Stephen C Harrison
Biographic Data
| ID | 5119097 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Stephen C Harrison |
| GIVEN NAMES | Stephen C |
| FAMILY NAME | Harrison |
| SIGNATURE | HARRISON S C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Texas A&M University – Corpus Christi |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7215-9393 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Horace on Sacred Space
This chapter looks at potential allusions in Horace’s Odes to the religious buildings in Rome known to have been constructed or substantially repaired by Augustus. These major construction projects in Rome in the Augustan period are naturally a topic of interest to contemporary poets; in the case of the Odes , it can be argued that there are many points of contact between poetic and architectural artefacts, and even that the Roman literary achiev…
Horace’s hymn to Bacchus (Odes 2.19)
Th ough, said to be apter for dances, games And sport, you were rumoured to be Not fi t enough for fi ghting: but you were the same Central fi gure in both peace and war. Cerberus saw you without trying to harm you, Beautiful with your golden horn, gently rubbing you With his tail, and as you departed he touched your feet And calves with his three
Artefact ekphrasis and narrative in epic poetry from Homer to Silius
This contribution will look at the narrative function of artefact ekphrasis - here interpreted as the verbal description of objects - in Greek and Roman epic poetry and epyllia such as Moschus' Europa and Catullus' Carmen 64. Its primary focus will be on the way in which an ekphrasis can work as a prolepsis in narratological terms, a device by which a future portion of the story is recounted out of temporal sequence in the narrative. The use of e…
Force, Frequency and Focalisation
The Sword-Belt of Pallas
Ovid’s Literary Entrance
Local histories and local sensemaking
Two-author Commentaries on Horace
This chapter considers the two best-known collaborative commentaries on Horace’s Odes: that of Adolf Kiessling and Richard Heinze, where Kiessling’s commentary of 1884–7 (part of a complete commentary on Horace) was re-edited in a second and further editions by the latter after the former’s death, and that of Robin Nisbet and Margaret Hubbard (Odes 1, 1970 and 2, 1980) and Robin Nisbet and Niall Rudd (Odes 3, 2004). It looks at how Kiessling’s or…
Proleptic ekphrasis in Flavian epic
Narrative Subversion and Religious Satire in Metamorphoses 11
This chapter restates and reinforces previous arguments for a fundamentally satirical view through a reading of some key scenes in the book. The chapter presents a visionary experience on Lucius' part: he wakes up in the middle of the night, prays to the moon, and has an epiphany of Isis in response. During the epiphany scene, the goddess had told Lucius that she was simultaneously informing her priest in a vision about Lucius' coming retransform…
A Local Hero
John Robert Mortimer (1825–1911) dominated archaeological activity in the East Riding of Yorkshire during the second half of the nineteenth century, devoting much of his adult life to the systematic and careful examination of large numbers of prehistoric barrows on the chalklands of the Yorkshire Wolds (Harrison 1996a). So thoroughly was this objective pursued that he was later able to write that it would not be possible ‘to make another collecti…
Town and country
The tension and interplay between town and country form a key theme in Horace’s poetry, and have significant philosophical and ideological implications. This chapter seeks to explore this important poetic material and its presentation in the different genres and periods of Horace’s output. A divided existence? The theme of town and country appears in the first programmatic poem of Horace’s first poetry book, Satires (35 BC) - Satires 1.1.8-9: agr…
Epic Extremities
A Local Hero
John Robert Mortimer (1825–1911) dominated archaeological activity in the East Riding of Yorkshire during the second half of the nineteenth century, devoting much of his adult life to the systematic and careful examination of large numbers of prehistoric barrows on the chalklands of the Yorkshire Wolds (Harrison 1996a). So thoroughly was this objective pursued that he was later able to write that it would not be possible ‘to make another collecti…
Epic Extremities
Town and country
The tension and interplay between town and country form a key theme in Horace’s poetry, and have significant philosophical and ideological implications. This chapter seeks to explore this important poetic material and its presentation in the different genres and periods of Horace’s output. A divided existence? The theme of town and country appears in the first programmatic poem of Horace’s first poetry book, Satires (35 BC) - Satires 1.1.8-9: agr…
A Local Hero
John Robert Mortimer (1825–1911) dominated archaeological activity in the East Riding of Yorkshire during the second half of the nineteenth century, devoting much of his adult life to the systematic and careful examination of large numbers of prehistoric barrows on the chalklands of the Yorkshire Wolds (Harrison 1996a). So thoroughly was this objective pursued that he was later able to write that it would not be possible ‘to make another collecti…
Narrative Subversion and Religious Satire in Metamorphoses 11
This chapter restates and reinforces previous arguments for a fundamentally satirical view through a reading of some key scenes in the book. The chapter presents a visionary experience on Lucius' part: he wakes up in the middle of the night, prays to the moon, and has an epiphany of Isis in response. During the epiphany scene, the goddess had told Lucius that she was simultaneously informing her priest in a vision about Lucius' coming retransform…
Proleptic ekphrasis in Flavian epic
Two-author Commentaries on Horace
This chapter considers the two best-known collaborative commentaries on Horace’s Odes: that of Adolf Kiessling and Richard Heinze, where Kiessling’s commentary of 1884–7 (part of a complete commentary on Horace) was re-edited in a second and further editions by the latter after the former’s death, and that of Robin Nisbet and Margaret Hubbard (Odes 1, 1970 and 2, 1980) and Robin Nisbet and Niall Rudd (Odes 3, 2004). It looks at how Kiessling’s or…
Local histories and local sensemaking
Force, Frequency and Focalisation
The Sword-Belt of Pallas
Ovid’s Literary Entrance
Artefact ekphrasis and narrative in epic poetry from Homer to Silius
This contribution will look at the narrative function of artefact ekphrasis - here interpreted as the verbal description of objects - in Greek and Roman epic poetry and epyllia such as Moschus' Europa and Catullus' Carmen 64. Its primary focus will be on the way in which an ekphrasis can work as a prolepsis in narratological terms, a device by which a future portion of the story is recounted out of temporal sequence in the narrative. The use of e…
Horace’s hymn to Bacchus (Odes 2.19)
Th ough, said to be apter for dances, games And sport, you were rumoured to be Not fi t enough for fi ghting: but you were the same Central fi gure in both peace and war. Cerberus saw you without trying to harm you, Beautiful with your golden horn, gently rubbing you With his tail, and as you departed he touched your feet And calves with his three
Horace on Sacred Space
This chapter looks at potential allusions in Horace’s Odes to the religious buildings in Rome known to have been constructed or substantially repaired by Augustus. These major construction projects in Rome in the Augustan period are naturally a topic of interest to contemporary poets; in the case of the Odes , it can be argued that there are many points of contact between poetic and architectural artefacts, and even that the Roman literary achiev…
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