Emily Gowers
Biographic Data
| ID | 5626581 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Emily Gowers |
| GIVEN NAMES | Emily |
| FAMILY NAME | Gowers |
| SIGNATURE | GOWERS E |
| AFFILIATIONS | St. John's College of Nursing |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 29 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1993 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Rome's Patron: The Lives and Afterlives of Maecenas
Ennius Perennis: The Annals and Beyond
Why Isn’t Homer in Vergil’s Underworld? – and Other Notable Absences
The Cor of Ennius
Noises Off: The Thyestes Theme in Tacitus’ Dialogus
Dido and the Owl
The Road to Sicily: Lucilius to Seneca
One of Horace's best-known allegations in Epistles 1 is that where in the world you are is neither here nor there, as long as you have peace of mind ( animus aequus ): caelum non animum mutant qui trans mare currunt. strenua nos exercet inertia; nauibus atque quadrigis petimus bene uiuere. quod petis, hie est, est Vlubris, animus si te non deficit aequus. (Hor. Ep . 1.11.27-30) Cross the sea, and you change your climate, not your mental state. Re…
Dangerous Sailing: Valerius Maximus and the Suppression of Sextus Pompeius
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Augustus and ‘Syracuse’
Suetonius ( Aug. 72.2) records among the habits of Augustus his inclination to retreat from time to time to a place he called ‘Syracuse’ or his ‘technophuon’ (workshop). These names have been variously explained, without agreement. The paper argues that ‘Syracuse’ evokes a complex of associations beyond the obvious connection with Archimedes and his inventions. By recalling other well-known figures, such as Marcellus and Dionysius, as well as Aug…
The restless companion: Horace, Satires 1 and 2
Horace’s two books of Satires have always lurked in the shadow of the Odes . Aside from such favourite anecdotes as the much-translated encounter with a literary gatecrasher on the Via Sacra, or the “granny’s tale” of the town mouse and the country mouse, they have for the most part been found strange, profoundly unsatisfying poems, whose self-deprecating tone has condemned them to neglect. They are also, by most standards, astonishingly unsatiri…
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…
Virgil’s Sibyl and the ‘Many Mouths’ Cliché ( Aen. 6.625–7)
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Blind Eyes and Cut Throats: Amnesia and Silence in Horace "Satires" 1.7
Apuleius and Persius
Persius the Neronian satlnst is an unlikely influence on Apuleius. One is as abrasive and awkward in his approach to the reader as the other is smooth and charming. Nevertheless, there are several ways in which the Metamorphoses Prologue gains in significance by being read as a response to Persius. I. The two unconventional philosophers draw on many of the same images to characterize their different styles of teaching: in particular, the stubborn…
Vegetable Love: Virgil, Columella, and Garden Poetry
In 65 CE, a Spanish writer appointed himself Virgil's heir and stepped into a breach that did not really exist. L. Iunius Moderatus Columella chose to attach to his self-styled prose ‘monument’ of agricultural instruction an ornamental didactic poem on gardening, to fill the gap apparently left by Virgil at the start of Georgic 4. The result has been regarded for the most part as a misguided experiment, an uninspired pastiche of clippings and hal…
The Anatomy of Rome from Capitol to Cloaca
‘Can I fix Rome for you on this poor sheet of paper?’ Something like Petrarch's lament must precede any attempt to sum up Rome in words; only an Atlas could do justice to the vast weight of such a city. But there is at least one compensation: we are describing a city that we all know, or think we know. For Montaigne, it was the first city that entered his consciousness: ‘I have had knowledge of the affairs of Rome long time before I had knowledge…
The Loaded Table: Representations of Food in Roman Literature
This book offers a novel and unconventional approach to Roman culture, through food - or rather, food as it is represented in literature. Food is not generally thought of as the noblest of literary subjects, and this view is a legacy from the Romans, so it is curious that Roman writers chose so persistently to depict their society at the dinner-table. Why this was so, and what effect the inclusion of food had on the status of the literary texts t…
Vegetable Love: Virgil, Columella, and Garden Poetry
In 65 CE, a Spanish writer appointed himself Virgil's heir and stepped into a breach that did not really exist. L. Iunius Moderatus Columella chose to attach to his self-styled prose ‘monument’ of agricultural instruction an ornamental didactic poem on gardening, to fill the gap apparently left by Virgil at the start of Georgic 4. The result has been regarded for the most part as a misguided experiment, an uninspired pastiche of clippings and hal…
Augustus and ‘Syracuse’
Suetonius ( Aug. 72.2) records among the habits of Augustus his inclination to retreat from time to time to a place he called ‘Syracuse’ or his ‘technophuon’ (workshop). These names have been variously explained, without agreement. The paper argues that ‘Syracuse’ evokes a complex of associations beyond the obvious connection with Archimedes and his inventions. By recalling other well-known figures, such as Marcellus and Dionysius, as well as Aug…
Blind Eyes and Cut Throats: Amnesia and Silence in Horace "Satires" 1.7
Virgil’s Sibyl and the ‘Many Mouths’ Cliché ( Aen. 6.625–7)
An abstract 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 Road to Sicily: Lucilius to Seneca
One of Horace's best-known allegations in Epistles 1 is that where in the world you are is neither here nor there, as long as you have peace of mind ( animus aequus ): caelum non animum mutant qui trans mare currunt. strenua nos exercet inertia; nauibus atque quadrigis petimus bene uiuere. quod petis, hie est, est Vlubris, animus si te non deficit aequus. (Hor. Ep . 1.11.27-30) Cross the sea, and you change your climate, not your mental state. Re…
The Loaded Table: Representations of Food in Roman Literature
This book offers a novel and unconventional approach to Roman culture, through food - or rather, food as it is represented in literature. Food is not generally thought of as the noblest of literary subjects, and this view is a legacy from the Romans, so it is curious that Roman writers chose so persistently to depict their society at the dinner-table. Why this was so, and what effect the inclusion of food had on the status of the literary texts t…
The Anatomy of Rome from Capitol to Cloaca
‘Can I fix Rome for you on this poor sheet of paper?’ Something like Petrarch's lament must precede any attempt to sum up Rome in words; only an Atlas could do justice to the vast weight of such a city. But there is at least one compensation: we are describing a city that we all know, or think we know. For Montaigne, it was the first city that entered his consciousness: ‘I have had knowledge of the affairs of Rome long time before I had knowledge…
Vegetable Love: Virgil, Columella, and Garden Poetry
In 65 CE, a Spanish writer appointed himself Virgil's heir and stepped into a breach that did not really exist. L. Iunius Moderatus Columella chose to attach to his self-styled prose ‘monument’ of agricultural instruction an ornamental didactic poem on gardening, to fill the gap apparently left by Virgil at the start of Georgic 4. The result has been regarded for the most part as a misguided experiment, an uninspired pastiche of clippings and hal…
Apuleius and Persius
Persius the Neronian satlnst is an unlikely influence on Apuleius. One is as abrasive and awkward in his approach to the reader as the other is smooth and charming. Nevertheless, there are several ways in which the Metamorphoses Prologue gains in significance by being read as a response to Persius. I. The two unconventional philosophers draw on many of the same images to characterize their different styles of teaching: in particular, the stubborn…
Blind Eyes and Cut Throats: Amnesia and Silence in Horace "Satires" 1.7
The restless companion: Horace, Satires 1 and 2
Horace’s two books of Satires have always lurked in the shadow of the Odes . Aside from such favourite anecdotes as the much-translated encounter with a literary gatecrasher on the Via Sacra, or the “granny’s tale” of the town mouse and the country mouse, they have for the most part been found strange, profoundly unsatisfying poems, whose self-deprecating tone has condemned them to neglect. They are also, by most standards, astonishingly unsatiri…
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…
Virgil’s Sibyl and the ‘Many Mouths’ Cliché ( Aen. 6.625–7)
An abstract 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
Dangerous Sailing: Valerius Maximus and the Suppression of Sextus Pompeius
An abstract 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
Augustus and ‘Syracuse’
Suetonius ( Aug. 72.2) records among the habits of Augustus his inclination to retreat from time to time to a place he called ‘Syracuse’ or his ‘technophuon’ (workshop). These names have been variously explained, without agreement. The paper argues that ‘Syracuse’ evokes a complex of associations beyond the obvious connection with Archimedes and his inventions. By recalling other well-known figures, such as Marcellus and Dionysius, as well as Aug…
The Road to Sicily: Lucilius to Seneca
One of Horace's best-known allegations in Epistles 1 is that where in the world you are is neither here nor there, as long as you have peace of mind ( animus aequus ): caelum non animum mutant qui trans mare currunt. strenua nos exercet inertia; nauibus atque quadrigis petimus bene uiuere. quod petis, hie est, est Vlubris, animus si te non deficit aequus. (Hor. Ep . 1.11.27-30) Cross the sea, and you change your climate, not your mental state. Re…
Noises Off: The Thyestes Theme in Tacitus’ Dialogus
Dido and the Owl
Ennius Perennis: The Annals and Beyond
Why Isn’t Homer in Vergil’s Underworld? – and Other Notable Absences
The Cor of Ennius
Rome's Patron: The Lives and Afterlives of Maecenas
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