John F Miller
Biographic Data
| ID | 230988 |
|---|---|
| NAME | John F Miller |
| GIVEN NAMES | John F |
| FAMILY NAME | Miller |
| SIGNATURE | MILLER J F |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Virginia |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6628-530X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 30 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 21 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 28 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1969 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Peter Heslin
Tracking Hermes, Pursuing Mercury
Of all the divinities of classical antiquity, the Greek Hermes (= Roman Mercury) is the most versatile, enigmatic, complex, and ambiguous. The runt of the Olympian litter, he is the god of lies and tricks, yet also kindly to mankind and bringer of luck; his functions embrace both the marking of boundaries and their transgression, commerce, lucre, and theft, rhetoric, and practical jokes; he also plays the role of mediator between all realms of hu…
Ovid’s Bacchic Helmsman and Homeric Hymn 7
This paper investigates Ovid’s telling of the story of Dionysus and the Tyrrhenian pirates from Homeric Hymn 7, which in Metamorphoses 3 he folds into his version of Pentheus vs Bacchus at Thebes. The elegant contaminatio of models extends beyond Euripides’ Bacchae and Hymn 7, for Ovid appeals as well to subsequent versions of Dionysus and the pirates, most likely traceable to lost Hellenistic sources. Overall, Ovid refashions the Hymn’s narrativ…
A Handbook to the Reception of Ovid
"A Handbook to the Reception of Ovid presents more than 30 original essays written by leading scholars revealing the rich diversity of critical engagement with Ovid's poetry that spans the Western tradition from antiquity to the present day. Offers innovative perspectives on Ovid's poetry and its reception from antiquity to the present day. Features contributions from more than 30 leading scholars in the Humanities. Introduces familiar and unfami…
Virgil's Salian Hymn to Hercules
The lengthy ceremonies in Hercules' honor that Evander and his Arcadians perform at the prehistoric Ara Maxima in Pallanteum reach a climax with the hymn that the Salian priests sing at Aeneid 8.285–305. This paper analyzes that carmen, with attention to hymnic structure, intertextuality, and the larger contexts of Virgil's epic narrative, Roman religion, and Augustan culture. The Salian hymn to Hercules is a remarkable passage, the only hymnic t…
Breaking the rules
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Vertis in Usum
The Cambridge Companion to Latin Love Elegy
Latin love elegy is one of the most important poetic genres in the Augustan era, also known as the golden age of Roman literature. This volume brings together leading scholars from Australia, Europe and North America to present and explore the Greek and Roman backdrop for Latin love elegy, the individual Latin love elegists (both the canonical and the non-canonical), their poems and influence on writers in later times. The book is designed as an …
The Roman Wedding
Latin Historiography and Poetry in the Early Empire
Décrire et Comprendre Le Sacrifice. Les Réflexions Des Romains Sur Leur Propre Religion à Partir De La Littérature Antiquaire – By Francesca Prescendi
Latin Historiography and Poetry in the Early Empire
This book, a sequel to Clio and the Poets (Brill 2002), takes as its point of departure Quintilian's statement that 'historiography is very close to the poets': it examines not only how verse interfaces with historical texts but also how first-century AD Roman historians engage with issues and patterns of thought central to contemporary poetry and with specific poetic texts. Included are substantive discussions of a wide range of authors, notably…
Primus Amor Phoebi
This paper explores how Ovid’s announcement of Daphne as Ovid’s first love, and thus of the first of the numerous erotic stories in the Metamorphoses , is richly inscribed with allusions to literary beginnings—namely the openings of the Iliad , Odyssey , and Aeneid , the start of the war in Vergil’s epic, the transition from Delian to Pythian story in the Homeric Hymn to Apollo , the beginning of Propertius’ first book of elegies, and (most famou…
The Fasti
The Fasti poem's political stance has dominated recent criticism. By incorporating into the fasti new feriae celebrating anniversaries of his achievements and honors, Augustus, like Julius Caesar before him, firmly fixed his mark on the calendar, as on everything else in Rome's public life. The Augustan poets' engagement with Callimachus which has occupied scholarship in the past few decades finds its fullest expression in Ovid's Fasti , a quinte…
Ovid on the Augustan Palatine (Tristia 3.1)
Triumphus in Palatio
Triumphus in Palatio John F. Miller As one of the many tokens of its symbolic centrality in Roman culture, the Capitoline Hill received the triumphator at the end of his ceremonial return to Rome. For centuries generals who had been granted a triumphus concluded the elaborate sacral procession through the city with a sacrifice at the Temple of Jupiter Optimus Maximus, the god most intimately associated with this religious institution.1 The strong…
Horace's Pindaric Apollo ( Odes 3.4.60–4)
Descende caelo , Horace's ode 3.4, challenges the reader with an elaborate Pindaric architecture embracing seemingly disparate elements. After an opening invocation (1–8), the poet discourses at length on how the Muses protect him (9–36), then abruptly notes that those goddesses also nourished Octavian after his recent military campaign (37–42). This breaks off into a composite Titanomachy/Gigantomachy (42–64), followed by a set of maxims (65–8) …
Meter, Matter, and Manner in Ovid, "Ars Amatoria" 1.89-100
The Memories of Ovid's Pythagoras
L'A. etudie l'utilisation faite par Ovide dans «Les Metamorphoses» de la doctrine pythagoricienne de la metempsychose, ou Pythagore lui-meme raconte les souvenirs qu'a son âme de ses vies anterieures
Vergil's "Georgics" and the Traditions of Ancient Epic
In this important and original new book, Joseph Farrell argues that there is a detailed and extensive program of literary allusion in Vergil's Georgics, moving basically from Hesiod and Aratus in the first book, to Lucretius in the middle two, to Homer in the fourth. This program involves what he calls analytic allusion, namely a reconstruction or interpretation of the texts alluded to; and, he contends, the direction of the allusion, moving from…
The Shield of Argive Abas at Aeneid 3.286
Aeneas' stopover at Actium has struck most readers as an Augustan interlude in the odyssey of Aeneid 3. The scene is conspicuous among the other episodes in the trip for its brevity and for the fact that it does not advance the action toward the Trojan exiles' Italian goal. Instead the accent falls on prefiguring actions of Aeneas' distinguished descendant, Octavian, after he achieved victory over Antony at the same site in 31 B.C. Where the futu…
Propertius' Hymn to Bacchus and Contemporary Poetry
Orpheus as Owl and Stag
IN HIS ROUGH OUTLINE of the Ovidian narrative of Orpheus' death at the hands of the Thracian women, Franz Bomer (on Met. 11.6) astutely discerns a triple function in the double simile at Met. 11.24-27: 1) retardation and 2) intensification (erster H6hepunkt) of the narrative; 3) preparation for the ensuing attacks by the raving women.1 Yet exactly how the two similes perform these functions deserves to be explored more fully. A close reading of t…
Propertius 3.2 and Horace
Callimachus and the Ars amatoria
Latin Historiography and Poetry in the Early Empire
This book, a sequel to Clio and the Poets (Brill 2002), takes as its point of departure Quintilian's statement that 'historiography is very close to the poets': it examines not only how verse interfaces with historical texts but also how first-century AD Roman historians engage with issues and patterns of thought central to contemporary poetry and with specific poetic texts. Included are substantive discussions of a wide range of authors, notably…
Triumphus in Palatio
Triumphus in Palatio John F. Miller As one of the many tokens of its symbolic centrality in Roman culture, the Capitoline Hill received the triumphator at the end of his ceremonial return to Rome. For centuries generals who had been granted a triumphus concluded the elaborate sacral procession through the city with a sacrifice at the Temple of Jupiter Optimus Maximus, the god most intimately associated with this religious institution.1 The strong…
Tracking Hermes, Pursuing Mercury
Of all the divinities of classical antiquity, the Greek Hermes (= Roman Mercury) is the most versatile, enigmatic, complex, and ambiguous. The runt of the Olympian litter, he is the god of lies and tricks, yet also kindly to mankind and bringer of luck; his functions embrace both the marking of boundaries and their transgression, commerce, lucre, and theft, rhetoric, and practical jokes; he also plays the role of mediator between all realms of hu…
The Memories of Ovid's Pythagoras
L'A. etudie l'utilisation faite par Ovide dans «Les Metamorphoses» de la doctrine pythagoricienne de la metempsychose, ou Pythagore lui-meme raconte les souvenirs qu'a son âme de ses vies anterieures
Orpheus as Owl and Stag
IN HIS ROUGH OUTLINE of the Ovidian narrative of Orpheus' death at the hands of the Thracian women, Franz Bomer (on Met. 11.6) astutely discerns a triple function in the double simile at Met. 11.24-27: 1) retardation and 2) intensification (erster H6hepunkt) of the narrative; 3) preparation for the ensuing attacks by the raving women.1 Yet exactly how the two similes perform these functions deserves to be explored more fully. A close reading of t…
Science and Religion
In his “Theology and Falsification” Professor Antony Flew challenges the sophisticated religious believer to state under what conceivable occurrences he would concede that there really is no God Who loves mankind: ‘Just what would have to happen not merely (morally and wrongly) to tempt but also, logically and rightly, to entitle us to say “God does not love us” or even “God does not exist”? I therefore put...the simple central questions, “What w…
Beiträge zur Wissenssoziologie, Beiträge zur Religionssoziologie / Contributions to the Sociology of Knowledge Contributions to the Sociology of Religion
The pastorate and New Age healing
Ethnology
Callimachus and the Augustan Aetiological Elegy
Propertius 3.2 and Horace
Callimachus and the Ars amatoria
Orpheus as Owl and Stag
IN HIS ROUGH OUTLINE of the Ovidian narrative of Orpheus' death at the hands of the Thracian women, Franz Bomer (on Met. 11.6) astutely discerns a triple function in the double simile at Met. 11.24-27: 1) retardation and 2) intensification (erster H6hepunkt) of the narrative; 3) preparation for the ensuing attacks by the raving women.1 Yet exactly how the two similes perform these functions deserves to be explored more fully. A close reading of t…
Propertius' Hymn to Bacchus and Contemporary Poetry
Vergil's "Georgics" and the Traditions of Ancient Epic
In this important and original new book, Joseph Farrell argues that there is a detailed and extensive program of literary allusion in Vergil's Georgics, moving basically from Hesiod and Aratus in the first book, to Lucretius in the middle two, to Homer in the fourth. This program involves what he calls analytic allusion, namely a reconstruction or interpretation of the texts alluded to; and, he contends, the direction of the allusion, moving from…
The Shield of Argive Abas at Aeneid 3.286
Aeneas' stopover at Actium has struck most readers as an Augustan interlude in the odyssey of Aeneid 3. The scene is conspicuous among the other episodes in the trip for its brevity and for the fact that it does not advance the action toward the Trojan exiles' Italian goal. Instead the accent falls on prefiguring actions of Aeneas' distinguished descendant, Octavian, after he achieved victory over Antony at the same site in 31 B.C. Where the futu…
The Memories of Ovid's Pythagoras
L'A. etudie l'utilisation faite par Ovide dans «Les Metamorphoses» de la doctrine pythagoricienne de la metempsychose, ou Pythagore lui-meme raconte les souvenirs qu'a son âme de ses vies anterieures
Meter, Matter, and Manner in Ovid, "Ars Amatoria" 1.89-100
Horace's Pindaric Apollo ( Odes 3.4.60–4)
Descende caelo , Horace's ode 3.4, challenges the reader with an elaborate Pindaric architecture embracing seemingly disparate elements. After an opening invocation (1–8), the poet discourses at length on how the Muses protect him (9–36), then abruptly notes that those goddesses also nourished Octavian after his recent military campaign (37–42). This breaks off into a composite Titanomachy/Gigantomachy (42–64), followed by a set of maxims (65–8) …
Triumphus in Palatio
Triumphus in Palatio John F. Miller As one of the many tokens of its symbolic centrality in Roman culture, the Capitoline Hill received the triumphator at the end of his ceremonial return to Rome. For centuries generals who had been granted a triumphus concluded the elaborate sacral procession through the city with a sacrifice at the Temple of Jupiter Optimus Maximus, the god most intimately associated with this religious institution.1 The strong…
The Fasti
The Fasti poem's political stance has dominated recent criticism. By incorporating into the fasti new feriae celebrating anniversaries of his achievements and honors, Augustus, like Julius Caesar before him, firmly fixed his mark on the calendar, as on everything else in Rome's public life. The Augustan poets' engagement with Callimachus which has occupied scholarship in the past few decades finds its fullest expression in Ovid's Fasti , a quinte…
Ovid on the Augustan Palatine (Tristia 3.1)
Primus Amor Phoebi
This paper explores how Ovid’s announcement of Daphne as Ovid’s first love, and thus of the first of the numerous erotic stories in the Metamorphoses , is richly inscribed with allusions to literary beginnings—namely the openings of the Iliad , Odyssey , and Aeneid , the start of the war in Vergil’s epic, the transition from Delian to Pythian story in the Homeric Hymn to Apollo , the beginning of Propertius’ first book of elegies, and (most famou…
Latin Historiography and Poetry in the Early Empire
Décrire et Comprendre Le Sacrifice. Les Réflexions Des Romains Sur Leur Propre Religion à Partir De La Littérature Antiquaire – By Francesca Prescendi
Latin Historiography and Poetry in the Early Empire
This book, a sequel to Clio and the Poets (Brill 2002), takes as its point of departure Quintilian's statement that 'historiography is very close to the poets': it examines not only how verse interfaces with historical texts but also how first-century AD Roman historians engage with issues and patterns of thought central to contemporary poetry and with specific poetic texts. Included are substantive discussions of a wide range of authors, notably…
The Roman Wedding
Breaking the rules
A summary is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content.
Vertis in Usum
The Cambridge Companion to Latin Love Elegy
Latin love elegy is one of the most important poetic genres in the Augustan era, also known as the golden age of Roman literature. This volume brings together leading scholars from Australia, Europe and North America to present and explore the Greek and Roman backdrop for Latin love elegy, the individual Latin love elegists (both the canonical and the non-canonical), their poems and influence on writers in later times. The book is designed as an …
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