Silvia Montiglio
Biographic Data
| ID | 489387 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Silvia Montiglio |
| GIVEN NAMES | Silvia |
| FAMILY NAME | Montiglio |
| SIGNATURE | MONTIGLIO S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Wisconsin–Madison |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 26 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 21 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1993 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
On the Road Again (6.1–4)
Sections 1–4 of Book 6 are filled with narrative devices to keep the reader’s interest alert after the novel has reached midpoint and several crucial developments have already taken place. Heliodorus begins and ends the episode with pictures of restlessness and excited movement, which incite the readers to ‘move on’, while the retelling of Cnemon’s story ties together the two halves of the novel by harking back to Calasiris’ performance in a numb…
Latin Poetry in the Ancient Greek Novel by Daniel Jolowicz
Reviewed by: Latin Poetry in the Ancient Greek Novel by Daniel Jolowicz Silvia Montiglio Latin Poetry in the Ancient Greek Novel. By Daniel Jolowicz. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2021. Pp. 401. Latin Poetry and the Ancient Greek Novel explores the presence and significance of Latin elegy and epic in the novels of Chariton, Achilles Tatius, and Longus. The book begins with a clear, informative, and confident introduction, which debunks the lon…
The Epic Journey in Greek and Roman Literature
This volume explores journeys across time and space in Greek and Latin literature, taking as its starting point the paradigm of travel offered by the epic genre. The epic journey is central to the dynamics of classical literature, offering a powerful lens through which characters, authors, and readers experience their real and imaginary worlds. The journey informs questions of identity formation, narrative development, historical emplotment, and …
Wandering, Love, and Home in Apollonius of Rhodes’ Argonautica and Heliodorus’ Aethiopica
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The Myth of Hero and Leander: The History and Reception of an Enduring Greek Legend
Hero and Leander are the protagonists in a classical tale of epic but tragic love. Hero lives secluded in a tower on the European shore of the Hellespont, and Leander on the opposite side of the passage. Since they cannot hope to marry, the couple resolves to meet in secret: each night he swims across to her, guided by the light of her torch. But the time comes when a winter storm kills both the light and Leander. At dawn, Hero sees her lover’s m…
Impermanent Stones, Permanent Plants
This chapter identifies the ways in which epigrammatists in the Palatine Anthology create tombs that provide for a poet’s immortalization, not through everlasting stone, but through ever-growing plants. Vivifying plants creep over the tombs of Anacreon, Sophocles, and Machon, or the iambic poet Hipponax. Plants match poetry: the tomb of Hipponax, for example, is covered with stinging thorns and acerbic fruit. The lush vegetation which adorns the …
La nuit: Imaginaire et réalités nocturnes dans le monde gréco-romain
BOOK REVIEWS/COMPTES RENDUS 373 does not discuss the workings of those devices at all, even while she speculates about the mechanisms of the giant snail commissioned by Demetrius of Phaleron, described in almost no detail by Polybius (192–193). This book might have been an opportunity to communicate contemporary scholarship on ancient science and technology, especially Sylvia Berryman’s groundbreaking and nuanced work on ancient mechanics and aut…
The End? The Death of Hero and Leander from Antiquity to the Rediscovery of Musaeus in Western Europe
Article The End? The Death of Hero and Leander from Antiquity to the Rediscovery of Musaeus in Western Europe was published on November 1, 2016 in the journal Antike und Abendland (volume 62, issue 1)
Philosophy and the Ancient Novel
A Gift of Providence?
This chapter moves from Greece to Rome. It deals with recognitions in Petronius’s Satyrica and Apuleius’s Golden Ass. While it is possible that both novelists (Apuleius in particular) had Greek novels in mind, their treatment of recognition is widely different from them. Instead of bringing about happy endings, recognitions tend to create more trouble for those involved. This shift in the meaning of recognition is connected to the nonidealistic w…
True Love and Immediate Recognition
This chapter deals with recognitions in the novels of Chariton and Xenophon of Ephesus, usually termed “pre-Sophistic.” In both novels, the lovers recognize each other and are reunited after a long and painful separation. In both, the recognition represents the climax of the narrative and produces the happy ending. The two novels also share a worldview that idealizes the perfection of love and beauty, both of which play into recognition by making…
Love and Providence: Recognition in the Ancient Novel
The core of this book is an investigation of the treatment of the recognition motif in the Greek novels. It also includes forays into the Roman novels, early Jewish and Christian narratives, and an overview of a sample of early modern European texts, which have been influenced by the ancient novel in their recognition scenes. The ancient novels inherit the recognition motif from epic and drama, and acknowledge their debts by citations or allusion…
From Villain to Hero: Odysseus in Ancient Thought
Praise for Silvia Montiglio "[A] brilliant and important book. . . . " ---Journal of Religion, on Silence in the Land of Logos "[A]n invigorating reevaluation of both the ancient symbolic landscape and our preconceptions of it." ---American Journal of Philology, on Wandering in Ancient Greek Culture Best known for his adventures during his homeward journey as narrated in Homer's Odyssey, Odysseus remained a major figure and a source of inspiratio…
The Call of Blood: Greek Origins of a Motif, from Euripides to Heliodorus
This article attempts to retrace the origins of the motif of "nature's voice" or "the call of blood," which is extensively exploited in early Christian narratives and, in later periods, in drama, especially in France, but an important instance of which appears already in the Greek novel Aethiopica . Previous scholarship has argued that the origin of the motif is in that novel or at any rate in the early Roman period. Instead, this article suggest…
Silence in the Land of Logos
In ancient Greece, the spoken word connoted power, whether in the free speech accorded to citizens or in the voice of the poet, whose song was thought to know no earthly bounds. But how did silence fit into the mental framework of a society that valued speech so highly? Here Silvia Montiglio provides the first comprehensive investigation into silence as a distinctive and meaningful phenomenon in archaic and classical Greece. Arguing that the noti…
Perfer Et Obdura: Multo Graviora Tulisti ( Tr. 5.11.7): Ovid's Rejection of Ulysses' Endurance
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Should the Aspiring Wise Man Travel? A Conflict in Seneca's Thought
This article examines the connection between traveling and wisdom in Seneca's writings. It argues that Seneca is ambivalent vis-Ã -vis traveling: on the one hand, he deems the activity unnecessary or even dangerous, insofar as it is at odds with mental focus and challenges the ideal of happiness as "home" (domestica felicitas); on the other, he admires those who travel for the sake of knowledge and connects the mobility of the body with the "cosm…
Wandering in ancient Greek culture
From the Archaic period to the Greco-Roman age, the figure of the wanderer held great significance in ancient Greece. In the first comprehensive study devoted to this theme, Wandering in Ancient Greek Culture unearths the many meanings attached to this practice over the centuries. Employing a broad range of literary and philosophical texts, Silvia Montiglio demonstrates how wandering has been conceptualized from Homer's Odysseus - the hero wander…
Odysseus' return and the memory of wandering
II est bien connu qu'Ulysse réussit son retour parce qu'il n'oublie pas. Qu'est-ce qu'il n'oublie pas, au juste ? Bien évidemment le retour lui-même, le but de son voyage, à savoir, son identité en tant qu'Ulysse-homme mortel. Cependant, la mémoire du retour est indissociable de la mémoire de l'errance. L'errance n'est pas seulement, comme on le croit généralement, une épreuve contre laquelle Ulysse doit faire valoir sa volonté de retour ; c'est …
Silence in the Land of Logos
Prises de paroles, prises de silence dans l'espace athénien
Utterances and silences in the Athenian sphere. Silvia Montiglio. [23-41] This article aims at understanding the articulation betweeen speech and silence in the assembly of ancient Athens. The orator, concerned as he is with the rights and duties of intervening for the public good, as well as with the need to show his restraint, makes an abundant use of pretentions in order to suggest that he speeks only for the common interest, all the more that…
La menace du silence pour le héros de l'Iliade
La menace du silence pour le héros de l'Iliade (pp. 161-186) Cette étude cherche à cerner les connotations principales du silence dans la première épopée, à partir du texte lui-même aussi bien que des gloses anciennes. Dans le cadre du "combat de paroles" auquel se livrent les héros de l'lliade, le silence s'avère être surtout une marque de défaite, d'inertie, d'impuissance. Le code homérique de la parole, en effet, présuppose la circulation rapi…
Silence in the Land of Logos
In ancient Greece, the spoken word connoted power, whether in the free speech accorded to citizens or in the voice of the poet, whose song was thought to know no earthly bounds. But how did silence fit into the mental framework of a society that valued speech so highly? Here Silvia Montiglio provides the first comprehensive investigation into silence as a distinctive and meaningful phenomenon in archaic and classical Greece. Arguing that the noti…
Love and Providence: Recognition in the Ancient Novel
The core of this book is an investigation of the treatment of the recognition motif in the Greek novels. It also includes forays into the Roman novels, early Jewish and Christian narratives, and an overview of a sample of early modern European texts, which have been influenced by the ancient novel in their recognition scenes. The ancient novels inherit the recognition motif from epic and drama, and acknowledge their debts by citations or allusion…
La menace du silence pour le héros de l'Iliade
La menace du silence pour le héros de l'Iliade (pp. 161-186) Cette étude cherche à cerner les connotations principales du silence dans la première épopée, à partir du texte lui-même aussi bien que des gloses anciennes. Dans le cadre du "combat de paroles" auquel se livrent les héros de l'lliade, le silence s'avère être surtout une marque de défaite, d'inertie, d'impuissance. Le code homérique de la parole, en effet, présuppose la circulation rapi…
Perfer Et Obdura: Multo Graviora Tulisti ( Tr. 5.11.7): Ovid's Rejection of Ulysses' Endurance
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
Prises de paroles, prises de silence dans l'espace athénien
Utterances and silences in the Athenian sphere. Silvia Montiglio. [23-41] This article aims at understanding the articulation betweeen speech and silence in the assembly of ancient Athens. The orator, concerned as he is with the rights and duties of intervening for the public good, as well as with the need to show his restraint, makes an abundant use of pretentions in order to suggest that he speeks only for the common interest, all the more that…
La menace du silence pour le héros de l'Iliade
La menace du silence pour le héros de l'Iliade (pp. 161-186) Cette étude cherche à cerner les connotations principales du silence dans la première épopée, à partir du texte lui-même aussi bien que des gloses anciennes. Dans le cadre du "combat de paroles" auquel se livrent les héros de l'lliade, le silence s'avère être surtout une marque de défaite, d'inertie, d'impuissance. Le code homérique de la parole, en effet, présuppose la circulation rapi…
Prises de paroles, prises de silence dans l'espace athénien
Utterances and silences in the Athenian sphere. Silvia Montiglio. [23-41] This article aims at understanding the articulation betweeen speech and silence in the assembly of ancient Athens. The orator, concerned as he is with the rights and duties of intervening for the public good, as well as with the need to show his restraint, makes an abundant use of pretentions in order to suggest that he speeks only for the common interest, all the more that…
Silence in the Land of Logos
Odysseus' return and the memory of wandering
II est bien connu qu'Ulysse réussit son retour parce qu'il n'oublie pas. Qu'est-ce qu'il n'oublie pas, au juste ? Bien évidemment le retour lui-même, le but de son voyage, à savoir, son identité en tant qu'Ulysse-homme mortel. Cependant, la mémoire du retour est indissociable de la mémoire de l'errance. L'errance n'est pas seulement, comme on le croit généralement, une épreuve contre laquelle Ulysse doit faire valoir sa volonté de retour ; c'est …
Wandering in ancient Greek culture
From the Archaic period to the Greco-Roman age, the figure of the wanderer held great significance in ancient Greece. In the first comprehensive study devoted to this theme, Wandering in Ancient Greek Culture unearths the many meanings attached to this practice over the centuries. Employing a broad range of literary and philosophical texts, Silvia Montiglio demonstrates how wandering has been conceptualized from Homer's Odysseus - the hero wander…
Should the Aspiring Wise Man Travel? A Conflict in Seneca's Thought
This article examines the connection between traveling and wisdom in Seneca's writings. It argues that Seneca is ambivalent vis-Ã -vis traveling: on the one hand, he deems the activity unnecessary or even dangerous, insofar as it is at odds with mental focus and challenges the ideal of happiness as "home" (domestica felicitas); on the other, he admires those who travel for the sake of knowledge and connects the mobility of the body with the "cosm…
Perfer Et Obdura: Multo Graviora Tulisti ( Tr. 5.11.7): Ovid's Rejection of Ulysses' Endurance
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
Silence in the Land of Logos
In ancient Greece, the spoken word connoted power, whether in the free speech accorded to citizens or in the voice of the poet, whose song was thought to know no earthly bounds. But how did silence fit into the mental framework of a society that valued speech so highly? Here Silvia Montiglio provides the first comprehensive investigation into silence as a distinctive and meaningful phenomenon in archaic and classical Greece. Arguing that the noti…
From Villain to Hero: Odysseus in Ancient Thought
Praise for Silvia Montiglio "[A] brilliant and important book. . . . " ---Journal of Religion, on Silence in the Land of Logos "[A]n invigorating reevaluation of both the ancient symbolic landscape and our preconceptions of it." ---American Journal of Philology, on Wandering in Ancient Greek Culture Best known for his adventures during his homeward journey as narrated in Homer's Odyssey, Odysseus remained a major figure and a source of inspiratio…
The Call of Blood: Greek Origins of a Motif, from Euripides to Heliodorus
This article attempts to retrace the origins of the motif of "nature's voice" or "the call of blood," which is extensively exploited in early Christian narratives and, in later periods, in drama, especially in France, but an important instance of which appears already in the Greek novel Aethiopica . Previous scholarship has argued that the origin of the motif is in that novel or at any rate in the early Roman period. Instead, this article suggest…
A Gift of Providence?
This chapter moves from Greece to Rome. It deals with recognitions in Petronius’s Satyrica and Apuleius’s Golden Ass. While it is possible that both novelists (Apuleius in particular) had Greek novels in mind, their treatment of recognition is widely different from them. Instead of bringing about happy endings, recognitions tend to create more trouble for those involved. This shift in the meaning of recognition is connected to the nonidealistic w…
True Love and Immediate Recognition
This chapter deals with recognitions in the novels of Chariton and Xenophon of Ephesus, usually termed “pre-Sophistic.” In both novels, the lovers recognize each other and are reunited after a long and painful separation. In both, the recognition represents the climax of the narrative and produces the happy ending. The two novels also share a worldview that idealizes the perfection of love and beauty, both of which play into recognition by making…
Love and Providence: Recognition in the Ancient Novel
The core of this book is an investigation of the treatment of the recognition motif in the Greek novels. It also includes forays into the Roman novels, early Jewish and Christian narratives, and an overview of a sample of early modern European texts, which have been influenced by the ancient novel in their recognition scenes. The ancient novels inherit the recognition motif from epic and drama, and acknowledge their debts by citations or allusion…
Philosophy and the Ancient Novel
The End? The Death of Hero and Leander from Antiquity to the Rediscovery of Musaeus in Western Europe
Article The End? The Death of Hero and Leander from Antiquity to the Rediscovery of Musaeus in Western Europe was published on November 1, 2016 in the journal Antike und Abendland (volume 62, issue 1)
The Myth of Hero and Leander: The History and Reception of an Enduring Greek Legend
Hero and Leander are the protagonists in a classical tale of epic but tragic love. Hero lives secluded in a tower on the European shore of the Hellespont, and Leander on the opposite side of the passage. Since they cannot hope to marry, the couple resolves to meet in secret: each night he swims across to her, guided by the light of her torch. But the time comes when a winter storm kills both the light and Leander. At dawn, Hero sees her lover’s m…
Impermanent Stones, Permanent Plants
This chapter identifies the ways in which epigrammatists in the Palatine Anthology create tombs that provide for a poet’s immortalization, not through everlasting stone, but through ever-growing plants. Vivifying plants creep over the tombs of Anacreon, Sophocles, and Machon, or the iambic poet Hipponax. Plants match poetry: the tomb of Hipponax, for example, is covered with stinging thorns and acerbic fruit. The lush vegetation which adorns the …
La nuit: Imaginaire et réalités nocturnes dans le monde gréco-romain
BOOK REVIEWS/COMPTES RENDUS 373 does not discuss the workings of those devices at all, even while she speculates about the mechanisms of the giant snail commissioned by Demetrius of Phaleron, described in almost no detail by Polybius (192–193). This book might have been an opportunity to communicate contemporary scholarship on ancient science and technology, especially Sylvia Berryman’s groundbreaking and nuanced work on ancient mechanics and aut…
The Epic Journey in Greek and Roman Literature
This volume explores journeys across time and space in Greek and Latin literature, taking as its starting point the paradigm of travel offered by the epic genre. The epic journey is central to the dynamics of classical literature, offering a powerful lens through which characters, authors, and readers experience their real and imaginary worlds. The journey informs questions of identity formation, narrative development, historical emplotment, and …
Wandering, Love, and Home in Apollonius of Rhodes’ Argonautica and Heliodorus’ Aethiopica
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.
Latin Poetry in the Ancient Greek Novel by Daniel Jolowicz
Reviewed by: Latin Poetry in the Ancient Greek Novel by Daniel Jolowicz Silvia Montiglio Latin Poetry in the Ancient Greek Novel. By Daniel Jolowicz. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2021. Pp. 401. Latin Poetry and the Ancient Greek Novel explores the presence and significance of Latin elegy and epic in the novels of Chariton, Achilles Tatius, and Longus. The book begins with a clear, informative, and confident introduction, which debunks the lon…
On the Road Again (6.1–4)
Sections 1–4 of Book 6 are filled with narrative devices to keep the reader’s interest alert after the novel has reached midpoint and several crucial developments have already taken place. Heliodorus begins and ends the episode with pictures of restlessness and excited movement, which incite the readers to ‘move on’, while the retelling of Cnemon’s story ties together the two halves of the novel by harking back to Calasiris’ performance in a numb…
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