James J O'Hara
Biographic Data
| ID | 4561395 |
|---|---|
| NAME | James J O'Hara |
| GIVEN NAMES | James J |
| FAMILY NAME | O'Hara |
| SIGNATURE | HARA J J O |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 73 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1989 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Response to Pandey and Torlone, with Brief Remarks on the Harvard School
Response to Pandey and Torlone, with Brief Remarks on the Harvard School James J. O'Hara My contribution is a hybrid; I was the respondent to the four good papers in our January 2016 panel and will begin by including some of those remarks here, on the two printed in this volume, but then end with brief, largely autobiographical reflections of my own on the Harvard School. Nandini Pandey's fine paper shows how Vergilian texts, from Eclogue 1 throu…
Death and the Optimistic Prophecy in Vergil's Aeneid
Exemplary Traits
366 PHOENIX theoretical than the rest, but it looks at a variety of authors and genres to show how culture is, at heart, formalized memory. The analyses he offers of lyric, pastoral, and elegy all focus somehow on the aestheticization of the past, a hazy styling which at once obscures real history and keeps it alive in a formalized way. Meliboeus and Tityrus reenact the fall of the republic and the promise of the new age, respectively; Horace rem…
The Unfinished Aeneid ?
Inconsistency in Roman Epic
How should we react as readers and as critics when two passages in a literary work contradict one another? Classicists once assumed that all inconsistencies in ancient texts needed to be amended, explained away, or lamented. Building on recent work on both Greek and Roman authors, this book explores the possibility of interpreting inconsistencies in Roman epic. After a chapter surveying Greek background material including Homer, tragedy, Plato an…
"Ancient Etymologies in Ovid's "Metamorphoses
In this useful contribution to a subject of growing importance in contemporary classical studies, Andreas Michalopoulos has collected around 200 etymologies and etymological complexes in Ovid's Metamorphoses. These are listed with brief contextual information, evidence for the etymology from ancient grammarians, discussion of the artistic function of the wordplay, and examples of its use in other works of Ovid and in other Latin poets. The introd…
Venus or the Muse as "Ally" (Lucr. 1.24, Simon. Frag. Eleg. 11.20-22 W)
The Cambridge Companion to Virgil
Virgil became a school author in his own lifetime and the centre of the Western canon for the next 1800 years, exerting a major influence on European literature, art, and politics. This Companion is designed as an indispensable guide for anyone seeking a fuller understanding of an author critical to so many disciplines. It consists of essays by seventeen scholars from Britain, the USA, Ireland and Italy which offer a range of different perspectiv…
An Unconvincing Etymological Argument about Aeneas and the Gates of Sleep
Vergil
Shifting Paradigms
Labor and Fortuna in Virgil's Aeneid
Death and Rebirth in Virgil's Arcadia
Eros, Imitation, and the Epic Tradition
Etymological Wordplay in Apollonius of Rhodes, "Aeneid" 3, and "Georgics" 1
IT IS WELL KNOWN THAT Apollonius of Rhodes' Argonautica exercised a profound influence upon Vergil, and that Apollonius' poem makes frequent use of etymological aetiologies.1 But the influence of Apollonius on Vergilian etymological wordplay is overlooked or underappreciated by most commentators. This paper will present four examples of Vergilian etymological wordplay modelled on etymological aetiologies in the Argonautica, all but the last from …
The New Gallus and the Alternae Voces of Propertius 1.10.10
In CQ 34 (1984), 167–74, Janet Fairweather makes the interesting suggestion that the elegiacs by Gallus on the Qasr Ibrim papyrus should be understood as ‘a fragment of an amoebaean song-contest’. This hypothesis, as she notes, might explain why the papyrus' quatrains are set apart by spaces and by an odd type of symbol, and treat ‘separate, indeed discrepant, topics’, yet show ‘unmistakable verbal and thematic connections’. Fairweather's discuss…
Messapus, Cycnus, and the Alphabetical Order of Vergil's Catalogue of Italian Heroes
VERGIL'S LEARNED CATALOGUE OF ITALIAN HEROES at Aeneid 7.647-817 begins and ends with the most significant figures: Mezentius and Lausus head the list, and Turnus and Camilla close it. The other eleven warriors are Aventinus, Catillus, Coras, Caeculus, Messapus, Clausus, Halaesus, Oebalus, Ufens, Umbro, and Virbius. A. M. Cook observed that these eleven, with the exception of Messapus, are in first-letter alphabetical order (A, C, C, C, M, C, H, …
Death and the Optimistic Prophecy in Vergil's Aeneid
Inconsistency in Roman Epic
How should we react as readers and as critics when two passages in a literary work contradict one another? Classicists once assumed that all inconsistencies in ancient texts needed to be amended, explained away, or lamented. Building on recent work on both Greek and Roman authors, this book explores the possibility of interpreting inconsistencies in Roman epic. After a chapter surveying Greek background material including Homer, tragedy, Plato an…
Eros, Imitation, and the Epic Tradition
An Unconvincing Etymological Argument about Aeneas and the Gates of Sleep
The New Gallus and the Alternae Voces of Propertius 1.10.10
In CQ 34 (1984), 167–74, Janet Fairweather makes the interesting suggestion that the elegiacs by Gallus on the Qasr Ibrim papyrus should be understood as ‘a fragment of an amoebaean song-contest’. This hypothesis, as she notes, might explain why the papyrus' quatrains are set apart by spaces and by an odd type of symbol, and treat ‘separate, indeed discrepant, topics’, yet show ‘unmistakable verbal and thematic connections’. Fairweather's discuss…
Messapus, Cycnus, and the Alphabetical Order of Vergil's Catalogue of Italian Heroes
VERGIL'S LEARNED CATALOGUE OF ITALIAN HEROES at Aeneid 7.647-817 begins and ends with the most significant figures: Mezentius and Lausus head the list, and Turnus and Camilla close it. The other eleven warriors are Aventinus, Catillus, Coras, Caeculus, Messapus, Clausus, Halaesus, Oebalus, Ufens, Umbro, and Virbius. A. M. Cook observed that these eleven, with the exception of Messapus, are in first-letter alphabetical order (A, C, C, C, M, C, H, …
The New Gallus and the Alternae Voces of Propertius 1.10.10
In CQ 34 (1984), 167–74, Janet Fairweather makes the interesting suggestion that the elegiacs by Gallus on the Qasr Ibrim papyrus should be understood as ‘a fragment of an amoebaean song-contest’. This hypothesis, as she notes, might explain why the papyrus' quatrains are set apart by spaces and by an odd type of symbol, and treat ‘separate, indeed discrepant, topics’, yet show ‘unmistakable verbal and thematic connections’. Fairweather's discuss…
Messapus, Cycnus, and the Alphabetical Order of Vergil's Catalogue of Italian Heroes
VERGIL'S LEARNED CATALOGUE OF ITALIAN HEROES at Aeneid 7.647-817 begins and ends with the most significant figures: Mezentius and Lausus head the list, and Turnus and Camilla close it. The other eleven warriors are Aventinus, Catillus, Coras, Caeculus, Messapus, Clausus, Halaesus, Oebalus, Ufens, Umbro, and Virbius. A. M. Cook observed that these eleven, with the exception of Messapus, are in first-letter alphabetical order (A, C, C, C, M, C, H, …
Etymological Wordplay in Apollonius of Rhodes, "Aeneid" 3, and "Georgics" 1
IT IS WELL KNOWN THAT Apollonius of Rhodes' Argonautica exercised a profound influence upon Vergil, and that Apollonius' poem makes frequent use of etymological aetiologies.1 But the influence of Apollonius on Vergilian etymological wordplay is overlooked or underappreciated by most commentators. This paper will present four examples of Vergilian etymological wordplay modelled on etymological aetiologies in the Argonautica, all but the last from …
Labor and Fortuna in Virgil's Aeneid
Death and Rebirth in Virgil's Arcadia
Eros, Imitation, and the Epic Tradition
Shifting Paradigms
Vergil
An Unconvincing Etymological Argument about Aeneas and the Gates of Sleep
The Cambridge Companion to Virgil
Virgil became a school author in his own lifetime and the centre of the Western canon for the next 1800 years, exerting a major influence on European literature, art, and politics. This Companion is designed as an indispensable guide for anyone seeking a fuller understanding of an author critical to so many disciplines. It consists of essays by seventeen scholars from Britain, the USA, Ireland and Italy which offer a range of different perspectiv…
Venus or the Muse as "Ally" (Lucr. 1.24, Simon. Frag. Eleg. 11.20-22 W)
"Ancient Etymologies in Ovid's "Metamorphoses
In this useful contribution to a subject of growing importance in contemporary classical studies, Andreas Michalopoulos has collected around 200 etymologies and etymological complexes in Ovid's Metamorphoses. These are listed with brief contextual information, evidence for the etymology from ancient grammarians, discussion of the artistic function of the wordplay, and examples of its use in other works of Ovid and in other Latin poets. The introd…
Inconsistency in Roman Epic
How should we react as readers and as critics when two passages in a literary work contradict one another? Classicists once assumed that all inconsistencies in ancient texts needed to be amended, explained away, or lamented. Building on recent work on both Greek and Roman authors, this book explores the possibility of interpreting inconsistencies in Roman epic. After a chapter surveying Greek background material including Homer, tragedy, Plato an…
The Unfinished Aeneid ?
Death and the Optimistic Prophecy in Vergil's Aeneid
Exemplary Traits
366 PHOENIX theoretical than the rest, but it looks at a variety of authors and genres to show how culture is, at heart, formalized memory. The analyses he offers of lyric, pastoral, and elegy all focus somehow on the aestheticization of the past, a hazy styling which at once obscures real history and keeps it alive in a formalized way. Meliboeus and Tityrus reenact the fall of the republic and the promise of the new age, respectively; Horace rem…
Response to Pandey and Torlone, with Brief Remarks on the Harvard School
Response to Pandey and Torlone, with Brief Remarks on the Harvard School James J. O'Hara My contribution is a hybrid; I was the respondent to the four good papers in our January 2016 panel and will begin by including some of those remarks here, on the two printed in this volume, but then end with brief, largely autobiographical reflections of my own on the Harvard School. Nandini Pandey's fine paper shows how Vergilian texts, from Eclogue 1 throu…
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