Raphael Lyne
Biographic Data
| ID | 3681595 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Raphael Lyne |
| GIVEN NAMES | Raphael |
| FAMILY NAME | Lyne |
| SIGNATURE | LYNE R |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Cambridge |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1741-0124 |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 36 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 168 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 36 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1970 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Signal and noise in Skelton
Predictive processing is one of the most significant emerging schools of thought in cognitive science.With its emphasis on anticipation and modifications as the result of 'prediction error', it has much to offer literary criticism, which itself has much to offer in return.This essay explores the particular pertinence of predictive processing to poetic form and to satire, with reference to three poems by John Skelton: Ware the Hauke (c.1505), Spek…
The Individual ‘We’ Narrator
The prevailing assumption in literary studies tends to be that a ‘we’ narrative voice is either that of an individual purporting to speak for a group, or that of a collective of people whose perspectives have coalesced into a unified one. Recent work on social agency across the cognitive humanities suggests another way of understanding what might be conveyed by such a ‘we’. Social cognition research shows that individuals can have their capacitie…
Tragic Cognition in Shakespeare’s “Othello”
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Memory and Intertextuality in Renaissance Literature
Shakespeare, Perception and Theory of Mind
This essay explores the second ghost scene in Hamlet as an experiment in social cognition. It turns to scientific experiments on the relationship between vision and theory of mind, and to Shakespearean moments where audiences' experience of the visual world of a play is shaped by what characters say they are seeing. The 'Dover Cliff' scene in King Lear is considered as an example of an audience's constructive demeanour, rather than of the decepti…
Shakespeare, Rhetoric and Cognition
Classical Literary Careers and their Reception
This is a wide-ranging collection of essays on ancient Roman literary careers and their reception in later European literature, with contributions by leading experts. Starting from the three major Roman models for constructing a literary career - Virgil (the rota Vergiliana), Horace and Ovid - the volume then looks at alternative and counter-models in antiquity: Propertius, Juvenal, Cicero and Pliny. A range of post-antique responses to the ancie…
Intertextuality and the female voice after the Heroides
Recent criticism of Ovid's Heroides has tried to attend properly to the female voices within the work. Effrosini Spentzou, in particular, has proposed a ‘lecture féminine’ that recognizes intertextuality as a male network working at the expense of women's expression. This essay explores the interaction of female speakers and intertextuality in early modern post‐Ovidian writing (by Donne, and Beaumont and Fletcher, with some reference to Shakespea…
Vergil and the Politics of War (1983)
This paper uses Roman theory on war to show a gap between Aeneas' ideals and practice in the warfare of the Aeneid, and suggests important truths about imperialism and war.
Collected papers on Latin poetry
Introduction 1. Propertius and Cynthia. Elegy I.3 2. Critical Appreciations. I. Propertius III.10 3. Propertius I.5 4. Scilicet et tempus veniet ... Virgil, Georgics I.463-514 5. The Neoteric Poets 6. Seruitium amoris 7. Introduction to Virgil: The Eclogues, the Georgics, translated by C. Day Lewis 8. Virgil and the Politics of War 9. Lavinia's Blush: Virgil, Aeneid 12.64-70 10. Ovid's Metamorphoses, Callimachus, and l'art pour l'art 11. Virgil's…
Epic interactions
This collection of essays surveys the epic tradition from the 8th century BC to the 19th century of our era. Chapters focus on: Homer and the oral epic tradition; Homer in his religious context; Herodotus and Homer; Hellenistic epic; Virgil in his literary context; Virgil in his political-cultural context, and more
Structure and Allusion in Horace's Book of Epodes
This article, which was substantively complete at the time of Professor Lyne's sad death, takes a close look at Horace Epodes 13. Lyne displays the complex intertextual and generic resonances of the poem, which is crossed between iambic and lyric ancestry. The poem also functions as a major structural element in the book of Epodes , since it appears to signal a closure which does not happen, and which is wittily picked up in the following poem's …
Horace Odes Book 1 and the Alexandrian Edition of Alcaeus
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The Cambridge Companion to Ovid
Ovid was one of the greatest writers of classical antiquity, and arguably the single most influential ancient poet for post-classical literature and culture. In this Cambridge Companion, chapters by leading authorities from Europe and North America discuss the backgrounds and contexts for Ovid, the individual works, and his influence on later literature and art. Coverage of essential information is combined with exciting critical approaches. This…
Notes on Catullus
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Introductory poems in Propertius
I wish to argue primarily that Propertius 2.12 introduced the poet's original third book, ‘Book 2b’, (Section III). On the way I examine Propertius' use of his various addressees (Section I), and I discuss strategies in his indisputably introductory poem 1.1 (Section II). Similarities of strategy discernible in 2.12 head my argument that 2.12 was like 1.1 an introductory poem. The question of addressees in introductory poems raises the topic of P…
Words and the Poet
Readers familiar with Dr Lyne's last book on Virgil will know what to expect. There is the same clarity of expression and layout, the same care to make his use of special terminology unambiguous, the same passionate belief, to use his own words, that "nothing in Vergil is without purpose of explanation". Dr Lyne undoubtedly makes the reader think and sharpens his perception of Virgil; he imparts much interesting, factual information in a clear, o…
Propertius 2.10 and 11 and the Structure of Books ‘2A’ and ‘2B’
The manuscripts of Propertius present us with a single, massive ‘Book 2’ over thirteen hundred and sixty lines long. Like many before me, I am convinced that this ‘Book 2’ is a mistake of transmission and actually preserves the remnants of two ancient books. In this article I identify and discuss the poem which I believe closed the first of the ancient books; for convenience's sake we can call this book ‘Book 2a’. I shall be saying something, too…
Propertius and Tibullus
This paper sets out in section I the most useful evidence we possess for the dating of Propertius Book 1, Tibullus Book 1, and Propertius Books 2a and 2b.2 The evidence squares with a sequence of publication: Prop. 1, Tibull. 1, Prop. 2a, Prop. 2b, which is what, in my view, literary considerations suggest. The most important, or at least most interesting, of these considerations are the signs of response and counterresponse between the two poets…
Love and death
In one form or another an elevated, pleasure-transcending view of love is common, we might say natural. For readers of Latin poetry Catullus is perhaps the most impressive spokesman. In many respects, of course, Catullus is special. His particular values and choice of terminology, in his time and situation, mark him out from his crowd; in the Roman world indeed, ‘whole love’, perhaps rather its utterance, is hard to document before him. But a bel…
Some Recent Perspectives on Horace
Vergil's Aeneid
I think we have to accept that the term intertextuality serves a purpose. One of the terms it allows us to dispense with, allusion , has its disadvantages. Up until recently I was happy with ‘allusion’: Vergil ‘alludes’ to Homer. The term was time-honoured, and, surely, unproblematical. Unproblematical, and not, so far as it went, and in the right hands, unsubtle. One meant that Vergil was not just using his source text (or his significant source…
Further Voices in Vergil Aeneid
The Aeneid can strike one as a relatively conventional epic. It may seem an objective heroic tale of Rome's beginnings, unshocking in tone and substance, indeed (and more particularly) patriotic and inspiring. Vergil designed it so that it might read in this way. This is one `voice` that he wished us to hear. We may call it the epic voice. But there are `further voices`. Imagery and other stylistic devices are exploited to insinuate ramifying mea…
Words and the Poet. Characteristic Techniques of Style in Vergil's Aeneid
Further Voices in Virgil's Aeneid
The Dating of the Ciris
Once we have accepted that the Ciris stems from neither Virgil nor Gallus, but was written by a post-Virgilian poetaster, the obvious task for us is to try and formulate some more specific idea of the date of the poem. I think that it has been sufficiently proved that the Ciris is not only post-Virgilian, but post-Ovidian in origin, including as it does unquestionable imitations of that author. But this, to date, is really as far as we have got. …
Propertius and Tibullus
This paper sets out in section I the most useful evidence we possess for the dating of Propertius Book 1, Tibullus Book 1, and Propertius Books 2a and 2b.2 The evidence squares with a sequence of publication: Prop. 1, Tibull. 1, Prop. 2a, Prop. 2b, which is what, in my view, literary considerations suggest. The most important, or at least most interesting, of these considerations are the signs of response and counterresponse between the two poets…
Servitium Amoris
In this paper I shall be examining the nature and provenance of what many people state or imply to be a traditional, conventional, even trite figure of speech: the Augustan Elegists' figure of the ‘seruitium amoris’’. It is indeed a very frequent image (so to call it for the moment) in the Elegists. As. F. O. Copley says: ‘Of all the figures used by the Roman elegists, probably none is quite so familiar as that of the lover as slave.’’ But freque…
Virgil's Aeneid and the Tradition of Hellenistic Poetry
Collected papers on Latin poetry
Introduction 1. Propertius and Cynthia. Elegy I.3 2. Critical Appreciations. I. Propertius III.10 3. Propertius I.5 4. Scilicet et tempus veniet ... Virgil, Georgics I.463-514 5. The Neoteric Poets 6. Seruitium amoris 7. Introduction to Virgil: The Eclogues, the Georgics, translated by C. Day Lewis 8. Virgil and the Politics of War 9. Lavinia's Blush: Virgil, Aeneid 12.64-70 10. Ovid's Metamorphoses, Callimachus, and l'art pour l'art 11. Virgil's…
The Neoteric Poets
In 50 B.C. Cicero writes to Atticus as follows (Att. 7.2.1): ‘Brundisium uenimus VII Kalend. Decembr. usi tua felicitate nauigandi; ita belle nobis flauit ab Epiro lenissimus Onchesmites . hunc si cui boles pro tuo uendito.’ The antonomasia, the euphonic sibilance, and the mannered rhythm (the five-word line with fourth foot homodyne; the spondaic fifth foot) are all prominent in Cicero's hexameter. The line is a humorously concocted example of a…
Vergil and the Politics of War
The Romans had various ways of justifying their imperial aims and methods, some high-minded, some less so. We find in particular that they could give honourable and satisfying explanations of their aims and methods in war. Here for example is Cicero: quare suscipienda quidem bella sunt ob earn causam, ut sine iniuria in pace uiuatur; parta autem uictoria conseruandi ii, qui non crudeles in bello, non immanes fuerunt, ut maiores nostri Tusculanos,…
Love and death
In one form or another an elevated, pleasure-transcending view of love is common, we might say natural. For readers of Latin poetry Catullus is perhaps the most impressive spokesman. In many respects, of course, Catullus is special. His particular values and choice of terminology, in his time and situation, mark him out from his crowd; in the Roman world indeed, ‘whole love’, perhaps rather its utterance, is hard to document before him. But a bel…
Shakespeare, Perception and Theory of Mind
This essay explores the second ghost scene in Hamlet as an experiment in social cognition. It turns to scientific experiments on the relationship between vision and theory of mind, and to Shakespearean moments where audiences' experience of the visual world of a play is shaped by what characters say they are seeing. The 'Dover Cliff' scene in King Lear is considered as an example of an audience's constructive demeanour, rather than of the decepti…
Epic interactions
This collection of essays surveys the epic tradition from the 8th century BC to the 19th century of our era. Chapters focus on: Homer and the oral epic tradition; Homer in his religious context; Herodotus and Homer; Hellenistic epic; Virgil in his literary context; Virgil in his political-cultural context, and more
Horace Odes Book 1 and the Alexandrian Edition of Alcaeus
An abstract 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
Introductory poems in Propertius
I wish to argue primarily that Propertius 2.12 introduced the poet's original third book, ‘Book 2b’, (Section III). On the way I examine Propertius' use of his various addressees (Section I), and I discuss strategies in his indisputably introductory poem 1.1 (Section II). Similarities of strategy discernible in 2.12 head my argument that 2.12 was like 1.1 an introductory poem. The question of addressees in introductory poems raises the topic of P…
Words and the Poet
Readers familiar with Dr Lyne's last book on Virgil will know what to expect. There is the same clarity of expression and layout, the same care to make his use of special terminology unambiguous, the same passionate belief, to use his own words, that "nothing in Vergil is without purpose of explanation". Dr Lyne undoubtedly makes the reader think and sharpens his perception of Virgil; he imparts much interesting, factual information in a clear, o…
Propertius and Cynthia
In this article, I shall refer to the standard commentaries on Propertius by the name of the editor alone. I include under this heading Shackleton Bailey's Propertiana (CUP, 1954), whose comments on 1. 3 are on pp. 11–14. Another work I mention now, honoris causa , which will be referred to by name of author alone, is M. W. Edwards, ‘Intensification of Meaning in Propertius and Others’ ( T.A.P.A. XCII (1961), 128–44). Edwards well illustrates and…
The Dating of the Ciris
Once we have accepted that the Ciris stems from neither Virgil nor Gallus, but was written by a post-Virgilian poetaster, the obvious task for us is to try and formulate some more specific idea of the date of the poem. I think that it has been sufficiently proved that the Ciris is not only post-Virgilian, but post-Ovidian in origin, including as it does unquestionable imitations of that author. But this, to date, is really as far as we have got. …
Selections from Catullus
Ciris 89–91
The most popular emendation has been Heinsius's somnia sunt . I find the tone of this misplaced (cf. F. Leo, Ausg. Kl. Sckriften , ii. 118–19). Thepoet has since 66 laboriously catalogued variant aetiologies of Scylla monstrum . It is inappropriate that he should immediately follow this with the statement that all of them were ‘fancy’ or ‘nonsense’. For a start, we may note that the summation quidquid et ut quisque ... presumably includes the ver…
The Neoteric Poets
In 50 B.C. Cicero writes to Atticus as follows (Att. 7.2.1): ‘Brundisium uenimus VII Kalend. Decembr. usi tua felicitate nauigandi; ita belle nobis flauit ab Epiro lenissimus Onchesmites . hunc si cui boles pro tuo uendito.’ The antonomasia, the euphonic sibilance, and the mannered rhythm (the five-word line with fourth foot homodyne; the spondaic fifth foot) are all prominent in Cicero's hexameter. The line is a humorously concocted example of a…
Ciris. A Poem Attributed to Vergil. Edited with an Introduction and Commentary
Servitium Amoris
In this paper I shall be examining the nature and provenance of what many people state or imply to be a traditional, conventional, even trite figure of speech: the Augustan Elegists' figure of the ‘seruitium amoris’’. It is indeed a very frequent image (so to call it for the moment) in the Elegists. As. F. O. Copley says: ‘Of all the figures used by the Roman elegists, probably none is quite so familiar as that of the lover as slave.’’ But freque…
Ciris
Preface Bibliography and abbreviations Introduction Text and critical apparatus Ciris Commentary Indexes
Lavinia's Blush
In the Aeneid actions are consistent with character and psychology, indeed indicative of character and psychology. This statement has, I think, general if not universal truth. At any rate, one should not hastily assume otherwise.
Vergil and the Politics of War
The Romans had various ways of justifying their imperial aims and methods, some high-minded, some less so. We find in particular that they could give honourable and satisfying explanations of their aims and methods in war. Here for example is Cicero: quare suscipienda quidem bella sunt ob earn causam, ut sine iniuria in pace uiuatur; parta autem uictoria conseruandi ii, qui non crudeles in bello, non immanes fuerunt, ut maiores nostri Tusculanos,…
Further Voices in Virgil's Aeneid
Virgil's Aeneid and the Tradition of Hellenistic Poetry
Words and the Poet. Characteristic Techniques of Style in Vergil's Aeneid
Further Voices in Vergil Aeneid
The Aeneid can strike one as a relatively conventional epic. It may seem an objective heroic tale of Rome's beginnings, unshocking in tone and substance, indeed (and more particularly) patriotic and inspiring. Vergil designed it so that it might read in this way. This is one `voice` that he wished us to hear. We may call it the epic voice. But there are `further voices`. Imagery and other stylistic devices are exploited to insinuate ramifying mea…
Vergil's Aeneid
I think we have to accept that the term intertextuality serves a purpose. One of the terms it allows us to dispense with, allusion , has its disadvantages. Up until recently I was happy with ‘allusion’: Vergil ‘alludes’ to Homer. The term was time-honoured, and, surely, unproblematical. Unproblematical, and not, so far as it went, and in the right hands, unsubtle. One meant that Vergil was not just using his source text (or his significant source…
Some Recent Perspectives on Horace
Words and the Poet
Readers familiar with Dr Lyne's last book on Virgil will know what to expect. There is the same clarity of expression and layout, the same care to make his use of special terminology unambiguous, the same passionate belief, to use his own words, that "nothing in Vergil is without purpose of explanation". Dr Lyne undoubtedly makes the reader think and sharpens his perception of Virgil; he imparts much interesting, factual information in a clear, o…
Propertius 2.10 and 11 and the Structure of Books ‘2A’ and ‘2B’
The manuscripts of Propertius present us with a single, massive ‘Book 2’ over thirteen hundred and sixty lines long. Like many before me, I am convinced that this ‘Book 2’ is a mistake of transmission and actually preserves the remnants of two ancient books. In this article I identify and discuss the poem which I believe closed the first of the ancient books; for convenience's sake we can call this book ‘Book 2a’. I shall be saying something, too…
Propertius and Tibullus
This paper sets out in section I the most useful evidence we possess for the dating of Propertius Book 1, Tibullus Book 1, and Propertius Books 2a and 2b.2 The evidence squares with a sequence of publication: Prop. 1, Tibull. 1, Prop. 2a, Prop. 2b, which is what, in my view, literary considerations suggest. The most important, or at least most interesting, of these considerations are the signs of response and counterresponse between the two poets…
Love and death
In one form or another an elevated, pleasure-transcending view of love is common, we might say natural. For readers of Latin poetry Catullus is perhaps the most impressive spokesman. In many respects, of course, Catullus is special. His particular values and choice of terminology, in his time and situation, mark him out from his crowd; in the Roman world indeed, ‘whole love’, perhaps rather its utterance, is hard to document before him. But a bel…
Introductory poems in Propertius
I wish to argue primarily that Propertius 2.12 introduced the poet's original third book, ‘Book 2b’, (Section III). On the way I examine Propertius' use of his various addressees (Section I), and I discuss strategies in his indisputably introductory poem 1.1 (Section II). Similarities of strategy discernible in 2.12 head my argument that 2.12 was like 1.1 an introductory poem. The question of addressees in introductory poems raises the topic of P…
The Cambridge Companion to Ovid
Ovid was one of the greatest writers of classical antiquity, and arguably the single most influential ancient poet for post-classical literature and culture. In this Cambridge Companion, chapters by leading authorities from Europe and North America discuss the backgrounds and contexts for Ovid, the individual works, and his influence on later literature and art. Coverage of essential information is combined with exciting critical approaches. This…
Notes on Catullus
An abstract 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
Structure and Allusion in Horace's Book of Epodes
This article, which was substantively complete at the time of Professor Lyne's sad death, takes a close look at Horace Epodes 13. Lyne displays the complex intertextual and generic resonances of the poem, which is crossed between iambic and lyric ancestry. The poem also functions as a major structural element in the book of Epodes , since it appears to signal a closure which does not happen, and which is wittily picked up in the following poem's …
Horace Odes Book 1 and the Alexandrian Edition of Alcaeus
An abstract 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
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