Kyle Gervais
Biographic Data
| ID | 2042708 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kyle Gervais |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kyle |
| FAMILY NAME | Gervais |
| SIGNATURE | GERVAIS K |
| AFFILIATIONS | Western University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 3 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The Bones of Tibullus
This article argues for an emendation to Ovid, Amores 3.9, Ovid's lament for Tibullus. The transmitted text of line 59 would seem to present a contradiction: Ovid speculates about aliquid nisi nomen et umbra surviving death, and then proceeds in the next few lines to identify that aliquid as, precisely, Tibullus’ umbra. Ovid's original text was most likely aliquid nisi nomen et ossa , referring to a burial site and funerary inscription; with this…
Virgil’s Hero, Turnus
I examine a dialogue between the Renaissance Supplements to Virgil’s Aeneid by Pier Candido Decembrio and Maffeo Vegio. I argue that Decembrio’s short poem is not unfinished but instead provides the Iliadic ending to the Aeneid that Virgil withholds, namely a lament over Turnus’s body to match the lament over Hector at the end of Iliad 24. I then argue that Decembrio’s poem presents us with a dangerously unstable situation in Italy, dominated by …
No Cock-Up
I offer an intertextual analysis of a medieval Pseudo-Ovidian metamorphosis (found in the margins of a fourteenth-century manuscript of the Metamorphoses). This forty-four-line hexameter poem, which details the sexual misconduct of a flamen dialis with a band of Vestals and their subsequent metamorphosis into chickens, engages in sustained and sophisticated fashion with Classical Latin poetry. The poem’s many allusions not only establish its Virg…
An Interpolation in Claudian, De Raptv Proserpinae 2.343–7
In his recent monograph on textual criticism, Richard Tarrant discusses the history, problems and practices of diagnosing interpolations in Latin texts, and persuasively argues for ‘restor[ing] interpolation to the editor's armoury’. In the hopes of better arming future editors, I identify a possible interpolation in the second book of Claudian's De Raptu Proserpinae (= DRP ). The passage in question describes the celebrations in the underworld t…
Positioning Aeneas
The text of Aeneid 7.5 on the rites performed for Caieta, is suspicious for several reasons, most notably the unparalleled sedes of Aeneas. I argue that Virgil wrote at pius Aeneas sacris iam rite solutis, and that exsequiis is an intrusive gloss (evidence for which may be found in the ancient manuscripts). With sacris, Virgil seems to be suggesting cult honors as part of a complex allusion to Apollonius’ Argonautica and Callimachus’ Hecale. I al…
Thebaid
"Thebaid" published on by null.
Statius
Composed towards the end of the first century CE, Statius' Thebaid relates the myth of the 'Seven against Thebes': the assault of the seven champions of Argos on the ancient city in a bid to oust Eteocles, son of Oedipus, from his throne in favour of his brother, Polynices. Book 2 presents several key events in the build-up to the Theban war: Eteocles' haunting by the ghost of his grandfather Laius, the ill-omened weddings of Polynices and his al…
Brill's Companion to Statius
Brill’s Companion to Statius is the first companion volume to be published on arguably the most important Roman poet of the Flavian period. Thirty-four newly commissioned chapters from international experts provide a comprehensive overview of recent approaches to Statius, discuss the fundamental issues and themes of his poetry, and suggest new fruitful areas for research. All of his works are considered: the Thebaid, his longest extant epic; the …
Brill's companion to Statius
Notes on Statius, Thebaid 2
The recent edition of the Thebaid by Hall, Ritchie, and Edwards launched a successful attack on the communis opinio of a bipartite manuscript tradition, with one clearly superior family (represented by the ninth-century P [ Puteanus ] manuscript), and relatively few textual problems. In doing so, they underscored the need for renewed editorial work on the poem. Here I discuss five passages from Thebaid 2 that have not received adequate attention …
Tydeus the Hero? Intertextual Confusion in Statius, Thebaid 2
A close intertextual reading of Tydeus' monomachy in Statiusa Thebaid 2.527–723 uncovers a surprising range of self-contradictory heroic and monstrous models for his actions, drawn from throughout Latin epic. This intertextual confusion reflects a failure of traditional heroism in a poem dominated by civil war and Oedipal behaviour
Epic Visions
This wide-ranging, interdisciplinary collection explores different ways of visualising Greek and Roman epic from Homer to Statius, in both ancient and modern culture. The book presents new perspectives on Homer, Virgil, Ovid, Lucan, Valerius Flaccus and Statius, and covers the re-working of epic matter in tragedy, opera, film, late antique speeches of praise, story-boarding, sculpture and wall-painting. The chapters use a variety of methods to ad…
Statius, Thebaid 2.473
Tydeus the Hero? Intertextual Confusion in Statius, Thebaid 2
A close intertextual reading of Tydeus' monomachy in Statiusa Thebaid 2.527–723 uncovers a surprising range of self-contradictory heroic and monstrous models for his actions, drawn from throughout Latin epic. This intertextual confusion reflects a failure of traditional heroism in a poem dominated by civil war and Oedipal behaviour
Epic Visions
This wide-ranging, interdisciplinary collection explores different ways of visualising Greek and Roman epic from Homer to Statius, in both ancient and modern culture. The book presents new perspectives on Homer, Virgil, Ovid, Lucan, Valerius Flaccus and Statius, and covers the re-working of epic matter in tragedy, opera, film, late antique speeches of praise, story-boarding, sculpture and wall-painting. The chapters use a variety of methods to ad…
Statius, Thebaid 2.473
Brill's Companion to Statius
Brill’s Companion to Statius is the first companion volume to be published on arguably the most important Roman poet of the Flavian period. Thirty-four newly commissioned chapters from international experts provide a comprehensive overview of recent approaches to Statius, discuss the fundamental issues and themes of his poetry, and suggest new fruitful areas for research. All of his works are considered: the Thebaid, his longest extant epic; the …
Brill's companion to Statius
Notes on Statius, Thebaid 2
The recent edition of the Thebaid by Hall, Ritchie, and Edwards launched a successful attack on the communis opinio of a bipartite manuscript tradition, with one clearly superior family (represented by the ninth-century P [ Puteanus ] manuscript), and relatively few textual problems. In doing so, they underscored the need for renewed editorial work on the poem. Here I discuss five passages from Thebaid 2 that have not received adequate attention …
Tydeus the Hero? Intertextual Confusion in Statius, Thebaid 2
A close intertextual reading of Tydeus' monomachy in Statiusa Thebaid 2.527–723 uncovers a surprising range of self-contradictory heroic and monstrous models for his actions, drawn from throughout Latin epic. This intertextual confusion reflects a failure of traditional heroism in a poem dominated by civil war and Oedipal behaviour
Statius
Composed towards the end of the first century CE, Statius' Thebaid relates the myth of the 'Seven against Thebes': the assault of the seven champions of Argos on the ancient city in a bid to oust Eteocles, son of Oedipus, from his throne in favour of his brother, Polynices. Book 2 presents several key events in the build-up to the Theban war: Eteocles' haunting by the ghost of his grandfather Laius, the ill-omened weddings of Polynices and his al…
Thebaid
"Thebaid" published on by null.
Positioning Aeneas
The text of Aeneid 7.5 on the rites performed for Caieta, is suspicious for several reasons, most notably the unparalleled sedes of Aeneas. I argue that Virgil wrote at pius Aeneas sacris iam rite solutis, and that exsequiis is an intrusive gloss (evidence for which may be found in the ancient manuscripts). With sacris, Virgil seems to be suggesting cult honors as part of a complex allusion to Apollonius’ Argonautica and Callimachus’ Hecale. I al…
An Interpolation in Claudian, De Raptv Proserpinae 2.343–7
In his recent monograph on textual criticism, Richard Tarrant discusses the history, problems and practices of diagnosing interpolations in Latin texts, and persuasively argues for ‘restor[ing] interpolation to the editor's armoury’. In the hopes of better arming future editors, I identify a possible interpolation in the second book of Claudian's De Raptu Proserpinae (= DRP ). The passage in question describes the celebrations in the underworld t…
No Cock-Up
I offer an intertextual analysis of a medieval Pseudo-Ovidian metamorphosis (found in the margins of a fourteenth-century manuscript of the Metamorphoses). This forty-four-line hexameter poem, which details the sexual misconduct of a flamen dialis with a band of Vestals and their subsequent metamorphosis into chickens, engages in sustained and sophisticated fashion with Classical Latin poetry. The poem’s many allusions not only establish its Virg…
Virgil’s Hero, Turnus
I examine a dialogue between the Renaissance Supplements to Virgil’s Aeneid by Pier Candido Decembrio and Maffeo Vegio. I argue that Decembrio’s short poem is not unfinished but instead provides the Iliadic ending to the Aeneid that Virgil withholds, namely a lament over Turnus’s body to match the lament over Hector at the end of Iliad 24. I then argue that Decembrio’s poem presents us with a dangerously unstable situation in Italy, dominated by …
The Bones of Tibullus
This article argues for an emendation to Ovid, Amores 3.9, Ovid's lament for Tibullus. The transmitted text of line 59 would seem to present a contradiction: Ovid speculates about aliquid nisi nomen et umbra surviving death, and then proceeds in the next few lines to identify that aliquid as, precisely, Tibullus’ umbra. Ovid's original text was most likely aliquid nisi nomen et ossa , referring to a burial site and funerary inscription; with this…
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