Roland Mayer
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 3875211 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Roland Mayer |
| PRENOMES | Roland |
| SOBRENOME | Mayer |
| ASSINATURA | MAYER R |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Birkbeck, University of London |
| VERIFICADO | Não |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 27 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 176 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 25 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 2 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1978 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2020 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
Amor
Seneca Redivivus
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Horace
In the first book of odes, Horace presents himself to his Roman readers in a novel guise, as the appropriator of the Greek lyric tradition. He aspired to add a new province to the empire of the national literature. The first book is designed both to establish Horace's engagement with his Greek predecessors and to create a role for lyric poetry in contemporary Rome. The collection of thirty-eight poems is therefore a dazzling feat of poetic approp…
Two Tricky Transitives
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Sleeping with the enemy
The Roman satirist approached philosophy warily, first because it was Greek, and secondly because it seemed to set itself up as a rival to the native moral tradition. Satire is basically conservative in outlook, and Roman satire upholds Roman values: change is bad, the foreign is suspect. It is for this reason that Lucilius makes fun, through a persona, of a Roman Hellenomaniac, Albucius (fr. 87-93W), that Persius depicts a centurion bidding a cl…
The Cambridge Companion to Roman Satire
Satire as a distinct genre of writing was first developed by the Romans in the second century BCE. Regarded by them as uniquely 'their own', satire held a special place in the Roman imagination as the one genre that could address the problems of city life from the perspective of a 'real Roman'. In this Cambridge Companion an international team of scholars provides a stimulating introduction to Roman satire's core practitioners and practices, plac…
Seneca
A Lost Allusion Recovered
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Pliny and Gloria Dicendi
If you approach the younger Pliny through a standard selection of his letters, or as the subject of a short essay in a literary history (e.g., von Albrecht 1997.2.1146-57, Conte 1994.525-29, or Goodyear 1982.655-60), or in a sketch of his life (say, Sherwin-White 1969), you will not find him given his due in one respect, namely, as an orator. Yet it was his oratory that secured him his place in the Roman élite and upon which he hoped to base endu…
Tacitus
Horace
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Amor
Aspects of the language of Latin poetry
Horace
Metropolitan Latin
An insight into the ancient Roman origins of Western attitudes about ‘good’ and ‘bad’ usage and ‘standard’, ‘substandard’, and ‘nonstandard’ language
Personata Stoa
La Femme Retrouvée
In C.Q. 42 (1992) 551–2 E. J. Kenney impugned the appropriateness of femina in 28 on the grounds that it sabotages the poet's disclaimer to be treating not of women generally, but only of women not ruled out of bounds by the stola and uittae . Hesitantly he proposed to read in its place non or nee proba . It should be borne in mind that when a word has intruded itself from a nearby line and expelled the authentic reading, the ductus litterarum is…
Seneca
Notes on Seneca Tragicus
Ajax is the subject of intonat , but little else is certain. Various punctuations are on offer, and even the authenticity of lines 545 and 546 is questioned; the difficulties are set out in Professor Tarrant's commentary (Cambridge, 1976). My concern is focused solely on 545 and the word nunc , printed in the text of the recent Oxford Classical Text and obelized by Professor Zwierlein. I suggest that the original word in this part of the line was…
Aeneid 8.573 and Callimachus’ Hymn to Zeus
In his final words to his son, Pallas, Evander interposes a prayer: ‘At uos, o superi, et diuum tu maxime rector Iuppiter, Arcadii, quaeso, miserescite regis...’ Of recent commentators, C. J. Fordyce alone is bothered by the reference to Evander's Arcadian origin; he reckons that it alludes to his exiled condition and so establishes a claim on Jupiter's mercy. That may be so, but it is worth suggesting that this is rather a piece of Virgil's Call…
Horace's Epistles I and Philosophy
The Civil Status of Corydon
There is a suspicion in the minds of a number of Virgil's modern commentators that Corydon, the lover-shepherd of the second Eclogue , is himself a slave, and that the dominus of his beloved Alexis (who may be the Iollas of line 57) is his master too.1 It is the purpose of this note to show that the suspicion is baseless. None of the ancient commentators appears to know of such an interpretation. This should be significant in that they probably s…
Missing Persons in the Eclogues
MISSING PERSONS IN THE ECLOGUES Get access Roland Mayer Roland Mayer Birkbeck College Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies, Volume 30, Issue 1, December 1983, Pages 17–30, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.2041-5370.1983.tb00431.x Published: 12 March 2010
Catullus' Divorce
Why does Catullus in his eleventh poem tell Furius and Aurelius to take an unpleasant message to his girl-friend? After all, in the eighth poem he imagines himself able to do the job alone: ‘uale puella’ (12). Has his courage just evaporated? Or is it that he wants to put his messengers, whom he perhaps does not like, in an awkward position (so Baehrens, and more tentatively Fordyce)? Kroll is not sure why the poet chooses intermediaries. Some th…
Pharsalica Damna
Aspects of the language of Latin poetry
Tacitus
Personata Stoa
Pliny and Gloria Dicendi
If you approach the younger Pliny through a standard selection of his letters, or as the subject of a short essay in a literary history (e.g., von Albrecht 1997.2.1146-57, Conte 1994.525-29, or Goodyear 1982.655-60), or in a sketch of his life (say, Sherwin-White 1969), you will not find him given his due in one respect, namely, as an orator. Yet it was his oratory that secured him his place in the Roman élite and upon which he hoped to base endu…
Missing Persons in the Eclogues
MISSING PERSONS IN THE ECLOGUES Get access Roland Mayer Roland Mayer Birkbeck College Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies, Volume 30, Issue 1, December 1983, Pages 17–30, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.2041-5370.1983.tb00431.x Published: 12 March 2010
Catullus' Divorce
Why does Catullus in his eleventh poem tell Furius and Aurelius to take an unpleasant message to his girl-friend? After all, in the eighth poem he imagines himself able to do the job alone: ‘uale puella’ (12). Has his courage just evaporated? Or is it that he wants to put his messengers, whom he perhaps does not like, in an awkward position (so Baehrens, and more tentatively Fordyce)? Kroll is not sure why the poet chooses intermediaries. Some th…
A Lost Allusion Recovered
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La Femme Retrouvée
In C.Q. 42 (1992) 551–2 E. J. Kenney impugned the appropriateness of femina in 28 on the grounds that it sabotages the poet's disclaimer to be treating not of women generally, but only of women not ruled out of bounds by the stola and uittae . Hesitantly he proposed to read in its place non or nee proba . It should be borne in mind that when a word has intruded itself from a nearby line and expelled the authentic reading, the ductus litterarum is…
Seneca, Medea 723
Altum gurgitem Tigris premens : what is Tigris doing? Gronovius has no remark to the point. The context however points the way to interpretation. For in the list of four rivers, two others are given some word or phrase to characterize them: Hydaspes is gemmifer and Baetis is said to give his name to nearby lands. Thus altum gurgitem premens should refer to some characteristic act or condition of Tigris, not to a unique or casual occurrence. H. M.…
On Lucan and Nero
Seneca, Medea 723
Altum gurgitem Tigris premens : what is Tigris doing? Gronovius has no remark to the point. The context however points the way to interpretation. For in the list of four rivers, two others are given some word or phrase to characterize them: Hydaspes is gemmifer and Baetis is said to give his name to nearby lands. Thus altum gurgitem premens should refer to some characteristic act or condition of Tigris, not to a unique or casual occurrence. H. M.…
Pharsalica Damna
The Civil Status of Corydon
There is a suspicion in the minds of a number of Virgil's modern commentators that Corydon, the lover-shepherd of the second Eclogue , is himself a slave, and that the dominus of his beloved Alexis (who may be the Iollas of line 57) is his master too.1 It is the purpose of this note to show that the suspicion is baseless. None of the ancient commentators appears to know of such an interpretation. This should be significant in that they probably s…
Missing Persons in the Eclogues
MISSING PERSONS IN THE ECLOGUES Get access Roland Mayer Roland Mayer Birkbeck College Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies, Volume 30, Issue 1, December 1983, Pages 17–30, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.2041-5370.1983.tb00431.x Published: 12 March 2010
Catullus' Divorce
Why does Catullus in his eleventh poem tell Furius and Aurelius to take an unpleasant message to his girl-friend? After all, in the eighth poem he imagines himself able to do the job alone: ‘uale puella’ (12). Has his courage just evaporated? Or is it that he wants to put his messengers, whom he perhaps does not like, in an awkward position (so Baehrens, and more tentatively Fordyce)? Kroll is not sure why the poet chooses intermediaries. Some th…
Horace's Epistles I and Philosophy
Aeneid 8.573 and Callimachus’ Hymn to Zeus
In his final words to his son, Pallas, Evander interposes a prayer: ‘At uos, o superi, et diuum tu maxime rector Iuppiter, Arcadii, quaeso, miserescite regis...’ Of recent commentators, C. J. Fordyce alone is bothered by the reference to Evander's Arcadian origin; he reckons that it alludes to his exiled condition and so establishes a claim on Jupiter's mercy. That may be so, but it is worth suggesting that this is rather a piece of Virgil's Call…
Seneca
Notes on Seneca Tragicus
Ajax is the subject of intonat , but little else is certain. Various punctuations are on offer, and even the authenticity of lines 545 and 546 is questioned; the difficulties are set out in Professor Tarrant's commentary (Cambridge, 1976). My concern is focused solely on 545 and the word nunc , printed in the text of the recent Oxford Classical Text and obelized by Professor Zwierlein. I suggest that the original word in this part of the line was…
La Femme Retrouvée
In C.Q. 42 (1992) 551–2 E. J. Kenney impugned the appropriateness of femina in 28 on the grounds that it sabotages the poet's disclaimer to be treating not of women generally, but only of women not ruled out of bounds by the stola and uittae . Hesitantly he proposed to read in its place non or nee proba . It should be borne in mind that when a word has intruded itself from a nearby line and expelled the authentic reading, the ductus litterarum is…
Personata Stoa
Metropolitan Latin
An insight into the ancient Roman origins of Western attitudes about ‘good’ and ‘bad’ usage and ‘standard’, ‘substandard’, and ‘nonstandard’ language
Horace
Aspects of the language of Latin poetry
Horace
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
Amor
A Lost Allusion Recovered
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
Pliny and Gloria Dicendi
If you approach the younger Pliny through a standard selection of his letters, or as the subject of a short essay in a literary history (e.g., von Albrecht 1997.2.1146-57, Conte 1994.525-29, or Goodyear 1982.655-60), or in a sketch of his life (say, Sherwin-White 1969), you will not find him given his due in one respect, namely, as an orator. Yet it was his oratory that secured him his place in the Roman élite and upon which he hoped to base endu…
Tacitus
Sleeping with the enemy
The Roman satirist approached philosophy warily, first because it was Greek, and secondly because it seemed to set itself up as a rival to the native moral tradition. Satire is basically conservative in outlook, and Roman satire upholds Roman values: change is bad, the foreign is suspect. It is for this reason that Lucilius makes fun, through a persona, of a Roman Hellenomaniac, Albucius (fr. 87-93W), that Persius depicts a centurion bidding a cl…
The Cambridge Companion to Roman Satire
Satire as a distinct genre of writing was first developed by the Romans in the second century BCE. Regarded by them as uniquely 'their own', satire held a special place in the Roman imagination as the one genre that could address the problems of city life from the perspective of a 'real Roman'. In this Cambridge Companion an international team of scholars provides a stimulating introduction to Roman satire's core practitioners and practices, plac…
Seneca
Two Tricky Transitives
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
Horace
In the first book of odes, Horace presents himself to his Roman readers in a novel guise, as the appropriator of the Greek lyric tradition. He aspired to add a new province to the empire of the national literature. The first book is designed both to establish Horace's engagement with his Greek predecessors and to create a role for lyric poetry in contemporary Rome. The collection of thirty-eight poems is therefore a dazzling feat of poetic approp…
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