Kathleen Coleman
Biographic Data
| ID | 5626202 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kathleen Coleman |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kathleen |
| FAMILY NAME | Coleman |
| SIGNATURE | COLEMAN K |
| AFFILIATIONS | Harvard University Press |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 229 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1990 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Martial (Marcus Valerius Martialis)
The Spanish poet Martial, who moved to Rome ca. 64 ce , composed fifteen books of epigrams between the reigns of Titus and Trajan. His reflection of contemporary social life is both vivid and stridently opinionated; his purpose is wit, not impartiality. He expresses contemporary prejudices against foreigners and other minorities, and is notorious for his obscenity. He flatters his many influential patrons, most prominently the emperor Domitian, w…
Rutilius Gallicus, Gaius
Gaius Rutilius Gallicus (ca. 25–92 CE ) was a distinguished Roman senator from Turin, mentioned in nineteen surviving inscriptions ( PIR 2 R248) and celebrated in a poem by the society poet Statius ( Silvae 1.4;).
Valuing Others in the Gladiatorial Barracks
Spectacle
The spectacles of the arena and the circus, although beneath mention in sophisticated discourse, were a pervasive cultural force in Roman society. More pervasive in the towns and cities of the Roman Empire, although still perhaps seasonally determined, were the informal entertainers (acrobats, tightrope walkers, jugglers, conjurors, fire eaters, strongmen, puppeteers, fortune-tellers, street-musicians, and other itinerant showmen of antiquity). T…
Cacemphaton in the Labyrinth: Ovid, Heroides 10.71
Stones In The Forest: Epigraphic Allusion In The Silvae
In occasional poetry such as the Silvae , which commemorate the triumphs and sorrows of daily life, it would be natural to expect inscriptions to feature prominently; but they do not, perhaps precisely because they are too quotidian for a body of work that seeks to raise the everyday to a new plane of enhanced reality. In order to highlight this remarkable lacuna , this chapter looks briefly at some of the ways in which inscriptions are quoted in…
Poetry for Patrons. Literary Communication in the Age of Domitian
Founded in 1683 in Leiden, the Netherlands, Brill is a leading international academic publisher in the Humanities, Social Sciences, International Law, and Biology. With offices in the Netherlands, Germany, Austria, the USA and Asia, Brill today publishes more than 360 journals and 2,000 new books and reference works each year as well as a large number of databases and primary source research collections
Roman Baths and Bathing
The contagion of the throng’: Absorbing violence in the Roman world
This essay examines the spectacles of the Roman amphitheatre—gladiatorial combat, displays involving animals, and the execution of criminals—as an example of orchestrated violence integral to the functioning of society, and tries to account for their spectator-appeal. The evidence of literary, epigraphic, and artistic sources from the Roman Empire suggests a range of important factors: the ubiquity of violent crime in Antiquity, and of its coroll…
The Lucrine Lake at Juvenal 4.141
The solution to the problem posed by the presentation of the giant turbot to Domitian is put forward by Montanus, a gourmet well qualified to adjudicate in such matters: one bite was sufficient for him to distinguish between oysters from Circeii, the Lucrine, or Richborough (Juv. 4.140–2). The text reads
Launching into History: Aquatic Displays in the Early Empire
Dio devotes almost an entire chapter to the aquatic displays forming part of Titus' one hundred days of spectacles to celebrate the inauguration in A.D. 80 of the Flavian Amphitheatre (which he calls θέατρον [κυνηγετικόν]). He is not without limitations as an historian; but when his testimony contains details which are difficult to explain, it is not to be dismissed out of hand
Tiresias the Judge: Ovid, Metamorphoses 3.322–38
Incongruity and anachronism characterize Ovid's treatment of the gods and mythological figures in the Metamorphoses ; frequently the resulting discrepancy between the superhuman world of mythology and characteristic aspects of Roman society serves to pillory that society as well as to undermine the dignity of the traditional mythology. Linguistic parody is one of the tools Ovid uses to highlight these discrepancies. An example recently noted is t…
Fatal Charades: Roman Executions Staged as Mythological Enactments
Tertullian, illustrating the sacrilegious nature of pagan religion, records that in an auditorium he saw a person being burned to death in the role of Hercules and another being castrated as Attis; both of these examples he adduces to substantiate his assertion to his pagan audience that ‘criminals often adopt the roles of your deities’ (‘et ipsos deos vestros saepe noxii induunt’). The practice that Tertullian here deplores is the subject of thi…
Fatal Charades: Roman Executions Staged as Mythological Enactments
Tertullian, illustrating the sacrilegious nature of pagan religion, records that in an auditorium he saw a person being burned to death in the role of Hercules and another being castrated as Attis; both of these examples he adduces to substantiate his assertion to his pagan audience that ‘criminals often adopt the roles of your deities’ (‘et ipsos deos vestros saepe noxii induunt’). The practice that Tertullian here deplores is the subject of thi…
Launching into History: Aquatic Displays in the Early Empire
Dio devotes almost an entire chapter to the aquatic displays forming part of Titus' one hundred days of spectacles to celebrate the inauguration in A.D. 80 of the Flavian Amphitheatre (which he calls θέατρον [κυνηγετικόν]). He is not without limitations as an historian; but when his testimony contains details which are difficult to explain, it is not to be dismissed out of hand
Poetry for Patrons. Literary Communication in the Age of Domitian
Founded in 1683 in Leiden, the Netherlands, Brill is a leading international academic publisher in the Humanities, Social Sciences, International Law, and Biology. With offices in the Netherlands, Germany, Austria, the USA and Asia, Brill today publishes more than 360 journals and 2,000 new books and reference works each year as well as a large number of databases and primary source research collections
The Lucrine Lake at Juvenal 4.141
The solution to the problem posed by the presentation of the giant turbot to Domitian is put forward by Montanus, a gourmet well qualified to adjudicate in such matters: one bite was sufficient for him to distinguish between oysters from Circeii, the Lucrine, or Richborough (Juv. 4.140–2). The text reads
Tiresias the Judge: Ovid, Metamorphoses 3.322–38
Incongruity and anachronism characterize Ovid's treatment of the gods and mythological figures in the Metamorphoses ; frequently the resulting discrepancy between the superhuman world of mythology and characteristic aspects of Roman society serves to pillory that society as well as to undermine the dignity of the traditional mythology. Linguistic parody is one of the tools Ovid uses to highlight these discrepancies. An example recently noted is t…
Fatal Charades: Roman Executions Staged as Mythological Enactments
Tertullian, illustrating the sacrilegious nature of pagan religion, records that in an auditorium he saw a person being burned to death in the role of Hercules and another being castrated as Attis; both of these examples he adduces to substantiate his assertion to his pagan audience that ‘criminals often adopt the roles of your deities’ (‘et ipsos deos vestros saepe noxii induunt’). The practice that Tertullian here deplores is the subject of thi…
Launching into History: Aquatic Displays in the Early Empire
Dio devotes almost an entire chapter to the aquatic displays forming part of Titus' one hundred days of spectacles to celebrate the inauguration in A.D. 80 of the Flavian Amphitheatre (which he calls θέατρον [κυνηγετικόν]). He is not without limitations as an historian; but when his testimony contains details which are difficult to explain, it is not to be dismissed out of hand
The Lucrine Lake at Juvenal 4.141
The solution to the problem posed by the presentation of the giant turbot to Domitian is put forward by Montanus, a gourmet well qualified to adjudicate in such matters: one bite was sufficient for him to distinguish between oysters from Circeii, the Lucrine, or Richborough (Juv. 4.140–2). The text reads
The contagion of the throng’: Absorbing violence in the Roman world
This essay examines the spectacles of the Roman amphitheatre—gladiatorial combat, displays involving animals, and the execution of criminals—as an example of orchestrated violence integral to the functioning of society, and tries to account for their spectator-appeal. The evidence of literary, epigraphic, and artistic sources from the Roman Empire suggests a range of important factors: the ubiquity of violent crime in Antiquity, and of its coroll…
Roman Baths and Bathing
Poetry for Patrons. Literary Communication in the Age of Domitian
Founded in 1683 in Leiden, the Netherlands, Brill is a leading international academic publisher in the Humanities, Social Sciences, International Law, and Biology. With offices in the Netherlands, Germany, Austria, the USA and Asia, Brill today publishes more than 360 journals and 2,000 new books and reference works each year as well as a large number of databases and primary source research collections
Stones In The Forest: Epigraphic Allusion In The Silvae
In occasional poetry such as the Silvae , which commemorate the triumphs and sorrows of daily life, it would be natural to expect inscriptions to feature prominently; but they do not, perhaps precisely because they are too quotidian for a body of work that seeks to raise the everyday to a new plane of enhanced reality. In order to highlight this remarkable lacuna , this chapter looks briefly at some of the ways in which inscriptions are quoted in…
Valuing Others in the Gladiatorial Barracks
Spectacle
The spectacles of the arena and the circus, although beneath mention in sophisticated discourse, were a pervasive cultural force in Roman society. More pervasive in the towns and cities of the Roman Empire, although still perhaps seasonally determined, were the informal entertainers (acrobats, tightrope walkers, jugglers, conjurors, fire eaters, strongmen, puppeteers, fortune-tellers, street-musicians, and other itinerant showmen of antiquity). T…
Cacemphaton in the Labyrinth: Ovid, Heroides 10.71
Rutilius Gallicus, Gaius
Gaius Rutilius Gallicus (ca. 25–92 CE ) was a distinguished Roman senator from Turin, mentioned in nineteen surviving inscriptions ( PIR 2 R248) and celebrated in a poem by the society poet Statius ( Silvae 1.4;).
Martial (Marcus Valerius Martialis)
The Spanish poet Martial, who moved to Rome ca. 64 ce , composed fifteen books of epigrams between the reigns of Titus and Trajan. His reflection of contemporary social life is both vivid and stridently opinionated; his purpose is wit, not impartiality. He expresses contemporary prejudices against foreigners and other minorities, and is notorious for his obscenity. He flatters his many influential patrons, most prominently the emperor Domitian, w…
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