Carole Newlands
Biographic Data
| ID | 5626295 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Carole Newlands |
| GIVEN NAMES | Carole |
| FAMILY NAME | Newlands |
| SIGNATURE | NEWLANDS C |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 61 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 14 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1986 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Rewriting Catullus in the Flavian Age
The Flavian Age marked a decisive political break with the Julio-Claudian past. And yet Flavian literature has been repeatedly defined through a sense of epigonality, one that it itself cultivated, as Hinds observes. But, as Hutchinson comments of modern European literature, which also defines itself through ‘an anxiety of lateness’, backward-looking paradoxically can be associated with forward-thinking; lateness is one of the animating impulses …
Fatal Unions
Marriage is at the heart of Statius’ Thebaid. The hell of civil war, the epic’s theme, derives from the incestuous union of Jocasta and Oedipus. At the start of Statius’ epic Oedipus, contrary to Sophoclean tradition, is not in exile but is still present at Thebes; likewise Jocasta is still alive and dwelling in the palace. Their discordant, incestuous marriage is not just a mark of shame for past crime but a present, spreading contamination of a…
Architectural Ecphrasis in Roman Poetry
Chapter Six. The Eruption Of Vesuvius In The Epistles Of Statius And Pliny
This chapter focuses on two of the Silvae , their analysis here is directed to showing how the letter, which can appear within poetry or prose, constitutes common ground between Statius in the Silvae and Pliny in the Epistles . It suggests that for Statius as well as for Pliny the letter, with its personal address and focus on the author, provided an effective format for writing of recent history, for it allowed a catastrophe of superhuman dimens…
Select Ovid
The teaching of Ovid’s Metamorphoses , a popular text for intermediate and advanced-level undergraduates, of necessity involves selected myths. But as a result the students are not given a sense of the poem’s complex thematic interrelationships or of its sophisticated chronological sweep; selections also often overlook the importance of the female voice in Ovid’s epic. Read in isolation, moreover, the stories generally invite a moralizing approac…
Book-Ends’
My purpose in this article is straightforward, to counter some misconceptions about two of Statius' poems, Silu. 2.1, his consolatory poem for the death of the twelve-year old Glaucias, and Silu. 2.7, his consolatory poem for the death of the poet Lucan. These are the first and last poems of Book 2. Poems of lament and consolation constitute the majority of the poems of Statius' Siluae . Yet these poems have been generally dismissed as wearisomel…
Mandati memores
Ovid’s Fasti , his elegiac poem on the Roman calendar, begins where his Metamorphoses leaves off, in present, imperial time. The Fasti has sometimes simply been plumbed as a random source of historical or anthropological knowledge. But as a poem about Rome and its complex imperial present as well as its past, the Fasti offers important insights into the mentality of Roman society at a crucial juncture of cultural development in the late Augustan …
The Cambridge Companion to Ovid
Ovid was one of the greatest writers of classical antiquity, and arguably the single most influential ancient poet for post-classical literature and culture. In this Cambridge Companion, chapters by leading authorities from Europe and North America discuss the backgrounds and contexts for Ovid, the individual works, and his influence on later literature and art. Coverage of essential information is combined with exciting critical approaches. This…
The Face of Nature
The Metamorphosis of Ovid's Medea
The Role of the Book in Tristia 3.1
The third book of the Tristia is the first to have been written in Tomis, Ovid's place of exile. The long journey from Rome, the subject of the first book of the Tristia , is over. The distractions of the journey can no longer sustain him, and his only pleasure is to weep, in other words to write the elegy of lament: dum tamen et uentis dubius iactabar et undis, fallebat curas aegraque corda labor: ut uia finita est, et opus requieuit eundi, et p…
Medea
Silvae 3.1 and Statius' Poetic Temple
In the preface to each book of his collected poems, the Silvae , Statius writes in the apologetic mode. Addressing his friend Arruntius Stella in the preface to Book 1, he claims that his poems are mere impromptu productions, ‘qui mini subito calore et quadam festinandi voluptate fluxerunt’, and he worries that by the time they reach publication they may have lost their only charm, that of speed, ‘celeritas’. Statius makes the same claims for imp…
The Simile of the Fractured Pipe in Ovid's Metamorphoses 4
When Pyramus, the romantic hero of Ovid's tale of ‘Pyramus and Thisbe’ ( Met. 4.55-166), mistakenly assumes his beloved Thisbe is dead and thus kills himself beneath a mulberry tree with a sword, Ovid punctures this moment of tragic pathos by a simile comparing the blood spurting from Pyramus' wound to water gushing from a broken pipe (4.119-24): demisit in ilia ferrum, nec mora, ferventi moriens e vulnere traxit et iacuit resupinus humo: cruor e…
Medea
Silvae 3.1 and Statius' Poetic Temple
In the preface to each book of his collected poems, the Silvae , Statius writes in the apologetic mode. Addressing his friend Arruntius Stella in the preface to Book 1, he claims that his poems are mere impromptu productions, ‘qui mini subito calore et quadam festinandi voluptate fluxerunt’, and he worries that by the time they reach publication they may have lost their only charm, that of speed, ‘celeritas’. Statius makes the same claims for imp…
The Role of the Book in Tristia 3.1
The third book of the Tristia is the first to have been written in Tomis, Ovid's place of exile. The long journey from Rome, the subject of the first book of the Tristia , is over. The distractions of the journey can no longer sustain him, and his only pleasure is to weep, in other words to write the elegy of lament: dum tamen et uentis dubius iactabar et undis, fallebat curas aegraque corda labor: ut uia finita est, et opus requieuit eundi, et p…
The Face of Nature
Book-Ends’
My purpose in this article is straightforward, to counter some misconceptions about two of Statius' poems, Silu. 2.1, his consolatory poem for the death of the twelve-year old Glaucias, and Silu. 2.7, his consolatory poem for the death of the poet Lucan. These are the first and last poems of Book 2. Poems of lament and consolation constitute the majority of the poems of Statius' Siluae . Yet these poems have been generally dismissed as wearisomel…
The Simile of the Fractured Pipe in Ovid's Metamorphoses 4
When Pyramus, the romantic hero of Ovid's tale of ‘Pyramus and Thisbe’ ( Met. 4.55-166), mistakenly assumes his beloved Thisbe is dead and thus kills himself beneath a mulberry tree with a sword, Ovid punctures this moment of tragic pathos by a simile comparing the blood spurting from Pyramus' wound to water gushing from a broken pipe (4.119-24): demisit in ilia ferrum, nec mora, ferventi moriens e vulnere traxit et iacuit resupinus humo: cruor e…
Silvae 3.1 and Statius' Poetic Temple
In the preface to each book of his collected poems, the Silvae , Statius writes in the apologetic mode. Addressing his friend Arruntius Stella in the preface to Book 1, he claims that his poems are mere impromptu productions, ‘qui mini subito calore et quadam festinandi voluptate fluxerunt’, and he worries that by the time they reach publication they may have lost their only charm, that of speed, ‘celeritas’. Statius makes the same claims for imp…
The Metamorphosis of Ovid's Medea
The Role of the Book in Tristia 3.1
The third book of the Tristia is the first to have been written in Tomis, Ovid's place of exile. The long journey from Rome, the subject of the first book of the Tristia , is over. The distractions of the journey can no longer sustain him, and his only pleasure is to weep, in other words to write the elegy of lament: dum tamen et uentis dubius iactabar et undis, fallebat curas aegraque corda labor: ut uia finita est, et opus requieuit eundi, et p…
Medea
The Face of Nature
Mandati memores
Ovid’s Fasti , his elegiac poem on the Roman calendar, begins where his Metamorphoses leaves off, in present, imperial time. The Fasti has sometimes simply been plumbed as a random source of historical or anthropological knowledge. But as a poem about Rome and its complex imperial present as well as its past, the Fasti offers important insights into the mentality of Roman society at a crucial juncture of cultural development in the late Augustan …
The Cambridge Companion to Ovid
Ovid was one of the greatest writers of classical antiquity, and arguably the single most influential ancient poet for post-classical literature and culture. In this Cambridge Companion, chapters by leading authorities from Europe and North America discuss the backgrounds and contexts for Ovid, the individual works, and his influence on later literature and art. Coverage of essential information is combined with exciting critical approaches. This…
Book-Ends’
My purpose in this article is straightforward, to counter some misconceptions about two of Statius' poems, Silu. 2.1, his consolatory poem for the death of the twelve-year old Glaucias, and Silu. 2.7, his consolatory poem for the death of the poet Lucan. These are the first and last poems of Book 2. Poems of lament and consolation constitute the majority of the poems of Statius' Siluae . Yet these poems have been generally dismissed as wearisomel…
Select Ovid
The teaching of Ovid’s Metamorphoses , a popular text for intermediate and advanced-level undergraduates, of necessity involves selected myths. But as a result the students are not given a sense of the poem’s complex thematic interrelationships or of its sophisticated chronological sweep; selections also often overlook the importance of the female voice in Ovid’s epic. Read in isolation, moreover, the stories generally invite a moralizing approac…
Chapter Six. The Eruption Of Vesuvius In The Epistles Of Statius And Pliny
This chapter focuses on two of the Silvae , their analysis here is directed to showing how the letter, which can appear within poetry or prose, constitutes common ground between Statius in the Silvae and Pliny in the Epistles . It suggests that for Statius as well as for Pliny the letter, with its personal address and focus on the author, provided an effective format for writing of recent history, for it allowed a catastrophe of superhuman dimens…
Architectural Ecphrasis in Roman Poetry
Fatal Unions
Marriage is at the heart of Statius’ Thebaid. The hell of civil war, the epic’s theme, derives from the incestuous union of Jocasta and Oedipus. At the start of Statius’ epic Oedipus, contrary to Sophoclean tradition, is not in exile but is still present at Thebes; likewise Jocasta is still alive and dwelling in the palace. Their discordant, incestuous marriage is not just a mark of shame for past crime but a present, spreading contamination of a…
Rewriting Catullus in the Flavian Age
The Flavian Age marked a decisive political break with the Julio-Claudian past. And yet Flavian literature has been repeatedly defined through a sense of epigonality, one that it itself cultivated, as Hinds observes. But, as Hutchinson comments of modern European literature, which also defines itself through ‘an anxiety of lateness’, backward-looking paradoxically can be associated with forward-thinking; lateness is one of the animating impulses …
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