Sophia Papaioannou
Biographic Data
| ID | 3874842 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sophia Papaioannou |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sophia |
| FAMILY NAME | Papaioannou |
| SIGNATURE | PAPAIOANNOU S |
| AFFILIATIONS | 1The University of Texas at Austin |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1857-6465 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 27 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 25 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 22 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 5 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Re-Echoing Hylas
Hylas, the protagonist in a para-narrative of the Argonautic journey, is a hero who embodies a transformed epic heroism and a new poetic aesthetics in the Hellenistic era and who was a subject of particular fascination in the Latin literary tradition. Dracontius, at the end of the classical era, revisits the Hylas myth as he consciously engages with the poetics of change and narrative fluidity. Hylas, le protagoniste d'un récit parallèle au voyag…
Brill's Companion to the Reception of Ancient Rhetoric
Rivalling Song Contests and Alternative Typhonomachies in Ovid and Nonnus
The much-debated engagement of late antique Greek poetry with Latin models could have important consequences for the interaction between the two literary traditions in this period. The present chapter focusses on Ovid and Nonnus. In the song contest between the Pierides and Calliope in Ovid’s Metamorphoses 5, the Pierides focus on the gods’ transformations as they flee from Typhoeus and hide in Egypt, while Calliope’s lengthy song about Proserpin…
Later Greek Epic and the Latin Literary Tradition
The volume offers an innovative and systematic exploration of the diverse ways in which Later Greek Epic interacts with the Latin literary tradition. Taking as a starting point the premise that it is probable for the Greek epic poets of the Late Antiquity to have been familiar with leading works of Latin poetry, either in the original or in translation, the contributions in this book pursue a new form of intertextuality, in which the leading epic…
Elements of Tragedy in Flavian Epic
Comic Invective in Ancient Greek and Roman Oratory
Rhetoric and Religion in Ancient Greece and Rome
It is perhaps a truism to note that ancient religion and rhetoric were closely intertwined in Greek and Roman antiquity. Religion is embedded in socio-political, legal and cultural institutions and structures, while also being influenced, or even determined, by them. Rhetoric is used to address the divine, to invoke the gods, to talk about the sacred, to express piety and to articulate, refer to, recite or explain the meaning of hymns, oaths, pra…
Intertextuality in Seneca’s Philosophical Writings
Intertextuality in Seneca's Philosophical Writings
Reading Seneca reading Vergil
Vergil’s works comprise the most popular source of quotations in Seneca’s prose works. In Seneca’s philosophical writings the intertextual engagement with Vergil (and the Augustan poets more generally) is both explicit and accompanied by analysis more or less detailed. Intertextuality is a particularly effective way to employ irony, and in order to understand how this works one may turn to the work of another much-cited contemporary theorist of i…
Intertextuality in Seneca's Philosophical Writings
The Ancient Art of Persuasion across Genres and Topics
Persuasion has long been one of the major fields of interest for researchers across a wide range of disciplines. The present volume aims to establish a framework to enhance the understanding of the features, manifestations and purposes of persuasion across all Greek and Roman genres and in various institutional contexts. The volume considers the impact of persuasion techniques upon the audience, and how precisely they help speakers/authors achiev…
‘A Historian Utterly Without Hope’
The Theatre of Justice
The Theatre of Justice contains 17 chapters that offer a holistic view of performance in Greek and Roman oratorical and political contexts. This holistic view consists of the examination of two areas of techniques. The first one relates to the delivery of speeches and texts: gesticulation, facial expressions and vocal communication. The second area includes a wide diversity of techniques that aim at forging a rapport between the speaker and the a…
Embracing Homeric Orality in the Aeneid
Embracing Vergil’s ‘Arcadia’
The Arcadian landscape was originally developed in Vergil to transcend an actual landscape and identify with an idealized setting temptingly abstract in order to serve as a metaphor for the redesigned pastoral genre as promoted in the Eclogues. Vergil’s Arcadia as described in Eclogue 4, for the first time in Latin literature, was a construction, a literary topos and a symbol of innovative poetics, but also of Roman history and contemporary polit…
Ovid, Metamorphoses 15. 418–452
The placement of Helenus, the Trojan seer, near the end of Pythagoras’ speech in Ovid’s Metamorphoses 15, humorously comments on the Augustan projection of Rome’s predestined world conquest. In Metamorphoses 15, the philosopher Pythagoras casts himself in the light of the Vergilian Helenus. Among the various common characteristics Helenus and Pythagoras share outstanding is their metaliterary identity as conveyed in an interfusion of comprehensiv…
New Perspectives on Postclassical Comedy
PIERIDES II, Series Editors: Philip Hardie and Stratis Kyriakidis The re-emergence of Menander from the landfills of Egypt in the late-19th century and the subsequent discovery of the Bodmer Codex in the 1950s caused a sensation among scholars. After a period in which the primary editing and reconstruction of the substantially preserved plays and fragments was the main line of criticism, scholars were finally in a position to take a deep breath a…
What's in a Name? The Real Identity of Palinurus in Plautus' Curculio
The characters of Palinurus, servant of young Phaedromus, and the parasite Curculio are intertwined: the roles were likely played by a single actor. Palinurus' sharp wit is complemented by Curculio's scheming, and jointly they bring on stage the servus callidus who is otherwise missing from the "Curculio". A clever linguistic double pun on the name of Palinurus and on Curculio's pseudonym Summanus affirms this intimate relationship
Redesigning Achilles
The book is a detailed study on the structure and the topics of Ovid’s compedium of the Trojan Saga in Metamorphoses 12.1-13.622, the section also referred to as the “Little Iliad”. It explores the motives and the objectives behind the selected narrative moments from the Epic Cycle that found their way into the Ovidian version of the Trojan War. By thoroughly mastering and inspiringly refashioning a vast amount of literary material, Ovid generate…
Redesigning Achilles
The book is a detailed study on the structure and the topics of Ovid's compedium of the Saga in Metamorphoses 12.1-13.622, the section also referred to as the Little Iliad. It explores the motives and the objectives behind the selected narrative moments from the Epic Cycle that found their way into the Ovidian version of the Trojan War. By thoroughly mastering and inspiringly refashioning a vast amount of literary material, Ovid generates a syste…
Epic Succession and Dissension
This study constitutes the first modern book-length, in-depth critical analysis of Ovid, Metamorphoses 13.623–14.582. In this unit Ovid, by challenging openly the artistry of his great predecessor Vergil, redraws the parameters associated with the definition and appreciation of epic poetry. The book first introduces the methodological complexity of the Ovidian embrace strategy, and, subsequently, it reads the 'little Aeneid' closely, discussing t…
Üt non [forma] cygnorum, sic albis proxima cygnis
Sophia Papaioannou, "Ut non [forma] cygnorum, sic albis proxima cygnis": Poetology, Epic Definition, and Swan Imagery in Ovid's Metamorphoses, Phoenix, Vol. 58, No. 1/2 (Spring - Summer, 2004), pp. 49-61
Birds, flames and epic closure in Ovid, Metamorphoses 13.600–20 and 14.568–80
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Founder, Civilizer and Leader
Contrary to the two other major Augustan writers who discussed the origins of Rome, Vergil's Roman prehistory centers on the presence of Evander. An involuntary exile from the East (Greek Arcadia) who settled in Latium and instilled civilization and laws among the Italians, Evander is a duplicate of Aeneas, a cultural ancestor and a model of leadership. Aeneas is instructed by the deities of Italy (Tiberinus) to pay a visit to Pallanteum, Evander…
Vergilian Diomedes Revisited
Founder, Civilizer and Leader
Contrary to the two other major Augustan writers who discussed the origins of Rome, Vergil's Roman prehistory centers on the presence of Evander. An involuntary exile from the East (Greek Arcadia) who settled in Latium and instilled civilization and laws among the Italians, Evander is a duplicate of Aeneas, a cultural ancestor and a model of leadership. Aeneas is instructed by the deities of Italy (Tiberinus) to pay a visit to Pallanteum, Evander…
Charite's Rape, Psyche on the Rock and the Parallel Function of Marriage in Apuleius' Metamorphoses
Au-dela des interpretations philosophico-religieuse et structurale-narrative du recit de Psyche et Cupidon qui le rapprochent du roman de Lucien et des dialogues de Platon, l'A. decrit les destins de Charite et Psyche comme un renversement negatif de la fortune autour du theme du mariage. Comparant les aventures des deux heroines a la procedure actuelle du mariage dans le droit romain, l'A. montre que les deux personnages feminins emploient un vo…
Üt non [forma] cygnorum, sic albis proxima cygnis
Sophia Papaioannou, "Ut non [forma] cygnorum, sic albis proxima cygnis": Poetology, Epic Definition, and Swan Imagery in Ovid's Metamorphoses, Phoenix, Vol. 58, No. 1/2 (Spring - Summer, 2004), pp. 49-61
Charite's Rape, Psyche on the Rock and the Parallel Function of Marriage in Apuleius' Metamorphoses
Au-dela des interpretations philosophico-religieuse et structurale-narrative du recit de Psyche et Cupidon qui le rapprochent du roman de Lucien et des dialogues de Platon, l'A. decrit les destins de Charite et Psyche comme un renversement negatif de la fortune autour du theme du mariage. Comparant les aventures des deux heroines a la procedure actuelle du mariage dans le droit romain, l'A. montre que les deux personnages feminins emploient un vo…
Vergilian Diomedes Revisited
Birds, flames and epic closure in Ovid, Metamorphoses 13.600–20 and 14.568–80
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.
Founder, Civilizer and Leader
Contrary to the two other major Augustan writers who discussed the origins of Rome, Vergil's Roman prehistory centers on the presence of Evander. An involuntary exile from the East (Greek Arcadia) who settled in Latium and instilled civilization and laws among the Italians, Evander is a duplicate of Aeneas, a cultural ancestor and a model of leadership. Aeneas is instructed by the deities of Italy (Tiberinus) to pay a visit to Pallanteum, Evander…
Üt non [forma] cygnorum, sic albis proxima cygnis
Sophia Papaioannou, "Ut non [forma] cygnorum, sic albis proxima cygnis": Poetology, Epic Definition, and Swan Imagery in Ovid's Metamorphoses, Phoenix, Vol. 58, No. 1/2 (Spring - Summer, 2004), pp. 49-61
Epic Succession and Dissension
This study constitutes the first modern book-length, in-depth critical analysis of Ovid, Metamorphoses 13.623–14.582. In this unit Ovid, by challenging openly the artistry of his great predecessor Vergil, redraws the parameters associated with the definition and appreciation of epic poetry. The book first introduces the methodological complexity of the Ovidian embrace strategy, and, subsequently, it reads the 'little Aeneid' closely, discussing t…
Redesigning Achilles
The book is a detailed study on the structure and the topics of Ovid’s compedium of the Trojan Saga in Metamorphoses 12.1-13.622, the section also referred to as the “Little Iliad”. It explores the motives and the objectives behind the selected narrative moments from the Epic Cycle that found their way into the Ovidian version of the Trojan War. By thoroughly mastering and inspiringly refashioning a vast amount of literary material, Ovid generate…
Redesigning Achilles
The book is a detailed study on the structure and the topics of Ovid's compedium of the Saga in Metamorphoses 12.1-13.622, the section also referred to as the Little Iliad. It explores the motives and the objectives behind the selected narrative moments from the Epic Cycle that found their way into the Ovidian version of the Trojan War. By thoroughly mastering and inspiringly refashioning a vast amount of literary material, Ovid generates a syste…
What's in a Name? The Real Identity of Palinurus in Plautus' Curculio
The characters of Palinurus, servant of young Phaedromus, and the parasite Curculio are intertwined: the roles were likely played by a single actor. Palinurus' sharp wit is complemented by Curculio's scheming, and jointly they bring on stage the servus callidus who is otherwise missing from the "Curculio". A clever linguistic double pun on the name of Palinurus and on Curculio's pseudonym Summanus affirms this intimate relationship
New Perspectives on Postclassical Comedy
PIERIDES II, Series Editors: Philip Hardie and Stratis Kyriakidis The re-emergence of Menander from the landfills of Egypt in the late-19th century and the subsequent discovery of the Bodmer Codex in the 1950s caused a sensation among scholars. After a period in which the primary editing and reconstruction of the substantially preserved plays and fragments was the main line of criticism, scholars were finally in a position to take a deep breath a…
Ovid, Metamorphoses 15. 418–452
The placement of Helenus, the Trojan seer, near the end of Pythagoras’ speech in Ovid’s Metamorphoses 15, humorously comments on the Augustan projection of Rome’s predestined world conquest. In Metamorphoses 15, the philosopher Pythagoras casts himself in the light of the Vergilian Helenus. Among the various common characteristics Helenus and Pythagoras share outstanding is their metaliterary identity as conveyed in an interfusion of comprehensiv…
Embracing Vergil’s ‘Arcadia’
The Arcadian landscape was originally developed in Vergil to transcend an actual landscape and identify with an idealized setting temptingly abstract in order to serve as a metaphor for the redesigned pastoral genre as promoted in the Eclogues. Vergil’s Arcadia as described in Eclogue 4, for the first time in Latin literature, was a construction, a literary topos and a symbol of innovative poetics, but also of Roman history and contemporary polit…
Embracing Homeric Orality in the Aeneid
The Theatre of Justice
The Theatre of Justice contains 17 chapters that offer a holistic view of performance in Greek and Roman oratorical and political contexts. This holistic view consists of the examination of two areas of techniques. The first one relates to the delivery of speeches and texts: gesticulation, facial expressions and vocal communication. The second area includes a wide diversity of techniques that aim at forging a rapport between the speaker and the a…
‘A Historian Utterly Without Hope’
The Ancient Art of Persuasion across Genres and Topics
Persuasion has long been one of the major fields of interest for researchers across a wide range of disciplines. The present volume aims to establish a framework to enhance the understanding of the features, manifestations and purposes of persuasion across all Greek and Roman genres and in various institutional contexts. The volume considers the impact of persuasion techniques upon the audience, and how precisely they help speakers/authors achiev…
Intertextuality in Seneca’s Philosophical Writings
Intertextuality in Seneca's Philosophical Writings
Reading Seneca reading Vergil
Vergil’s works comprise the most popular source of quotations in Seneca’s prose works. In Seneca’s philosophical writings the intertextual engagement with Vergil (and the Augustan poets more generally) is both explicit and accompanied by analysis more or less detailed. Intertextuality is a particularly effective way to employ irony, and in order to understand how this works one may turn to the work of another much-cited contemporary theorist of i…
Intertextuality in Seneca's Philosophical Writings
Elements of Tragedy in Flavian Epic
Comic Invective in Ancient Greek and Roman Oratory
Rhetoric and Religion in Ancient Greece and Rome
It is perhaps a truism to note that ancient religion and rhetoric were closely intertwined in Greek and Roman antiquity. Religion is embedded in socio-political, legal and cultural institutions and structures, while also being influenced, or even determined, by them. Rhetoric is used to address the divine, to invoke the gods, to talk about the sacred, to express piety and to articulate, refer to, recite or explain the meaning of hymns, oaths, pra…
Brill's Companion to the Reception of Ancient Rhetoric
Rivalling Song Contests and Alternative Typhonomachies in Ovid and Nonnus
The much-debated engagement of late antique Greek poetry with Latin models could have important consequences for the interaction between the two literary traditions in this period. The present chapter focusses on Ovid and Nonnus. In the song contest between the Pierides and Calliope in Ovid’s Metamorphoses 5, the Pierides focus on the gods’ transformations as they flee from Typhoeus and hide in Egypt, while Calliope’s lengthy song about Proserpin…
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