Victoria Rimell
Biographic Data
| ID | 5625833 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Victoria Rimell |
| GIVEN NAMES | Victoria |
| FAMILY NAME | Rimell |
| SIGNATURE | RIMELL V |
| AFFILIATIONS | Sapienza University of Rome |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
A Commentary on Ovid Remedia Amoris
Commentary on Ovid, Remedia Amoris: Edited with Introduction and Commentary
Motifs of Fire in Imperial Latin Literature (on V. M. Closs, While Rome Burned: (Fire, Leadership, and Urban Disaster in the Roman Cultural Imagination)
SARS-CoV-spread like wildfire in March , Donald Trump retweeted a satiric meme of himself playing a fiddle with the text 'My next piece is called nothing can stop what's coming ', commenting 'Who knows what this means, but it sounds good to me!'.Trump was acknowledging (while pretending, sardonically, not to recognise) the QAnon reference, but was apparently oblivious to the highbrow allusion-Tacitus' infamous sketch of Nero, singing 'The Fall of…
The Creative Superiority of Self-Reproach: Horace’s Ars Poetica
This chapter’s new reading of Horace’s AP teases out how this text negotiates a delicate tension and balance between Horace’s own inferior social status and superior status as older expert, and the superior social status and inferior age/expertise of the young Pisones for whom he writes. It traces how the text renders productive the challenges that result from these asymmetries by modelling and performing a mode of critical thinking centred on se…
Rome’s Dire Straits
This chapter considers the poetics of Roman imperial expansion in three dimensions. It investigates the depth and density of straits and clogged waterways—paradigmatically the Hellespont—in Latin poetry from Catullus to Statius, arguing that such spaces become laboratories for the ways in which poetic and military power is amplified in imperial texts via restriction, contraction, and pressure rather than by expatiation. The aim here is to go beyo…
Imagining Empire
Philosophy's Folds: Seneca, Cavarero, and the History of Rectitude
This article takes as its stimulus Adriana Cavarero's recent investigation of the postures of rectitude and inclination in the Western philosophical tradition (Cavarero 2013). To showcase how this book might catalyze productive interactions between feminist critics in different areas of the humanities, I will bring Cavarero into dialogue with a thinker she mentions in passing who extensively develops “rectitude as a general principle” (Veyne 2003…
Seneca and Neronian Rome: In the Mirror of Time
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The Cambridge Companion to Seneca
The Roman statesman, philosopher and playwright Lucius Annaeus Seneca dramatically influenced the progression of Western thought. His works have had an unparalleled impact on the development of ethical theory, shaping a code of behavior for dealing with tyranny in his own age that endures today. This Companion thoroughly examines the complete Senecan corpus, with special emphasis on the aspects of his writings that have challenged interpretation.…
The Closure of Space in Roman Poetics: Empire's Inward Turn
This ambitious book investigates a major yet underexplored nexus of themes in Roman cultural history: the evolving tropes of enclosure, retreat and compressed space within expanding, potentially borderless empire. In Roman writers' exploration of real and symbolic enclosures - caves, corners, villas, bathhouses, the 'prison' of the human body itself - we see the aesthetic, philosophical and political intersecting in fascinating ways, as the machi…
The Best a Man Can Get: Grooming Scipio in Seneca Epistle 86
Martial's Rome: Empire and the Ideology of Epigram
This provocative book is a major contribution to our understanding of Martial's poetics, his vision of the relationship between art and reality, and his role in formulating modern perceptions of Rome. The study shows how on every scale from the microscopic to the cosmic, Martial displays epigram's ambition to enact the sociality of urban life, but also to make Rome rise out of epigram's architecture and gestures. Martial's distinctive aesthetic, …
Petronius' lessons in learning – the hard way
Petronius' Satyricon looks like the joker in the pack. Not only is it the one text in this volume to have made the twentieth-century big screen – it's also the only chunk of prosimetric fiction, and perhaps the only work regularly read for fun, or even read much at all. If we can't swallow Petronius' toxic disordering and perversion of systems and ‘facts’, we can decide it's really off our map (and what did we expect from a hyper, Neronian pantom…
Ordering Knowledge in the Roman Empire
The Romans commanded the largest and most complex empire the world had ever seen, or would see until modern times. The challenges, however, were not just political, economic and military: Rome was also the hub of a vast information network, drawing in worldwide expertise and refashioning it for its own purposes. This fascinating collection of essays considers the dialogue between technical literature and imperial society, drawing on, developing a…
Ovid's Lovers: Desire, Difference and the Poetic Imagination
Ovid's Lovers: Desire, Difference and the Poetic Imagination
Central to Ovid's elegiac texts and his Metamorphoses is his preoccupation with how desiring subjects interact and seduce each other. This major study, which shifts the focus in Ovidian criticism from intertextuality to intersubjectivity, explores the relationship between self and other, and in particular that between male and female worlds, which is at the heart of Ovid's vision of poetry and the imagination. A series of close readings, focusing…
The poor man’s feast: Juvenal
Juvenal is the satirist of comparatives and superlatives. In exploiting hexameter satire’s partnership with epic, he sets out to look bigger, denser, ruder, slyer, angrier, fleshier, more sophisticated and bilious, to the power of ten, than all the other satirists before him put together. Next to this heavyweight, Horace’s bitter-sweet social commentary, or Persius' harsh medicinal concentrate, should begin to taste like very thin soup. Juvenal r…
The satiric maze: Petronius, satire, and the novel
Petronius' Satyricon has often been dubbed the most controversial and daedalic text in classical literature. The question of whether and how it should count as “satiric” has long preoccupied scholars, yet this contention is part of a broader debate about how to define a work parasitic on almost every known literary form, from the Greek romance (which it is often said to parody) to epic, historiography, New Comedy, Roman erotic elegy, the Milesian…
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…
Petronius and the Anatomy of Fiction
Petronius' Satyricon, long regarded as the first 'novel' of the Western tradition, has always sparked controversy. It has been puzzled over as a strikingly modernist riddle, elevated as a work of exemplary comic realism, condemned as obscene and repackaged as a morality tale. This reading of the surviving portions of the work shows how the Satyricon fuses the anarchic and the classic, the comic and the disturbing, and presents readers with a laby…
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Petronius and the Anatomy of Fiction
Petronius' Satyricon, long regarded as the first 'novel' of the Western tradition, has always sparked controversy. It has been puzzled over as a strikingly modernist riddle, elevated as a work of exemplary comic realism, condemned as obscene and repackaged as a morality tale. This reading of the surviving portions of the work shows how the Satyricon fuses the anarchic and the classic, the comic and the disturbing, and presents readers with a laby…
The poor man’s feast: Juvenal
Juvenal is the satirist of comparatives and superlatives. In exploiting hexameter satire’s partnership with epic, he sets out to look bigger, denser, ruder, slyer, angrier, fleshier, more sophisticated and bilious, to the power of ten, than all the other satirists before him put together. Next to this heavyweight, Horace’s bitter-sweet social commentary, or Persius' harsh medicinal concentrate, should begin to taste like very thin soup. Juvenal r…
The satiric maze: Petronius, satire, and the novel
Petronius' Satyricon has often been dubbed the most controversial and daedalic text in classical literature. The question of whether and how it should count as “satiric” has long preoccupied scholars, yet this contention is part of a broader debate about how to define a work parasitic on almost every known literary form, from the Greek romance (which it is often said to parody) to epic, historiography, New Comedy, Roman erotic elegy, the Milesian…
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…
Ovid's Lovers: Desire, Difference and the Poetic Imagination
Ovid's Lovers: Desire, Difference and the Poetic Imagination
Central to Ovid's elegiac texts and his Metamorphoses is his preoccupation with how desiring subjects interact and seduce each other. This major study, which shifts the focus in Ovidian criticism from intertextuality to intersubjectivity, explores the relationship between self and other, and in particular that between male and female worlds, which is at the heart of Ovid's vision of poetry and the imagination. A series of close readings, focusing…
Petronius' lessons in learning – the hard way
Petronius' Satyricon looks like the joker in the pack. Not only is it the one text in this volume to have made the twentieth-century big screen – it's also the only chunk of prosimetric fiction, and perhaps the only work regularly read for fun, or even read much at all. If we can't swallow Petronius' toxic disordering and perversion of systems and ‘facts’, we can decide it's really off our map (and what did we expect from a hyper, Neronian pantom…
Ordering Knowledge in the Roman Empire
The Romans commanded the largest and most complex empire the world had ever seen, or would see until modern times. The challenges, however, were not just political, economic and military: Rome was also the hub of a vast information network, drawing in worldwide expertise and refashioning it for its own purposes. This fascinating collection of essays considers the dialogue between technical literature and imperial society, drawing on, developing a…
Martial's Rome: Empire and the Ideology of Epigram
This provocative book is a major contribution to our understanding of Martial's poetics, his vision of the relationship between art and reality, and his role in formulating modern perceptions of Rome. The study shows how on every scale from the microscopic to the cosmic, Martial displays epigram's ambition to enact the sociality of urban life, but also to make Rome rise out of epigram's architecture and gestures. Martial's distinctive aesthetic, …
The Best a Man Can Get: Grooming Scipio in Seneca Epistle 86
Seneca and Neronian Rome: In the Mirror of Time
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.
The Cambridge Companion to Seneca
The Roman statesman, philosopher and playwright Lucius Annaeus Seneca dramatically influenced the progression of Western thought. His works have had an unparalleled impact on the development of ethical theory, shaping a code of behavior for dealing with tyranny in his own age that endures today. This Companion thoroughly examines the complete Senecan corpus, with special emphasis on the aspects of his writings that have challenged interpretation.…
The Closure of Space in Roman Poetics: Empire's Inward Turn
This ambitious book investigates a major yet underexplored nexus of themes in Roman cultural history: the evolving tropes of enclosure, retreat and compressed space within expanding, potentially borderless empire. In Roman writers' exploration of real and symbolic enclosures - caves, corners, villas, bathhouses, the 'prison' of the human body itself - we see the aesthetic, philosophical and political intersecting in fascinating ways, as the machi…
Imagining Empire
Philosophy's Folds: Seneca, Cavarero, and the History of Rectitude
This article takes as its stimulus Adriana Cavarero's recent investigation of the postures of rectitude and inclination in the Western philosophical tradition (Cavarero 2013). To showcase how this book might catalyze productive interactions between feminist critics in different areas of the humanities, I will bring Cavarero into dialogue with a thinker she mentions in passing who extensively develops “rectitude as a general principle” (Veyne 2003…
The Creative Superiority of Self-Reproach: Horace’s Ars Poetica
This chapter’s new reading of Horace’s AP teases out how this text negotiates a delicate tension and balance between Horace’s own inferior social status and superior status as older expert, and the superior social status and inferior age/expertise of the young Pisones for whom he writes. It traces how the text renders productive the challenges that result from these asymmetries by modelling and performing a mode of critical thinking centred on se…
Rome’s Dire Straits
This chapter considers the poetics of Roman imperial expansion in three dimensions. It investigates the depth and density of straits and clogged waterways—paradigmatically the Hellespont—in Latin poetry from Catullus to Statius, arguing that such spaces become laboratories for the ways in which poetic and military power is amplified in imperial texts via restriction, contraction, and pressure rather than by expatiation. The aim here is to go beyo…
Motifs of Fire in Imperial Latin Literature (on V. M. Closs, While Rome Burned: (Fire, Leadership, and Urban Disaster in the Roman Cultural Imagination)
SARS-CoV-spread like wildfire in March , Donald Trump retweeted a satiric meme of himself playing a fiddle with the text 'My next piece is called nothing can stop what's coming ', commenting 'Who knows what this means, but it sounds good to me!'.Trump was acknowledging (while pretending, sardonically, not to recognise) the QAnon reference, but was apparently oblivious to the highbrow allusion-Tacitus' infamous sketch of Nero, singing 'The Fall of…
A Commentary on Ovid Remedia Amoris
Commentary on Ovid, Remedia Amoris: Edited with Introduction and Commentary
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