Phebe Lowell Bowditch
Biographic Data
| ID | 3874969 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Phebe Lowell Bowditch |
| GIVEN NAMES | Phebe Lowell |
| FAMILY NAME | Bowditch |
| SIGNATURE | BOWDITCH P L |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Oregon |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 20 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 4 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Roman Love Elegy and the Eros of Empire
This book focuses on the genre of Roman love elegy, a poetic form that flourished during the period of the first Roman emperor, Augustus.
Horace and the Pyrrhatechnics of Translation
Studying divergent translations of the same poem assists in teaching intermediate Latin students how to read Horace effectively. This essay analyzes several English versions of the Pyrrha ode, Horace 1.5, from the perspective of Ezra Pound's threefold distinction between logopoeia, melopoeia , and phanopeia as categories of poetic language captured in a good translation. As the concept that includes a poem's ironical play with the normative conte…
Tibullus and Egypt
Tibullus 1.7 depends on a greater context of generic conventions for its orientalizing alignment of elegiac gender difference with an east/west opposition. The discursive relationship between Rome and Egypt—in orientalist terms, the west's representational control of the east—evokes the elegiac relations of patron/lover-poet and lover/beloved in the Tibullan corpus. This essay interprets a fundamental ambivalence in Tibullus's representation of E…
Horace and the Gift Economy of Patronage
Horace and the Gift Economy of Patronage
This innovative study explores selected odes and epistles by the late-first-century poet Horace in light of modern anthropological and literary theory. Phebe Lowell Bowditch looks in particular at how the relationship between Horace and his patron Maecenas is reflected in these poems' themes and rhetorical figures. Using anthropological studies on gift exchange, she uncovers an implicit economic dynamic in these poems and skillfully challenges st…
Horace and the Gift Economy of Patronage
This innovative study explores selected odes and epistles by the late-first-century poet Horace in light of modern anthropological and literary theory. Phebe Lowell Bowditch looks in particular at how the relationship between Horace and his patron Maecenas is reflected in these poems' themes and rhetorical figures. Using anthropological studies on gift exchange, she uncovers an implicit economic dynamic in these poems and skillfully challenges st…
Tibullus and Egypt
Tibullus 1.7 depends on a greater context of generic conventions for its orientalizing alignment of elegiac gender difference with an east/west opposition. The discursive relationship between Rome and Egypt—in orientalist terms, the west's representational control of the east—evokes the elegiac relations of patron/lover-poet and lover/beloved in the Tibullan corpus. This essay interprets a fundamental ambivalence in Tibullus's representation of E…
Horace and the Gift Economy of Patronage
This innovative study explores selected odes and epistles by the late-first-century poet Horace in light of modern anthropological and literary theory. Phebe Lowell Bowditch looks in particular at how the relationship between Horace and his patron Maecenas is reflected in these poems' themes and rhetorical figures. Using anthropological studies on gift exchange, she uncovers an implicit economic dynamic in these poems and skillfully challenges st…
Horace and the Gift Economy of Patronage
Horace and the Pyrrhatechnics of Translation
Studying divergent translations of the same poem assists in teaching intermediate Latin students how to read Horace effectively. This essay analyzes several English versions of the Pyrrha ode, Horace 1.5, from the perspective of Ezra Pound's threefold distinction between logopoeia, melopoeia , and phanopeia as categories of poetic language captured in a good translation. As the concept that includes a poem's ironical play with the normative conte…
Tibullus and Egypt
Tibullus 1.7 depends on a greater context of generic conventions for its orientalizing alignment of elegiac gender difference with an east/west opposition. The discursive relationship between Rome and Egypt—in orientalist terms, the west's representational control of the east—evokes the elegiac relations of patron/lover-poet and lover/beloved in the Tibullan corpus. This essay interprets a fundamental ambivalence in Tibullus's representation of E…
Roman Love Elegy and the Eros of Empire
This book focuses on the genre of Roman love elegy, a poetic form that flourished during the period of the first Roman emperor, Augustus.
Art (4 works) · Classical Antiquity Studies (4 works) · Literature (3 works) · Poetry (3 works) · Business (2 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · Economics (2 works) · Elegy (2 works) · Historical and Architectural Studies (2 works) · History (2 works)