Michael Dewar
Biographic Data
| ID | 3619646 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Michael Dewar |
| GIVEN NAMES | Michael |
| FAMILY NAME | Dewar |
| SIGNATURE | DEWAR M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Calgary |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 29 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 17 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 26 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 3 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1987 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
The Search for the Self in Statius' Thebaid
Reviewed by: The Search for the Self in Statius' Thebaid: Identity, Intertext and the Sublime by Jean-Michel Hulls Michael Dewar The Search for the Self in Statius' Thebaid: Identity, Intertext and the Sublime. By Jean-Michel Hulls. Berlin and Boston: De Gruyter (Trends in Classics 116). 2021. Pp. xlv, 275. The title of this book is admirably clear and informative, and the three nouns in the subtitle provide a good guide to the preoccupations of …
The Ruler's House
BOOK REVIEWS/COMPTES RENDUS 177 the self-reflexive way Pliny minutely adapts (and inverts, sometimes polemically) parts of Institutio 10. The usual suspects (Cicero, Seneca the Elder, and Tacitus) are also present in the discussion. Chapters Nine, “Docendo discitur” (323–352), and Ten, “Reflections of an Author” (353–406), focus on ethical rather than rhetorical matters and perfectly display how Pliny’s imitation of the Institutio contributes to …
The Flavian Epics and the Neoterics
Lost Literature
Historians are particularly out of luck. While, even without Saleius Bassus, epic poetry from the Flavian period is unusually well preserved, history is among the genres that have suffered most from the processes of transmission. The most signal loss appears to be Fabius Rusticus. Another outstanding loss in the genre is the missing portion of Tacitus’ Historiae. Historians have lost the tragedies of Scaevus Memor and the Cato and Medea of Matern…
Vitruvius
Watching From Afar
Uses of new media in the context of the Arab Spring have attracted scholarly attention from a wide array of disciplines. Amid the anecdotes and speculation, most of the available empirical research in this area has examined how new media have enabled participants and spectators to produce and circulate protest-related content. In contrast, the current study investigates patterns of consumption of Arab Spring-related content using a unique data se…
Lucan
Spinning the Trabea
The Equine Cuckoo
Latin Language and Latin Culture from Ancient to Modern Times
Multi-Ethnic Armies in Virgil, Lucan, and Claudian
At In Rufinum 2.101–19, Claudian presents Stilicho as leading a multi-ethnic army that unites in perfect harmony the troops of the two previously divided halves of the Empire. Much of the power of the propaganda comes from a skilful combination of two earlier epic models, Virgil and Lucan. In Virgil, however, the diverse nations presented as showing allegiance to Augustus are conquered peoples, whereas Stilicho commands an army in which nationali…
Siquid Habent Veri Vatum Praesagia
Roman poets adapted the alien meters of Greek to their own language through a long but accelerating process of trial and error. It would be a gross overstatement to say that Ovid created the rules, but in a sense he gave them the summa manus that he claimed he had not been able to give his great epic. At any rate, significant experimentation thereafter practically comes to an end. Ovid was the first major poet to fall foul of the new political re…
Ideology in Cold Blood
Is Lucan's epic Civil War an example of ideological poetry at its most flagrant, or is it a work that desparingly proclaims the meaninglessness of ideology? Shadi Bartsch offers an answer to this split debate on the Roman poet's magnum opus. Reflecting on the disintegration of the Roman Republic in the wake of the civil war that began in 49BC, Lucan (writing during the reign of Nero) recounts that fateful conflict with a strangely ambiguous portr…
Claudian
Horace 2000
Laying it on with a Trowel
The extravagant, not to say fulsome, praise showered upon Nero in Lucan's proem to his De Bello Civili (1.33–66) tends to divide scholars neatly into two factions. In the blue corner are those for whom it is ‘obviously’ sarcastic or ironic in some degree, whether they consider it intended to be circulated privately or understood only by a small group of initiates, or else see it as actually being designed to offend the princeps. In the red we fin…
Hannibal and Alaric in the Later Poems of Claudian
Corippus On the Wakefulness of Poets and Emperors
In the fourth book of his In Laudem Iustini Augusti Minons Corippus turns to the ceremonies marking the new emperor's assumption of the consulship on the first of January, 566. When the morning of the auspicious day arrives the palace officials convey a great quantity of gold and silver to a large hall. Next, the emperor makes his way there and takes his seat on a splendid throne from which he receives the loyal obeisance of the senate (4. 1-141)…
Statius
Statius
Thebaid
"Thebaid" published on by null.
Nero on the Disappearing Tigris
This is the only undisputed fragment of Nero's poetry which is longer than a single line. It is preserved for us by the scholiast on Lucan 3.261, who gives us the additional piece of information that it belongs to Nero's ‘first book’. It is overwhelmingly likely that this refers to the first book of Nero‘s epic Troica , his most famous work and the only one, as far as we know, to have been comprised of several books. 1 Since the fragment is the m…
The Fall of Eutropius
The eunuch Eutropius began his ascendancy over Arcadius, Emperor of the East, in late 395, following the murder of the Praetorian Prefect Rufinus. Eutropius, despite his physical shortcomings, ‘sullied the Fasti’ by holding the consulate in 399. By the end of that same year, however, collusion between the barbarian general Gainas and Tribigild, leader of a rebellion of Ostrogoths in Asia Minor, resulted in Eutropius’ fall from power. He was exile…
Octavian and Orestes Again
In an earlier paper it was argued that in the famous chariot simile at the end of the first Georgic, Virgil imitates a passage from the Choephoroi of Aeschylus describing the onset of Orestes' madness. It was also suggested that Virgil may have been intentionally drawing a parallel between Octavian and the son of Agamemnon. Orestes avenged his father by murdering his mother Clytemnestra, but in so doing he deepened the guilt that afflicted Argos …
Silio Italico
Laying it on with a Trowel
The extravagant, not to say fulsome, praise showered upon Nero in Lucan's proem to his De Bello Civili (1.33–66) tends to divide scholars neatly into two factions. In the blue corner are those for whom it is ‘obviously’ sarcastic or ironic in some degree, whether they consider it intended to be circulated privately or understood only by a small group of initiates, or else see it as actually being designed to offend the princeps. In the red we fin…
Watching From Afar
Uses of new media in the context of the Arab Spring have attracted scholarly attention from a wide array of disciplines. Amid the anecdotes and speculation, most of the available empirical research in this area has examined how new media have enabled participants and spectators to produce and circulate protest-related content. In contrast, the current study investigates patterns of consumption of Arab Spring-related content using a unique data se…
Octavian and Orestes in the Finale of the First Georgic
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Lucan
Hannibal and Alaric in the Later Poems of Claudian
Nero on the Disappearing Tigris
This is the only undisputed fragment of Nero's poetry which is longer than a single line. It is preserved for us by the scholiast on Lucan 3.261, who gives us the additional piece of information that it belongs to Nero's ‘first book’. It is overwhelmingly likely that this refers to the first book of Nero‘s epic Troica , his most famous work and the only one, as far as we know, to have been comprised of several books. 1 Since the fragment is the m…
A Note on Statius, Thebaid 9.120f
Hippomedon is stoutly defending the body of his fallen comrade Tydeus against a mass of Thebans who press him hard: there is a break in the attack allowing him to return fire while his allies Alcon and Idas with their troops come to his aid. It is grammatically possible that iaculantum could be taken with tela , but style and word order make this most unlikely
Mezentiu's Remorse
tantane me tenuit vivendi, nate, voluptas, ut pro me hostili paterer succedere dextrae, quern genui? tuane haec genitor per vulnera servor morte tua vivens? heu, nunc misero mihi demum exitium infelix, nunc alte vulnus adactum
Turning the Tables
Of the four surviving fragments of Varius' De Morte1 perhaps the most widely discussed has been the first: Vendidit hie Latium populis agrosque Quiritum eripuit, fixit leges pretio atque refixit This is imitated by Virgil, whose Sibyl says of a soul in Tartarus: Vendidit hie auro patriam dominumque potentem imposuit; fixit leges pretio atque refixit Most commentators, quoting Cic. Phil. 12.5.12, connect both passages exclusively with Antony, and …
Octavian and Orestes in the Finale of the First Georgic
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The Fall of Eutropius
The eunuch Eutropius began his ascendancy over Arcadius, Emperor of the East, in late 395, following the murder of the Praetorian Prefect Rufinus. Eutropius, despite his physical shortcomings, ‘sullied the Fasti’ by holding the consulate in 399. By the end of that same year, however, collusion between the barbarian general Gainas and Tribigild, leader of a rebellion of Ostrogoths in Asia Minor, resulted in Eutropius’ fall from power. He was exile…
Octavian and Orestes Again
In an earlier paper it was argued that in the famous chariot simile at the end of the first Georgic, Virgil imitates a passage from the Choephoroi of Aeschylus describing the onset of Orestes' madness. It was also suggested that Virgil may have been intentionally drawing a parallel between Octavian and the son of Agamemnon. Orestes avenged his father by murdering his mother Clytemnestra, but in so doing he deepened the guilt that afflicted Argos …
Silio Italico
Statius
Thebaid
"Thebaid" published on by null.
Nero on the Disappearing Tigris
This is the only undisputed fragment of Nero's poetry which is longer than a single line. It is preserved for us by the scholiast on Lucan 3.261, who gives us the additional piece of information that it belongs to Nero's ‘first book’. It is overwhelmingly likely that this refers to the first book of Nero‘s epic Troica , his most famous work and the only one, as far as we know, to have been comprised of several books. 1 Since the fragment is the m…
Statius
Corippus On the Wakefulness of Poets and Emperors
In the fourth book of his In Laudem Iustini Augusti Minons Corippus turns to the ceremonies marking the new emperor's assumption of the consulship on the first of January, 566. When the morning of the auspicious day arrives the palace officials convey a great quantity of gold and silver to a large hall. Next, the emperor makes his way there and takes his seat on a splendid throne from which he receives the loyal obeisance of the senate (4. 1-141)…
Laying it on with a Trowel
The extravagant, not to say fulsome, praise showered upon Nero in Lucan's proem to his De Bello Civili (1.33–66) tends to divide scholars neatly into two factions. In the blue corner are those for whom it is ‘obviously’ sarcastic or ironic in some degree, whether they consider it intended to be circulated privately or understood only by a small group of initiates, or else see it as actually being designed to offend the princeps. In the red we fin…
Hannibal and Alaric in the Later Poems of Claudian
Claudian
Horace 2000
Ideology in Cold Blood
Is Lucan's epic Civil War an example of ideological poetry at its most flagrant, or is it a work that desparingly proclaims the meaninglessness of ideology? Shadi Bartsch offers an answer to this split debate on the Roman poet's magnum opus. Reflecting on the disintegration of the Roman Republic in the wake of the civil war that began in 49BC, Lucan (writing during the reign of Nero) recounts that fateful conflict with a strangely ambiguous portr…
Siquid Habent Veri Vatum Praesagia
Roman poets adapted the alien meters of Greek to their own language through a long but accelerating process of trial and error. It would be a gross overstatement to say that Ovid created the rules, but in a sense he gave them the summa manus that he claimed he had not been able to give his great epic. At any rate, significant experimentation thereafter practically comes to an end. Ovid was the first major poet to fall foul of the new political re…
Multi-Ethnic Armies in Virgil, Lucan, and Claudian
At In Rufinum 2.101–19, Claudian presents Stilicho as leading a multi-ethnic army that unites in perfect harmony the troops of the two previously divided halves of the Empire. Much of the power of the propaganda comes from a skilful combination of two earlier epic models, Virgil and Lucan. In Virgil, however, the diverse nations presented as showing allegiance to Augustus are conquered peoples, whereas Stilicho commands an army in which nationali…
Latin Language and Latin Culture from Ancient to Modern Times
Spinning the Trabea
The Equine Cuckoo
Lucan
Watching From Afar
Uses of new media in the context of the Arab Spring have attracted scholarly attention from a wide array of disciplines. Amid the anecdotes and speculation, most of the available empirical research in this area has examined how new media have enabled participants and spectators to produce and circulate protest-related content. In contrast, the current study investigates patterns of consumption of Arab Spring-related content using a unique data se…
Vitruvius
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