Alison Keith
Biographic Data
| ID | 3874604 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Alison Keith |
| GIVEN NAMES | Alison |
| FAMILY NAME | Keith |
| SIGNATURE | KEITH A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Toronto |
| ORCID | 0009-0005-2118-9601 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 36 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 20 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 30 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 6 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Vergil and Elegy
Latin Love Elegy and the Dawn of the Ovidian Age: A Study of the “Versus Eporedienses” and the Latin Classics
Labor and pestis in Ovid’s Metamorphoses
This chapter treats the relationship between philosophy and mythology in Ovid’s Metamorphoses , in connection with two famous “problems” of Epicurean philosophy: labor (“toil” or “trouble”) and pestis (“plague”). Labor and pestis come together in Lucretius’ account of the rise and fall of civilization in two passages of De rerum natura , literally in Book 5 and symbolically in Book 6. Ovid recuperates this complex in three passages of the Metamor…
Greek and Latin Love: The Poetic Connection
Identities, Ethnicities and Gender in Antiquity
The question of 'identity' arises for any individual or ethnic group when they come into contact with a stranger or another people. Such contact results in the self-conscious identification of ways of life, customs, traditions, and other forms of society as one's own specific cultural features and the construction of others as characteristic of peoples from more or less distant lands, described as very 'different'. Since all societies are structu…
Virgilian Matres: From Maternal Lament to Female Sedition in the Aeneid
Vergilian Underworlds in Ovid
Maternal Conceptions in Classical Literature and Philosophy
Unlike many studies of the family in the ancient world, this volume presents readings of mothers in classical literature, including philosophical and epigraphic writing as well as poetic texts. Rather than relying on a male viewpoint, the essays offer a female perspective on the lifecycle of motherhood. Although almost all ancient authors are men, this book nevertheless aims to carefully unpack the role of the mother – not as projected by the son…
Roman Sexualities
Maternal Conceptions in Classical Literature and Philosophy
Unlike many studies of the family in the ancient world, this volume presents readings of mothers in classical literature, including philosophical and epigraphic writing as well as poetic texts. Rather than relying on a male viewpoint, the essays offer a female perspective on the lifecycle of motherhood. Although almost all ancient authors are men, this book nevertheless aims to carefully unpack the role of the mother – not as projected by the son…
The Epic Journey in Greek and Roman Literature
This volume explores journeys across time and space in Greek and Latin literature, taking as its starting point the paradigm of travel offered by the epic genre. The epic journey is central to the dynamics of classical literature, offering a powerful lens through which characters, authors, and readers experience their real and imaginary worlds. The journey informs questions of identity formation, narrative development, historical emplotment, and …
Women’s Travels in the Aeneid
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Silius’ Cumae and Its Augustan Predecessors
Hannibal’s Capuan feast, modelled on Dido’s banquet for Aeneas, is the starting point for this chapter’s exploration of Silius’ wide-ranging allusions, in diction and thematic material, to the Augustan poets, Virgil and Ovid. These predominate in the ecphrases which adorn the two songs of cosmology and erotic genealogy chosen by the Cumaean bard, Teuthras, a distinctively Hellenic lyric poet, and in the variants of the Cretan myth engraved on the…
Palatine Apollo, Augustan Architectural Ecphrasis, and Flavian Epic Intertextuality
Behind the Mask: Character and Society in Menander
This new study of Menander casts fresh light not only on the techniques of the playwright but also on the literary and historical contexts of the plays. Menander (342/1-292/1 BCE) wrote over a hundred popular comedies, several of which were adapted by Plautus and Terence. Through them, he was a major influence on Shakespeare and Molière. However, his work survived only in excerpts and quotation until some significant texts reappeared in the ninet…
Epicurean Principle and Poetic Program in Martial Epigrams 10.47-48
This study explores the philosophical contours of Martial Epigrams 10.47 and 10.48, through an examination of the literary texture of Martial's engagement with Epicurean ethics. The Epicurean stance on display in the pair is fully consistent with Martial's programmatic debt to Horace's Sermones in Epigrams 10
Epicurean Ethics in Horace: The Psychology of Satire by Sergio Yona
386 PHOENIX of this phenomenon, Mimetic Contagion advances well beyond its underlying truisms, i.e., that ancient art is often didactic and life might be seen to imitate art in the Greco-Roman world. While readers would benefit from a less paratactic presentation of the evidence and arguments, their cumulative effects are persuasive. Students of Terence’s Eunuchus may be less satisfied. Germany often engages only sweepingly with criticism of it (…
Philosophical Currents in Flavian Literature: Introduction
Historians of the early Roman empire agree that the senatorial opposition to the Neronian principate drew on philosophical principles, especially those of Stoicism, in articulating its ideological foundations. The papers collected in this special issue of Phoenix consider the spread of philosophical commitment, discussion, and debate in the Flavian period
Roman Literary Cultures
City lament in Augustan epic: Antitypes of Rome from Troy to Alba Longa
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The Homeric Hymn to Aphrodite in Ovid and Augustan Literature
This paper investigates the impact of the Homeric Hymn to Aphrodite in the Latin poetry of the Augustan age and especially that of Ovid, both in the Metamorphoses and Heroides. Ovid’s repeated allusions to the Homeric Hymn to Aphrodite, whether alone or in dynamic combination with other Homeric Hymns, suggest that he knew both the individual hymn and the collection of Homeric Hymns well. Virgilian and Horatian intertexts enrich Ovid’s allusive pl…
Roman Literary Cultures: Domestic Politics, Revolutionary Poetics, Civic Spectacle
Anthony Corbeill. Sexing the World: Grammatical Gender and Biological Sex in Ancient Rome
Anthony Corbeill has long been engaged in the anthropological investigation of the ancient Romans, and especially in the interrogation of their most alien cultural practices. His first book, Controlling Laughter: Political Humor in the Late Roman Republic (1996), explored Cicero’s theory and practice of humor in oratory from his elite metropolitan insider perspective rather than the conventional viewpoint of rhetorical handbooks. In Nature Embodi…
Cityscaping in Propertius and the Elegists
Imperial Geographies in Tibullan Elegy
This paper explores the extent and significance of “imperial geographies” in Tibullan elegy. I document the contemporary currency of the toponyms of Mediterranean geography in Tibullus’ elegies 1.3, 1.7, 2.2, and 2.3 and argue that Tibullus’ invocation of these sites is intimately correlated with both Roman imperialism and the poet’s own Callimachean commitments. By incorporating non-Latin vocabulary into its artistic matrix, Tibullus’ poetry par…
Critical Trends in Interpreting Sulpicia
Critical Trends in Interpreting Sulpicia1 Alison Keith University of Toronto [email protected] The elegies of Sulpicia have long been held to constitute an enigma in Roman literary history and the author herself an anomalous figure: the feminists' Sulpicia, a female author in a masculine literary culture;2 the philologists' Sulpicia, a young lady in a literary establishment dominated by mature men of letters;3 the historians' Sulpicia, an …
Identities, Ethnicities and Gender in Antiquity
The question of 'identity' arises for any individual or ethnic group when they come into contact with a stranger or another people. Such contact results in the self-conscious identification of ways of life, customs, traditions, and other forms of society as one's own specific cultural features and the construction of others as characteristic of peoples from more or less distant lands, described as very 'different'. Since all societies are structu…
Claudian and the Roman Epic Tradition
410 PHOENIX This well-organized collection is both intellectually rigorous and user-friendly. All quotations are translated, each chapter contains guidance for further reading, and while each contribution has a distinctive style and outlook, all are engaging and lively. By turning away from the ways that Lucilius and Horace had framed their satires, Persius and Juvenal each found new strategies to formulate their critiques of Roman society. In ou…
TWELVE. Tandem venit amor: A Roman Woman Speaks of Love
Sources and Genres in Ovid's Metamorphoses
This chapter testifies to continuing influence of Heinze's work by taking as its subject Ovid's creative exploitation of sources and genres in first five books of Metamorphoses It has often been suggested that Ovid chose to write Metamorphoses in dactylic hexameters, meter in which epic poems were composed in classical antiquity, in response to the impulse of Aeneid . Although by Ovid's day elegy was most closely associated with amatory themes, i…
Women’s Networks in Vergil’s Aeneid
Several episodes in Vergil’s Aeneid portray female characters, both divine and human, soliciting aid and/or information from other female characters. These scenes have usually been discussed in relation to Greek and Latin literary models. This study reconsiders these episodes by situating them in the context of the codes and conventions governing social relations among elite Roman women and argues that Vergil’s thematization of gender conflict at…
Critical Trends in Interpreting Sulpicia
Critical Trends in Interpreting Sulpicia1 Alison Keith University of Toronto [email protected] The elegies of Sulpicia have long been held to constitute an enigma in Roman literary history and the author herself an anomalous figure: the feminists' Sulpicia, a female author in a masculine literary culture;2 the philologists' Sulpicia, a young lady in a literary establishment dominated by mature men of letters;3 the historians' Sulpicia, an …
Sartorial Elegance and Poetic Finesse in the Sulpician Corpus
Roman Dress and the Fabrics of Roman Culture
PrefaceContributors List of Figures Abbreviations Introduction: From Costume History to Dress Studies JONATHAN EDMONDSON and ALISON KEITH PART I INVESTMENTS IN MASCULINITY * Public Dress and Social Control in Late Republican and Early Imperial Rome JONATHAN EDMONDSON*Togam virilem sumere: Coming of Age in the Roman World FANNY DOLANSKY* The Double Identity of Roman Portrait Statues: Costumes and Their Symbolism at Rome MICHAEL KOORTBOJIAN* The 'D…
Sexuality and Gender
This chapter contains sections titled: Introduction The Matrix of Poetry Homosocial Desire and the Circulation of Female Sexuality The Poetics of Gender Conclusion Further Reading
Propertius
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Medusa, Python, and Poine in Argive Religious Ritual
This chapter explores the role of female pollution in the imagery Statius deploys in connection with the ritual worship and aetiological narrative of the Argive court, with a particular focus on the intertextual relationship between the Ovidian Medusa and Python of Metamorphoses 4 and 1 respectively, and Statius’ ‘monstrous regiment’ of snakes, women, and snake–women in Thebaid 1: Python, Medusa, and Poine. It documents Statius’ sustained use of …
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 …
Claudian and the Roman Epic Tradition
410 PHOENIX This well-organized collection is both intellectually rigorous and user-friendly. All quotations are translated, each chapter contains guidance for further reading, and while each contribution has a distinctive style and outlook, all are engaging and lively. By turning away from the ways that Lucilius and Horace had framed their satires, Persius and Juvenal each found new strategies to formulate their critiques of Roman society. In ou…
Imperial Geographies in Tibullan Elegy
This paper explores the extent and significance of “imperial geographies” in Tibullan elegy. I document the contemporary currency of the toponyms of Mediterranean geography in Tibullus’ elegies 1.3, 1.7, 2.2, and 2.3 and argue that Tibullus’ invocation of these sites is intimately correlated with both Roman imperialism and the poet’s own Callimachean commitments. By incorporating non-Latin vocabulary into its artistic matrix, Tibullus’ poetry par…
Cityscaping in Propertius and the Elegists
Roman Literary Cultures
City lament in Augustan epic: Antitypes of Rome from Troy to Alba Longa
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.
The Homeric Hymn to Aphrodite in Ovid and Augustan Literature
This paper investigates the impact of the Homeric Hymn to Aphrodite in the Latin poetry of the Augustan age and especially that of Ovid, both in the Metamorphoses and Heroides. Ovid’s repeated allusions to the Homeric Hymn to Aphrodite, whether alone or in dynamic combination with other Homeric Hymns, suggest that he knew both the individual hymn and the collection of Homeric Hymns well. Virgilian and Horatian intertexts enrich Ovid’s allusive pl…
Roman Literary Cultures: Domestic Politics, Revolutionary Poetics, Civic Spectacle
Anthony Corbeill. Sexing the World: Grammatical Gender and Biological Sex in Ancient Rome
Anthony Corbeill has long been engaged in the anthropological investigation of the ancient Romans, and especially in the interrogation of their most alien cultural practices. His first book, Controlling Laughter: Political Humor in the Late Roman Republic (1996), explored Cicero’s theory and practice of humor in oratory from his elite metropolitan insider perspective rather than the conventional viewpoint of rhetorical handbooks. In Nature Embodi…
Epicurean Principle and Poetic Program in Martial Epigrams 10.47-48
This study explores the philosophical contours of Martial Epigrams 10.47 and 10.48, through an examination of the literary texture of Martial's engagement with Epicurean ethics. The Epicurean stance on display in the pair is fully consistent with Martial's programmatic debt to Horace's Sermones in Epigrams 10
Epicurean Ethics in Horace: The Psychology of Satire by Sergio Yona
386 PHOENIX of this phenomenon, Mimetic Contagion advances well beyond its underlying truisms, i.e., that ancient art is often didactic and life might be seen to imitate art in the Greco-Roman world. While readers would benefit from a less paratactic presentation of the evidence and arguments, their cumulative effects are persuasive. Students of Terence’s Eunuchus may be less satisfied. Germany often engages only sweepingly with criticism of it (…
Philosophical Currents in Flavian Literature: Introduction
Historians of the early Roman empire agree that the senatorial opposition to the Neronian principate drew on philosophical principles, especially those of Stoicism, in articulating its ideological foundations. The papers collected in this special issue of Phoenix consider the spread of philosophical commitment, discussion, and debate in the Flavian period
The Epic Journey in Greek and Roman Literature
This volume explores journeys across time and space in Greek and Latin literature, taking as its starting point the paradigm of travel offered by the epic genre. The epic journey is central to the dynamics of classical literature, offering a powerful lens through which characters, authors, and readers experience their real and imaginary worlds. The journey informs questions of identity formation, narrative development, historical emplotment, and …
Women’s Travels in the Aeneid
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.
Silius’ Cumae and Its Augustan Predecessors
Hannibal’s Capuan feast, modelled on Dido’s banquet for Aeneas, is the starting point for this chapter’s exploration of Silius’ wide-ranging allusions, in diction and thematic material, to the Augustan poets, Virgil and Ovid. These predominate in the ecphrases which adorn the two songs of cosmology and erotic genealogy chosen by the Cumaean bard, Teuthras, a distinctively Hellenic lyric poet, and in the variants of the Cretan myth engraved on the…
Palatine Apollo, Augustan Architectural Ecphrasis, and Flavian Epic Intertextuality
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