Ovidian poem narrates the story of a world in which many of the characters in their turn participate in offering narratives to a particular audience. The attention given by scholars to narrative techniques and the reflexive attitude of the Metamorphoses , progressing from the narratological studies developed in the wake of structuralism between the beginning of the 1970s and the first half of the 80s, has opened up new perspectives on the int…
Sabinus, the Heroides and the Poetnightingale. Some observations on the authenticity of the epistula Sapphus
Of all the works attributed to Ovid but of disputed authenticity, the epistle of Sappho to Phaon is notoriously the one which has most perplexed scholars. Most philologists at the end of the 19th century asserted the Ovidian paternity of the epistle; but in recent years the discussion has flared up once again, especially following an important contribution, tending in the opposite direction, by R. J. Tarrant, and today, above all in Anglo-America…
Momenti e forme della fortuna antica di Ovidio
E’ un luogo comune critico di ogni storia letteraria latina la grande fortuna di cui l’opera di Ovidio gode presso la posterità immediata e in tutta la poesia d’età imperiale. Alla diffusione di questo concetto ormai acquisito e consolidato non corrisponde tuttavia un sistematico lavoro di analisi che verifichi nella concretezza dei singoli testi i modi, le forme, le funzioni della presenza di Ovidio: un rapido sguardo agli studi sul Fortleben di…
Sabinus, the Heroides and the Poetnightingale. Some observations on the authenticity of the epistula Sapphus
Of all the works attributed to Ovid but of disputed authenticity, the epistle of Sappho to Phaon is notoriously the one which has most perplexed scholars. Most philologists at the end of the 19th century asserted the Ovidian paternity of the epistle; but in recent years the discussion has flared up once again, especially following an important contribution, tending in the opposite direction, by R. J. Tarrant, and today, above all in Anglo-America…
La costruzione del mito augusteo
Il volume raccoglie una serie di contributi sulla formazione del mito di Augusto e sulla sua ricezione nella prima età imperiale
Momenti e forme della fortuna antica di Ovidio
E’ un luogo comune critico di ogni storia letteraria latina la grande fortuna di cui l’opera di Ovidio gode presso la posterità immediata e in tutta la poesia d’età imperiale. Alla diffusione di questo concetto ormai acquisito e consolidato non corrisponde tuttavia un sistematico lavoro di analisi che verifichi nella concretezza dei singoli testi i modi, le forme, le funzioni della presenza di Ovidio: un rapido sguardo agli studi sul Fortleben di…
Sabinus, the Heroides and the Poetnightingale. Some observations on the authenticity of the epistula Sapphus
Of all the works attributed to Ovid but of disputed authenticity, the epistle of Sappho to Phaon is notoriously the one which has most perplexed scholars. Most philologists at the end of the 19th century asserted the Ovidian paternity of the epistle; but in recent years the discussion has flared up once again, especially following an important contribution, tending in the opposite direction, by R. J. Tarrant, and today, above all in Anglo-America…
Narrative Techniques and Narrative Structures in the Metamorphoses
The Ovidian poem narrates the story of a world in which many of the characters in their turn participate in offering narratives to a particular audience. The attention given by scholars to narrative techniques and the reflexive attitude of the Metamorphoses , progressing from the narratological studies developed in the wake of structuralism between the beginning of the 1970s and the first half of the 80s, has opened up new perspectives on the int…
Matrices of Genre
The Latin Reception of Hesiod
This contribuiton deals with the wide and lasting influence of Hesiod's work on Latin literature and culture
La costruzione del mito augusteo
Il volume raccoglie una serie di contributi sulla formazione del mito di Augusto e sulla sua ricezione nella prima età imperiale
Ovid and the Epic Cycle
An Epic Without Boundaries If the adjective ‘Cyclic’ describes a kind of epic that aspires to be universal, all-inclusive, that is to say, based on an essentially anti-Homeric aesthetic, then it is difficult to imagine a more Cyclic oeuvre than Ovid's. Throughout his whole career, Ovid remained an ecumenical and inclusive writer. He is the only elegiac poet who refused to restrict himself to this single literary genre. Instead, he experimented wi…
Et Latet et Lucet
This article emphasizes the importance of Ovid’s poetry as a precedent on a theoretical level, as well as a literary model, for the ‘celebration of modernity’ and of the achievements of wealth and even luxury that are praised by Statius’ and Martial’s occasional poems. The aestheticization of everyday life that marks the Flavian elite, especially through the artefacts of material culture, is largely based on myth, that is allusively evoked by ref…
Laudes Campaniae
This chapter illustrates the ‘mythicization of everyday life’ through an analysis of Statius’ villa of Pollius Felix ( Silv. 3.1) and its seaside location where mythic figures, sea nymphs and satyrs, frolic in the waves, while Neptune and Hercules protect the villa and its fields. The mythical subjects of the frescoes and mosaics decorating the villa itself appear in Statius’ poetry to step out of their setting. In this imaginary Golden Age, Poll…
The Redemption of the Monster, or
Gallo in Virgilio e Saffo in Ovidio
Nella Lydia pseudo-virgiliana, che è il lamento di un poeta-amante infelice, riecheggiano tessere espressive della decima ecloga virgiliana insieme ad altre provenienti dall’Epistula Sapphus di Ovidio, così come spiccano chiare analogie tematiche sul rapporto tra mondo bucolico e mondo elegiaco, e sulla difficoltà di conciliarli. Mescolando le voci elegiache del Gallo virgiliano e della Saffo di Ovidio, il testo pseudo-virgiliano (che evidentemen…
Narcissus and Pygmalion
Narcissus or Literary Illusion
It was almost certainly Ovid who joined together the narratives of frustrated desire of Echo (in love with Narcissus) and Narcissus (in love with his own mirror image). This he did by exploiting the Latin word imago , which defines both the visual reflection and the acoustic one. The illusion produced by the reflection is the central theme in Ovid’s story, and it is also the principle on which the two stories are closely intertwined, replicating …
The Augustan Space
Augustus famously boasted that, having inherited a city of brick, he bequeathed a city of marble; but the transformation of the City's physical fabric is only one aspect of a pervasive concern with geography, topography and monumentality that dominates Augustan culture and – in particular – Augustan poetry and poetics. Contributors to the present volume bring a range of approaches to bear on the works of Horace, Virgil, Propertius and Ovid, and e…
A Commentary on Ovid's Metamorphoses
Comprising fifteen books and over two hundred and fifty myths, Ovid's Metamorphoses is one of the longest extant Latin poems from the ancient world and one of the most influential works in Western culture. It is an epic on desire and transgression that became a gateway to the entire world of pagan mythology and visual imagination. This, the first complete commentary in English, covers all aspects of the text – from textual interpretation to poeti…
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