Matthew Leigh
Biographic Data
| ID | 5626196 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Matthew Leigh |
| GIVEN NAMES | Matthew |
| FAMILY NAME | Leigh |
| SIGNATURE | LEIGH M |
| AFFILIATIONS | St. John's College |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1406-1413 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 45 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 117 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 45 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1994 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Lucano, Bellum Civile VIII. Introduzione, testo, traduzione e commento a cura di Alessio Mancini. Berlin
Declamatory fictions and the crimen maiestatis — Seneca, Controuersiae 9.2
This paper examines what Seneca, Controuersiae 9.2 can contribute to understanding of the maiestas laws under Augustus and Tiberius. In this period, two distinct judicial spaces are known to have hosted cases tried under these laws: the traditional Republican standing court and the new senatorial court, which supplanted its predecessor at the latest from the years immediately following the accession of Tiberius. Yet in the same period a third jud…
Nero the Performer
Lucan’s Caesar and Laelius
Vergil’s Second Eclogue and the Class Struggle
Illa domus, illa mihi sedes
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Latin Literature and its Transmission
This is a series of innovative studies in the textual and literary criticism of Latin literature, exploring how these two branches of the discipline are mutually supportive. The contributors include many leading scholars in the field. Individual essays are devoted to Catullus, Cicero, Horace, Lucretius, Ovid, Tacitus and Virgil, and there are also essays on the Renaissance reception of Virgil and on principles of editorial practice. The collectio…
From Polypragmon to Curiosus
This is a study of how Greek and Latin writers describe curious meddlesome, and exaggerated behaviour. Founded on a family of Greek terms, and the Latin words used to describe them, Leigh surveys how they were used in Greek literature from the 5th and 4th centuries BC and their Latin usage in relation to Hellenistic and imperial Greek
From Polypragmon To Curiosus Ancient Concepts Of Curious Meddlesome And Exaggerated Behaviour
This is a study of how Greek and Latin writers describe curious, meddlesome, and exaggerated behavior. Founded on a family of Greek terms, and the Latin words used to describe them, Leigh surveys how they were used in Greek literature from the 5th and 4th centuries BC and their Latin usage in relation to Hellenistic and imperial Greek.
Polypragmosyne and Periergia from Thucydides to Theophrastus
This chapter identifies the various categories in which Greek writers of the fifth and fourth centuries bc employed the terms under discussion. It begins with key passages in Plato, and then takes in the orators, the historians, the tragedians, and the comic writers. The term polypragmon and its cognates polypragmosyne and polypragmonein are shown to apply not only to the behaviour of the individual citizen in regard to his peers but also to the …
Polypragmosyne and Empire
Perhaps the most familiar association of polypragmosyne in the fifth and fourth centuries bc is with the interventionist foreign policy of the Athenian state. This chapter examines the survival of this concept in the Greek usage of the Hellenistic period and beyond. The emphasis now is on how the restless expansion of the state creates opportunities for the individual scholar to expand the frontiers of knowledge. The Greek historian and geographe…
Conclusion
This final chapter draws together the principal results of the foregoing investigation and identifies particular areas of importance. It summarises its analysis regarding the ancient tendency to treat polypragmon, periergos, and philopragmon as synonyms and to use them in Latin as curiosus.
Tacitus, Annals 1.1.1 and Aristotle
The first sentence of the Annals reads urbem Romam a principio reges habuere . Commentators observe the echo of Sallust, Catiline 6.1 urbem Romam, sicuti ego accepi, condidere atque habuere initio Troiani , and of Claudius, ILS 212 quondam reges hanc tenuere urbem . In a stimulating recent contribution David Levene also compares the first sentence of Justinus' Epitome of the Histories of Pompeius Trogus: principio rerum gentium nationumque imperi…
From Polypragmon to Curiosus
Comparing Values of Manufactured and Equivalent Site-Built Homes in the Rural United States
This study examined the owner-reported market value of owned manufactured homes on owned land at the time of the survey and compared those data to self-reported market values for equivalent site-built homes. The data came from the 2009 American Housing Survey, and the sample included owned manufactured homes and site-built homes situated on owned properties that otherwise had equivalent characteristics. We considered homes located in rural areas …
The Garland of Maecenas (Horace, Odes 1.1.35)
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Forms of Exile in the Rudens of Plautus
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Epic and Historiography at Rome
The Aeneid, it might be thought, is pretty demonstrably an epic poem. Not so to one Sulpicius Carthaginiensis whose verdict Donatus quotes in his Life of Vergil (38). For Sulpicius has heard the famous story that Augustus disregarded the poet's death-bed instructions that his poem be burned, and praises the emperor for the care he shows for Roman history (tu, maxime Caesar,/non sinis et Latiae consulis historiae). Vergil's successor Lucan seems t…
Petrarch’s Lucan and the Africa
The Africa is Petrarch’s epic on the Second Punic War and the glorious career of Scipio Africanus Maior. The very rumour of its composition was enough to gain for the poet the laurel crown bestowed on him by the city of Rome in 1341; but the poem itself, jealously guarded by its author, and perhaps finally abandoned as incapable of completion, was still unpublished and massively lacunose at the time of his death in 1374. The work finally crept in…
Roman Tragedy
Mario Erasmo. Roman Tragedy: Theatre to Theatricality. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2004. xii + 211 pp. Cloth, $45
Comedy and the Rise of Rome
Quintilian on the Emotions ( Institutio Oratoria 6 preface and 1–2)
Antiquity records few more cruel twists of fate than that which met the two-time former consul and conqueror of Macedon, L. Aemilius Paullus, on his return to Rome in 167 B.C. The great victory at Pydna the year before had finally removed the major rival to Roman power on the Greek mainland, and the riches generated in the campaign were such as to permit the abolition of direct taxation at Rome. The grant of a triumph should therefore have marked…
Comedy and the Rise of Rome
This book looks at Roman comedy in the light of history and Roman history in the light of comedy. Plautus and Terence base their dramas on the New Comedy of 4th- and 3rd-century BC Greece. Yet many of the themes with which they engage are peculiarly alive in the Rome of the Hannibalic war, and the conquest of Macedon. This study takes issues as diverse as the legal status of the prisoner of war, the ethics of ambush, fatherhood and command, and t…
Ovid and the Lectisternium ( Metamorphoses 8. 651–60)
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Lucan and the Libyan Tale
The theme of this paper is geographical space as intellectual, as symbolic space. Recent scholarship has had much to say about the ways in which the peoples of the ancient Mediterranean interacted with one another, created myths of affinity or established identity by emphasizing what distinguished them from their neighbours. What though is the significance of a landscape where there is next to no human cultivation, which you can never hope to inh…
Lucan
The Pharsalia, Lucan's epic on the civil war between Caesar and Pompey, is a document of fundamental importance for students of the history and literature of Rome in the early imperial period. Whether one is a historian of the Republican opposition to Nero, or a literary critic teasing out the ideological implications of intertextuality, it is impossible to ignore this poem. Taking as his guiding theme the unusual prominence of spectacle and spec…
Wounding and Popular Rhetoric at Rome
Journal Article WOUNDING AND POPULAR RHETORIC AT ROME Get access MATTHEW LEIGH MATTHEW LEIGH University of Exeter Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies, Volume 40, Issue 1, December 1995, Pages 195–215, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.2041-5370.1995.tb00471.x Published: 12 March 2010
Vergil’s Second Eclogue and the Class Struggle
Comedy and the Rise of Rome
This book looks at Roman comedy in the light of history and Roman history in the light of comedy. Plautus and Terence base their dramas on the New Comedy of 4th- and 3rd-century BC Greece. Yet many of the themes with which they engage are peculiarly alive in the Rome of the Hannibalic war, and the conquest of Macedon. This study takes issues as diverse as the legal status of the prisoner of war, the ethics of ambush, fatherhood and command, and t…
Varius Rufus, Thyestes and the appetites of Antony
In 29 B.C., at the ludi Actiaci held to celebrate the victory of Octavian over the forces of Antony and Cleopatra, Rome witnessed the first performance of one of the most celebrated of Roman tragedies, the Thyestes of Varius Rufus. Later critics are in agreement as to the quality of the piece: Curiatius Maternus in the Dialogue on Orators of Tacitus rates it equal to the Medea of Ovid; Quintilian describes it as comparable to any Greek tragedy; P…
Comparing Values of Manufactured and Equivalent Site-Built Homes in the Rural United States
This study examined the owner-reported market value of owned manufactured homes on owned land at the time of the survey and compared those data to self-reported market values for equivalent site-built homes. The data came from the 2009 American Housing Survey, and the sample included owned manufactured homes and site-built homes situated on owned properties that otherwise had equivalent characteristics. We considered homes located in rural areas …
Forms of Exile in the Rudens of Plautus
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Lucan and the Libyan Tale
The theme of this paper is geographical space as intellectual, as symbolic space. Recent scholarship has had much to say about the ways in which the peoples of the ancient Mediterranean interacted with one another, created myths of affinity or established identity by emphasizing what distinguished them from their neighbours. What though is the significance of a landscape where there is next to no human cultivation, which you can never hope to inh…
Servius on Vergil's Senex Corycius
Wounding and Popular Rhetoric at Rome
Journal Article WOUNDING AND POPULAR RHETORIC AT ROME Get access MATTHEW LEIGH MATTHEW LEIGH University of Exeter Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies, Volume 40, Issue 1, December 1995, Pages 195–215, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.2041-5370.1995.tb00471.x Published: 12 March 2010
Apostrophe
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Scaeva-Lucan’s Exemplary Hero
At the height of his aristeia, when apparently overcome at last by his wounds, Caesar’s centurion Scaeva pulls one final trick.
The Crazy Gang-Watching Caesar’s Centurions
This chapter extends the investigation of Lucan’s distanced and perhaps comic or burlesque modes of narration centred on the concepts of spectacle and spectatorship. In particular, it examines Lucan’s reflection of the theme in Caesar’s Commentaries of the deep loyalty of the centurions to their general and of their desire to fight in his sight. In Lucan, it is argued, this ambition is indicative not just of loyalty but of a closed and insane com…
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Dedication
Theories of Tensing in Narrative, the Latin Present Historic, and Lucan’s Vivid Present
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Pompey-The View from the Hill
The dissenting voice with which Lucan narrates the Phrasalia emphasizes the degree of its engagement by contrasting itself with others and deploring their inaction. Frequently the contrasting figure of disengagement is represented as simply watching the action, as a spectator. When that spectator is clearly the Jupiter of the Augustan poets, the refusal to intervene is testimony not just to a generalized apathy but actually to a culpable complici…
The Future Tense in Latin Epic Narrative
Epilogue-Ecstatic Vision and the Tyrant’s Spectacle
The last chapter closed with the kingly visions of Sulla and Caesar, two murderers feasting their eyes on the spectacle of Rome’s transformation. It is pertinent to pause longer on these scenes, to examine farther the mentality they depict.
Passionate Viewing in the Spanish Campaign
At 4. 382-401, Lucan’s ecstatic exclamation evokes the relief of the surrendering Pompeian soldiers now released by Caesar from any further participation in the civil war.
A View To a Kill-Lucan’s Amphitheatrical Audience
In the previous two chapters, different modes of spectacle have been investigated—modes which traditionally serve to communicate a shared and stable ideology but which civil war leaves fractured and dysfunctional. Whether the issue is the collection of scars, battle under the eyes of the general, or the exemplary display of virtus. Lucan’s Scaeva scene has a central position.
Abbrivation
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Gaius Cornelius and the Caesarian Vates
How does the Pharsalia activate the opposition between spectacle and engagement? The following movement, which closes Lucan’s catalogue of omens before the battle of Pharsalus, offers an excellent starting-point for investigation. The account begins with the vague fears felt by Romans as far away even as Cadiz in the West and Armenia in the East.
Pharsalus-Wishing and Watching
If the narrator of the Pharsalia is repeatedly subject to intense emotional involvement in the various crises of the Spanish campaign. there is nevertheless a discernible heightening of engagement as the ep1c reaches its decisive conflict, Pharsalus. One passage from the Pharsalus narrative, 7, 185-213, has already been discussed as a programme for Lucan’s anguished and involved narrative voice; two others, 7. 1-44 and 7. 647-711. provide the foc…
Ovid, Heroides 6.1–2
It is a characteristic of Ovid's Heroides for each epistle implicitly to establish the dramatic time, context and motive for its composition by the particular heroine to whom it is attributed. In this way the poet is able to exploit the tension between the heroine's inevitably circumscribed awareness of the development of her story and the superior information which can be deployed by a reader acquainted with the mythical tradition or master-text…
Lucan
The Pharsalia, Lucan's epic on the civil war between Caesar and Pompey, is a document of fundamental importance for students of the history and literature of Rome in the early imperial period. Whether one is a historian of the Republican opposition to Nero, or a literary critic teasing out the ideological implications of intertextuality, it is impossible to ignore this poem. Taking as his guiding theme the unusual prominence of spectacle and spec…
Varius Rufus, Thyestes and the appetites of Antony
In 29 B.C., at the ludi Actiaci held to celebrate the victory of Octavian over the forces of Antony and Cleopatra, Rome witnessed the first performance of one of the most celebrated of Roman tragedies, the Thyestes of Varius Rufus. Later critics are in agreement as to the quality of the piece: Curiatius Maternus in the Dialogue on Orators of Tacitus rates it equal to the Medea of Ovid; Quintilian describes it as comparable to any Greek tragedy; P…
Lucan and the Libyan Tale
The theme of this paper is geographical space as intellectual, as symbolic space. Recent scholarship has had much to say about the ways in which the peoples of the ancient Mediterranean interacted with one another, created myths of affinity or established identity by emphasizing what distinguished them from their neighbours. What though is the significance of a landscape where there is next to no human cultivation, which you can never hope to inh…
Two Notes on Ovid
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Ovid and the Lectisternium ( Metamorphoses 8. 651–60)
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Quintilian on the Emotions ( Institutio Oratoria 6 preface and 1–2)
Antiquity records few more cruel twists of fate than that which met the two-time former consul and conqueror of Macedon, L. Aemilius Paullus, on his return to Rome in 167 B.C. The great victory at Pydna the year before had finally removed the major rival to Roman power on the Greek mainland, and the riches generated in the campaign were such as to permit the abolition of direct taxation at Rome. The grant of a triumph should therefore have marked…
Comedy and the Rise of Rome
This book looks at Roman comedy in the light of history and Roman history in the light of comedy. Plautus and Terence base their dramas on the New Comedy of 4th- and 3rd-century BC Greece. Yet many of the themes with which they engage are peculiarly alive in the Rome of the Hannibalic war, and the conquest of Macedon. This study takes issues as diverse as the legal status of the prisoner of war, the ethics of ambush, fatherhood and command, and t…
Roman Tragedy
Mario Erasmo. Roman Tragedy: Theatre to Theatricality. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2004. xii + 211 pp. Cloth, $45
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