Denis Feeney
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 3874917 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Denis Feeney |
| PRENOMES | Denis |
| SOBRENOME | Feeney |
| ASSINATURA | FEENEY D |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Princeton University |
| VERIFICADO | Não |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 30 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 261 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 29 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1983 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2021 |
| ÍNDICE H | 7 |
Literature and Religion at Rome
Explorations in Latin Literature
Denis Feeney is one of the most distinguished scholars of Latin literature and Roman culture in the world of the last half-century. These two volumes conveniently collect and present afresh all his major papers, covering a wide range of topics and interests. Ancient epic is a major focus, followed by Latin lyric, historiography and elegy. Ancient literary criticism and the technology of the book are recurrent themes. Many papers address the probl…
Carthage and Rome
Beyond Greek
Ancient Roman authors are firmly established in the Western canon, and yet the birth of Latin literature was far from inevitable. The cultural flourishing that eventually produced the Latin classics was one of the strangest events in history, as Denis Feeney demonstrates in this bold revision
Catullus 61
Similes are a prominent feature of epithalamia, with poets comparing the bride and groom to characters from myth or to elements of the natural world. Catullus wrote two epithalamia (61 and 62), together with two other poems with marked epithalamian characteristics (64 and 68). This paper examines the question of why similes are so important to the genre of epithalamium, concentrating on Catullus 61, which is particularly rich in its deployment of…
Chronography
Chronography was a crucial part of Greek and Roman scholarship and historiography, since the ancient world had no one calendar or universally shared system of charting past time.
Representation and the materiality of the book in the polymetrics
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Catullus
In this book, a sequel to Traditions and Contexts in the Poetry of Horace (Cambridge University Press, 2002), ten leading Latin scholars provide specially commissioned in-depth discussions of the poetry of Catullus, one of ancient Rome's most favourite and best loved poets. Some chapters focus on the collection as a whole and the interrelationship of various poems; others deal with intertextuality and translation and Catullus' response to his Gre…
Fathers and Sons
This chapter investigates the historiographical traditions concerning the patrician family of the Manlii Torquati, and the use made of those traditions by the two Roman poets Catullus and Horace. The family of the Manlii Torquati are marked in Roman historiography for the template of a father killing his son, and the historians treat the family as a hard test case for the survival of aristocratic tradition: how can a family perpetuate a family tr…
Doing the Numbers
This chapter argues that Shakespeare, in Antony and Cleopatra, combines a novel perspective on what was at stake in Rome just after Caesar's assassination with an ability to shape civil war into the austerely satisfying trope of number play. Shakespeare's perspective on Roman history, Feeney shows, is not hampered by the Romans' own (Augustan and later) teleology: he presents the history of the Republic as highly contingent.
Crediting Pseudolus
Robert Fagles (1933–2008)
Robert Fagles (1933–2008) Denis Feeney Robert Fagles, the Arthur Marks ’19 Professor of Comparative Literature Emeritus at Princeton University, died in Princeton on March 26, 2008, after a long illness which he faced with great courage. A renowned translator, whose versions of Greek tragedy, Homer, and Vergil have been international bestsellers, Fagles was, in addition, a beloved and inspirational teacher and a gifted administrator, the founding…
Caesar's Calendar
The ancient Romans changed more than the map of the world when they conquered so much of it; they altered the way historical time itself is marked and understood. In this brilliant, erudite, and exhilarating book Denis Feeney investigates time and its contours as described by the ancient Romans, first as Rome positioned itself in relation to Greece and then as it exerted its influence as a major world power. Feeney welcomes the reader into a worl…
Two Virgilian Acrostics
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The Beginnings of a Literature in Latin
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Vna CVM Scriptore Meo
On the first day of fighting at Philippi, the watchword and battlecry for the tryannicides' army was the inspiring ‘Libertas’. It is probable, however, that the 22-year-old Horace did not hear it – as if in anticipation of the confused failure to come, the tickets with the watchword were still being passed along to the officers when Brutus' legions spontaneously hurled themselves against the forces of Caesar opposite. Returning to Rome after the …
Traditions and Contexts in the Poetry of Horace
This book explores the whole range of the output of an exceptionally versatile and innovative poet, from the Epodes to the literary-critical Epistles. Distinguished scholars of diverse background and interests introduce readers to a variety of critical approaches to Horace and to Latin poetry. Close attention is paid throughout to the actual text of Horace, with many of the chapters focusing on reading a single poem. These close readings are then…
‘Shall I Compare Thee…?’
‘Probably the most extraordinary poem in Latin,’ as Lyne describes it, this audacious piece of brilliance has attracted legions of critics. Here no attempt will be made to address each contested individual issue in the hallowed catalogue of notorious problems contained in the scholarly register on ‘Catullus 68’; nor will I chase the chimaera of a ‘full’ reading. Rather, I propose to adopt a partial and oblique approach to this most oblique of poe…
Apollonius’ Argonautica
Even if he had never written a line of poetry, Apollonius’ name would still be known to us, for he was one of the leading scholars of his day, and headed the library at Alexandria for some dozen years (probably from around 260 to 247 BCE). He published re searches on Homer, Hesiod, Archilochus, and Antimachus, and modern studies have documented the way in which his learning became part of the fabric of his great epic, the Argonautica. If he was v…
Epic of History
Already in Chapter 1, with the discussion of critical attitudes to the historical status of Homer’s narrative, and in Chapter 3, with Naevius and Ennius, we have brushed against the problems which arise when the gods participate in the epic narrative of historical events. Here, as we come to the two historical epics from our pe riod which survive m non-fragmentary form, it becomes necessary to engage with these issues directly. An investigation i…
Vergil’s Aeneid
I sing of arms and a man, who first from the shores of Troy, an exile by fate came to Italy, tu Lavinium; and he was much buffetted both on land and sea by the violence of the gods above, because of the unforgetful anger of savage Juno; he suffered moch in war as well, until he could found his city and bear his gods into Latium: from this origin come the Latin race, the Alban fathers, and the walls of high Rome. Muse, recount to me the reasons wh…
From Greece to Rome
The Romans’ creation of a national literary culture in response to the literary culture of the Greeks is a phenomenon which fascin ates and baffles us as it fascinated and baffled them, a phenom enon which invites enquiry from many directions. Here we have no more than three aims: first (and most modestly), to give a sketch of how the Romans took over Greek literature, together with the apparatus of scholarship which had become an inextricable el…
Ovid’s Metamorphoses
Ovid’s Metamorphoses afford us something of an intermezzo. The very appearance of a chapter on this poem in a book on epic is it self an issue—a fact which the poet would no doubt have found highly diverting. From its first lines the poem continually con fronts us with the problem of the extent to which, and the ways in which, it is and is not epic. There is no obligation here to enter into a full account of the poem from the viewpoint of its con…
The Critics
The aim of the first chapter is to give a picture of the intellectual environment inhabited by the epic poets of the classical tradition, and their readers, as they confronted the problems of the gods in epic. The task is rendered difficult by the obvious fact that this was no homogeneous environment, but a contested and evolving one, of extreme complexity, itself always being transformed by the contribution of each successive poet. It is, furthe…
Epic of Myth
The last two epics of our study treat subjects from the time before the heroes of Homer. The voyage of the Argonauts is already a famous topic of poetry in the Odyssey. Circe speaks to Odysseus of ‘Argo, which is in the minds of al!’ (Od. 12. 70). On our present evidence, this was the myth that first broke history’s gnp on Roman epic after one hundred and fifty years, when Vergil’s contemporary, Varro of Atax, adapted Apollonius’ Argonautica into…
The Gods in Epic
The role of the gods in the classical world's epic tradition has been the subject of controversy since ancient times, and many modern readers continue to find their presence a source of frustration. Although the problem of the gods in some individual works has been intensely discussed, this is the first study to be devoted to the classical literary tradition as a whole, together with the apparatus of critical scholarship which was part of that tr…
The Taciturnity of Aeneas
Aeneas' speech of defence before Dido ( A. 4. 333–61) is the longest and most controversial he delivers. Although by no means typical, it can open up some revealing perspectives over the rest of the poem. The exchange between the two, having as its kernel a dispute over obligations and responsibilities, requires some words of context. The early part of the book describes the establishment of a liaison between the refugee leaders, while revealing …
The Beginnings of a Literature in Latin
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Stat Magni Nominis Umbra.’ Lucan on the Greatness of Pompeius Magnus
At the age of twenty-five, Gn. Pompeius acquired the spectacular cognomen of Magnus. According to Plutarch ( Pomp. 13), the name came either from the acclamation of his army in Africa, or at the instigation of Sulla. According to Livy, the practice began from the toadying of Pompeius' circle (‘ab adsentatione familiar’, 30.45.6). The cognomen invited play. At the Ludi Apollinares of July 59, Cicero tells us, the actor Diphilus won ‘a dozen encore…
The Reconciliations of Juno
The reconciliation between Juno and Jupiter at the end of the Aeneid (12. 791–842) forms the cap to the divine action of the poem. The scene is conventionally regarded as the resolution of the heavenly discord that has prevailed since the first book; in particular, it is normal to see here a definitive transformation of Juno, as she abandons, her enmity once and for all, committing herself wholeheartedly to the Roman cause. So G. Lieberg, for exa…
Two Virgilian Acrostics
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Crediting Pseudolus
Catullus 61
Similes are a prominent feature of epithalamia, with poets comparing the bride and groom to characters from myth or to elements of the natural world. Catullus wrote two epithalamia (61 and 62), together with two other poems with marked epithalamian characteristics (64 and 68). This paper examines the question of why similes are so important to the genre of epithalamium, concentrating on Catullus 61, which is particularly rich in its deployment of…
The Taciturnity of Aeneas
Aeneas' speech of defence before Dido ( A. 4. 333–61) is the longest and most controversial he delivers. Although by no means typical, it can open up some revealing perspectives over the rest of the poem. The exchange between the two, having as its kernel a dispute over obligations and responsibilities, requires some words of context. The early part of the book describes the establishment of a liaison between the refugee leaders, while revealing …
The Reconciliations of Juno
The reconciliation between Juno and Jupiter at the end of the Aeneid (12. 791–842) forms the cap to the divine action of the poem. The scene is conventionally regarded as the resolution of the heavenly discord that has prevailed since the first book; in particular, it is normal to see here a definitive transformation of Juno, as she abandons, her enmity once and for all, committing herself wholeheartedly to the Roman cause. So G. Lieberg, for exa…
Stat Magni Nominis Umbra.’ Lucan on the Greatness of Pompeius Magnus
At the age of twenty-five, Gn. Pompeius acquired the spectacular cognomen of Magnus. According to Plutarch ( Pomp. 13), the name came either from the acclamation of his army in Africa, or at the instigation of Sulla. According to Livy, the practice began from the toadying of Pompeius' circle (‘ab adsentatione familiar’, 30.45.6). The cognomen invited play. At the Ludi Apollinares of July 59, Cicero tells us, the actor Diphilus won ‘a dozen encore…
C. Renger, Aeneas und Turnus. Analyse einer Feindschaft (Studien zur klassischen Philologie xi). Frankfurt, etc
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Apollonius’ Argonautica
Even if he had never written a line of poetry, Apollonius’ name would still be known to us, for he was one of the leading scholars of his day, and headed the library at Alexandria for some dozen years (probably from around 260 to 247 BCE). He published re searches on Homer, Hesiod, Archilochus, and Antimachus, and modern studies have documented the way in which his learning became part of the fabric of his great epic, the Argonautica. If he was v…
Epic of History
Already in Chapter 1, with the discussion of critical attitudes to the historical status of Homer’s narrative, and in Chapter 3, with Naevius and Ennius, we have brushed against the problems which arise when the gods participate in the epic narrative of historical events. Here, as we come to the two historical epics from our pe riod which survive m non-fragmentary form, it becomes necessary to engage with these issues directly. An investigation i…
Vergil’s Aeneid
I sing of arms and a man, who first from the shores of Troy, an exile by fate came to Italy, tu Lavinium; and he was much buffetted both on land and sea by the violence of the gods above, because of the unforgetful anger of savage Juno; he suffered moch in war as well, until he could found his city and bear his gods into Latium: from this origin come the Latin race, the Alban fathers, and the walls of high Rome. Muse, recount to me the reasons wh…
From Greece to Rome
The Romans’ creation of a national literary culture in response to the literary culture of the Greeks is a phenomenon which fascin ates and baffles us as it fascinated and baffled them, a phenom enon which invites enquiry from many directions. Here we have no more than three aims: first (and most modestly), to give a sketch of how the Romans took over Greek literature, together with the apparatus of scholarship which had become an inextricable el…
Ovid’s Metamorphoses
Ovid’s Metamorphoses afford us something of an intermezzo. The very appearance of a chapter on this poem in a book on epic is it self an issue—a fact which the poet would no doubt have found highly diverting. From its first lines the poem continually con fronts us with the problem of the extent to which, and the ways in which, it is and is not epic. There is no obligation here to enter into a full account of the poem from the viewpoint of its con…
The Critics
The aim of the first chapter is to give a picture of the intellectual environment inhabited by the epic poets of the classical tradition, and their readers, as they confronted the problems of the gods in epic. The task is rendered difficult by the obvious fact that this was no homogeneous environment, but a contested and evolving one, of extreme complexity, itself always being transformed by the contribution of each successive poet. It is, furthe…
Epic of Myth
The last two epics of our study treat subjects from the time before the heroes of Homer. The voyage of the Argonauts is already a famous topic of poetry in the Odyssey. Circe speaks to Odysseus of ‘Argo, which is in the minds of al!’ (Od. 12. 70). On our present evidence, this was the myth that first broke history’s gnp on Roman epic after one hundred and fifty years, when Vergil’s contemporary, Varro of Atax, adapted Apollonius’ Argonautica into…
The Gods in Epic
The role of the gods in the classical world's epic tradition has been the subject of controversy since ancient times, and many modern readers continue to find their presence a source of frustration. Although the problem of the gods in some individual works has been intensely discussed, this is the first study to be devoted to the classical literary tradition as a whole, together with the apparatus of critical scholarship which was part of that tr…
‘Shall I Compare Thee…?’
‘Probably the most extraordinary poem in Latin,’ as Lyne describes it, this audacious piece of brilliance has attracted legions of critics. Here no attempt will be made to address each contested individual issue in the hallowed catalogue of notorious problems contained in the scholarly register on ‘Catullus 68’; nor will I chase the chimaera of a ‘full’ reading. Rather, I propose to adopt a partial and oblique approach to this most oblique of poe…
Vna CVM Scriptore Meo
On the first day of fighting at Philippi, the watchword and battlecry for the tryannicides' army was the inspiring ‘Libertas’. It is probable, however, that the 22-year-old Horace did not hear it – as if in anticipation of the confused failure to come, the tickets with the watchword were still being passed along to the officers when Brutus' legions spontaneously hurled themselves against the forces of Caesar opposite. Returning to Rome after the …
Traditions and Contexts in the Poetry of Horace
This book explores the whole range of the output of an exceptionally versatile and innovative poet, from the Epodes to the literary-critical Epistles. Distinguished scholars of diverse background and interests introduce readers to a variety of critical approaches to Horace and to Latin poetry. Close attention is paid throughout to the actual text of Horace, with many of the chapters focusing on reading a single poem. These close readings are then…
Two Virgilian Acrostics
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The Beginnings of a Literature in Latin
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Caesar's Calendar
The ancient Romans changed more than the map of the world when they conquered so much of it; they altered the way historical time itself is marked and understood. In this brilliant, erudite, and exhilarating book Denis Feeney investigates time and its contours as described by the ancient Romans, first as Rome positioned itself in relation to Greece and then as it exerted its influence as a major world power. Feeney welcomes the reader into a worl…
Robert Fagles (1933–2008)
Robert Fagles (1933–2008) Denis Feeney Robert Fagles, the Arthur Marks ’19 Professor of Comparative Literature Emeritus at Princeton University, died in Princeton on March 26, 2008, after a long illness which he faced with great courage. A renowned translator, whose versions of Greek tragedy, Homer, and Vergil have been international bestsellers, Fagles was, in addition, a beloved and inspirational teacher and a gifted administrator, the founding…
Fathers and Sons
This chapter investigates the historiographical traditions concerning the patrician family of the Manlii Torquati, and the use made of those traditions by the two Roman poets Catullus and Horace. The family of the Manlii Torquati are marked in Roman historiography for the template of a father killing his son, and the historians treat the family as a hard test case for the survival of aristocratic tradition: how can a family perpetuate a family tr…
Doing the Numbers
This chapter argues that Shakespeare, in Antony and Cleopatra, combines a novel perspective on what was at stake in Rome just after Caesar's assassination with an ability to shape civil war into the austerely satisfying trope of number play. Shakespeare's perspective on Roman history, Feeney shows, is not hampered by the Romans' own (Augustan and later) teleology: he presents the history of the Republic as highly contingent.
Crediting Pseudolus
Chronography
Chronography was a crucial part of Greek and Roman scholarship and historiography, since the ancient world had no one calendar or universally shared system of charting past time.
Representation and the materiality of the book in the polymetrics
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.
Catullus
In this book, a sequel to Traditions and Contexts in the Poetry of Horace (Cambridge University Press, 2002), ten leading Latin scholars provide specially commissioned in-depth discussions of the poetry of Catullus, one of ancient Rome's most favourite and best loved poets. Some chapters focus on the collection as a whole and the interrelationship of various poems; others deal with intertextuality and translation and Catullus' response to his Gre…
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