Antony Augoustakis
Biographic Data
| ID | 5627980 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Antony Augoustakis |
| GIVEN NAMES | Antony |
| FAMILY NAME | Augoustakis |
| SIGNATURE | AUGOUSTAKIS A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Baylor University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 39 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 30 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 25 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 14 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Oxford Commentaries on Flavian Poetry: Silius Italicus: Punica, Book 3
Oxford Commentaries on Flavian Poetry: Valerius Flaccus: Argonautica: Book 8
Screening Love and War in Troy
This is the first volume of essays published on the television series Troy: Fall of a City (BBC One and Netflix, 2018). Covering a wide range of engaging topics, such as gender, race and politics, international scholars in the fields of classics, history and film studies discuss how the story of Troy has been recreated on screen to suit the expectations of modern audiences. The series is commended for the thought-provoking way it handles importan…
Women in Classical Video Games
Despite the prevalence of video games set in or inspired by classical antiquity, the medium has to date remained markedly understudied in the disciplines of classics and ancient history, with the role of women in these video games especially neglected. Women in Classical Video Games seeks to address this imbalance as the first book-length work of scholarship to examine the depiction of women in video games set in classical antiquity. The volume s…
Geographies of Myth and Places of Identity
Turning to a region of South Italy associated with Greater Greece and the geographies of Homer’s Odyssey, Marco Benoît Carbone delivers a historical and ethnographic treatment of how places defined in public imagination and media by their associated histories become sites of memory and identity, as their landscape and mythologies turn into insignia of a romanticised antiquity. For the ancient Greeks, Homer had set the marine monsters of the Odyss…
Reception of Cleopatra in the Age of Mass Media
This study examines the reception of Cleopatra from the beginning of the 20th century to the present day as it has been reflected in popular culture in the United States of America. Daugherty provides a broad overview of the influence of the Egyptian queen by looking at her presence in film, novels, comics, cartoons, TV shows, music, advertising and toys. The aim of the book is to show the different ways in which the figure of Cleopatra was able …
Silius Italicus' "Punica" Rome's war with Hannibal
This book offers, in one volume, a modern English translation of all 17 books of Silius Italicus’ Punica. Composed in the first century CE, this epic tells the story of the Second Punic War between Rome and Hannibal’s Carthage (218-202 BCE). It is not only a crucial text for students of Flavian literature, but also an important source for anyone studying early Imperial perspectives on the Roman Republic. The translation is clear and comprehensibl…
Scylla’s lament in the Ciris and the Latin literary tradition
In this chapter, Scylla’s lament in the Ciris and its complex intertextual links with other poems of the Augustan and imperial periods are considered. The hypothesis is advanced that, if this poem is an intentionally anachronistic Roman fake in a post-Virgilian or post-Ovidian world, it establishes a dialogue with contemporary Neronian or Flavian poetry by remaining relevant in an imperial, rather than a Republican, landscape as a poem to which p…
Fides in Flavian Literature
Campania in the Flavian Poets’ Imagination
This introductory chapter begins with an overview of the representation of Campania, a region noted for its fertility and volcanic landscape, in Latin literature before the period of the Flavian emperors, Vespasian and his sons Titus and Domitian. The chapter also provides an overview of the portrayal of the region by the Flavian authors examined in this volume. For these writers, in particular, who include Martial, Silius Italicus, Statius, and …
Campania in the Flavian Poetic Imagination
Slave Theater in the Roman Republic
Reviewed by: Slave Theater in the Roman Republic: Plautus and Popular Comedy by Amy Richlin Antony Augoustakis Amy Richlin. Slave Theater in the Roman Republic: Plautus and Popular Comedy. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2017. Pp. xvi, 563. $147.00. ISBN 978-1-107-15231-1. This is a masterful study of how the Roman palliata helps us recover the experience of slaves, their feelings and ideas, in the Roman center but also the ot…
Epic Heroes on Screen
Epic Heroes on Screen
Burial scenes
STARZ Spartacus
Gladiator, rebel slave leader, revolutionary: a collection of essays dissecting four seasons of STARZ SpartacusThe figure of Spartacus often serves as an icon of resistance against oppression in modern political movements, while his legend has inspired numerous receptions over the centuries in many different popular media. This new essay collection brings together a wide range of scholarly perspectives on the four seasons of the acclaimed and hig…
Statius, Thebaid 8
'Thebaid' is a Latin epic, composed by Statius in AD 80-92, about the mythological story of the expedition of the 7 warriors against Thebes. Book 8 opens with the descent of the Argive seer Amphiaraus to the underworld through a chasm of the earth; the soldiers mourn their seer's loss and elect a successor, Thiodamas, who placates Earth (Tellus) through a prayer, before the opening of the second day of hostilities
Literary Culture
While the Flavians broadly sought to distance themselves from the reign of Nero, there were continuities in practices related to cultural patronage, as seen in the promotion of literary activity under Nero and Domitian. Domitian's painstaking efforts to restore library collections and in securing authoritative replacement copies are noteworthy. The institution of public or semi-public recitationes dates back to Asinius Pollio in the Augustan age,…
STARZ Spartacus
Introduction
Burial and Lament in Flavian Epic
This chapter discusses the importance of burial and lament in Flavian epic, especially in conjunction with mothers and fathers. First, I look at Silius' Pyrene and Statius' Psamathe as examples of bereft mothers whose death is accentuated in the narrative as a marker of upcoming events. Then I study the importance of male lament as a confirmation and consolidation of male power. The passages discussed in this chapter amply demonstrate that wherea…
Achilles and the Poetics of Manhood
This article examines the binarism Europe/Asia in Statius’ Achilleid as a means to understand the polarities of male/female, West/East, Greek/barbarian, and ultimately Roman/non-Roman. I demonstrate that Helen’s abduction by Paris and the discourse on the succession of empires in Statius’ poem reflect Thetis’ own transformation of Achilles into a woman. Through his cross-dressing and the impregnation of Deidamia, marked in the text as a violent a…
Effigies of Atia and Servilia
The chapter, “Effigies of Atia and Servilia: Effacing the Female Body in Rome,” by Antony Augoustakis, unravels the nexus of female sexuality and feminine rivalry as depicted in the second season of the series Rome. This chapter focuses on the portrayal of the bitter feud between the two main female protagonists, Atia of the Julii and Servilia of the Junii. This chapter illuminates how their bodies are abused and ultimately controlled to undersco…
A companion to Terence
Terence, "the poet," as he regularly called himself in his prologues, was an important aesthetic predecessor of Catullus and the Augustans. His poetry was immersed in the burgeoning intellectual and artistic hothouse that was mid-second century BCE Rome. When Terence sets out to write a Roman comedy which corrects the dominant mode of Republican comedy by means of a more restrained and, in some sense, more Menandrian style, he also adopts a stanc…
Introduction
Brill's Companion to Silius Italicus
Only recently have scholars turned their attention to Silius Italicus' Punica, a poem the reputation of which was eclipsed by the emergence of Virgil’s Aeneid as the canonical Latin epos of Augustan Rome. This collection of essays aims at examining the importance of Silius' historical epic in Flavian, Domitianic Rome by offering a detailed overview of the poem's context and intertext, its themes and images, and its reception from antiquity throug…
Motherhood and the Other
Introduction: Other and same: Female presence in Flavian epic 1. Mourning endless: Female otherness in Statius' Thebaid 2. Defining the other: From altera patria to tellus mater in Silius Italicus' Punica 3. Comes ultima fati: Regulus' encounter with Marcia's otherness in Punica 6 4. Playing the same: Roman and non-Roman mothers in the Punica Epilogue: Virgins and (M)others: Appropriations of same and other in Flavian Rome
Unius Amissi Leonis
Silvae 2.5 addresses the problematic aspects of the domesticated, acculturated natural world and its impact. Sorrow for a lion's death is transformed into a discussion of the problematics of culture imposed contra naturam. The lion's unused skills and gentleness did not help at all when it was exposed to the merciless arena. And yet the lion opposes the artificiality of its own domesticity and fights back against its fleeing enemy. As the Romans …
Lugendam Formae Sine Virginitate Reliquit
In Punica3, the poet manipulates the complexities of traditional representations of Hercules to illustrate how Hannibal imitates the demigod's conduct as it is portrayed in the aetiological tale of Pyrene's rape and death. Just as Pyrene's blood stains the homonymous mountains in Spain, Hannibal's army is afflicted with much woe and suffering when crossing the Alps. Verbal echoes from Pyrene's dismemberment throughout the book confirm that the fe…
Daphnis’ deductum nomen / carmen in Silius’ Sicilian Pastoral (Pun. 14.462–76)
Lugendam Formae Sine Virginitate Reliquit
In Punica3, the poet manipulates the complexities of traditional representations of Hercules to illustrate how Hannibal imitates the demigod's conduct as it is portrayed in the aetiological tale of Pyrene's rape and death. Just as Pyrene's blood stains the homonymous mountains in Spain, Hannibal's army is afflicted with much woe and suffering when crossing the Alps. Verbal echoes from Pyrene's dismemberment throughout the book confirm that the fe…
Pliny Epistulae 4.13
Pliny Epistulae 4.13:"Communal Conspiracy" at Comum Antony Augoustakis While still at his villa in Tusculum, trying to complete what he calls an opusculum of hendecasyllabic poetry (Ep. 4.13.1), Pliny sends a praecursoria epistula (Ep. 4.13.2) to Tacitus in Rome for the appointment of a qualified teacher to instruct at a new school of rhetoric at Comum, Pliny's hometown.1 Pliny asks Tacitus to find among his acquaintances and students candidates …
Cutting Down the Grove in Lucan, Valerius Maximus and Dio Cassius
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Unius Amissi Leonis
Silvae 2.5 addresses the problematic aspects of the domesticated, acculturated natural world and its impact. Sorrow for a lion's death is transformed into a discussion of the problematics of culture imposed contra naturam. The lion's unused skills and gentleness did not help at all when it was exposed to the merciless arena. And yet the lion opposes the artificiality of its own domesticity and fights back against its fleeing enemy. As the Romans …
Mourning Endless
Silius Italicus, A Flavian Poet
Playing the Same
This chapter examines the portrayal of Imilce, Hannibal's wife, and Masinissa's mother, i.e. of two women from the periphery of the empire, to demonstrate the significance of gendered otherness. Imilce is fashioned as a reasonable Roman matrona, who denounces child-sacrifice, yet she is marked as a hybridic, unclassified, other. By contrast, Masinissa's mother promotes alliance with the Romans and is placed within reach of the centre, as she prea…
Brill's Companion to Silius Italicus
Only recently have scholars turned their attention to Silius Italicus' Punica, a poem the reputation of which was eclipsed by the emergence of Virgil’s Aeneid as the canonical Latin epos of Augustan Rome. This collection of essays aims at examining the importance of Silius' historical epic in Flavian, Domitianic Rome by offering a detailed overview of the poem's context and intertext, its themes and images, and its reception from antiquity throug…
Motherhood and the Other
Introduction: Other and same: Female presence in Flavian epic 1. Mourning endless: Female otherness in Statius' Thebaid 2. Defining the other: From altera patria to tellus mater in Silius Italicus' Punica 3. Comes ultima fati: Regulus' encounter with Marcia's otherness in Punica 6 4. Playing the same: Roman and non-Roman mothers in the Punica Epilogue: Virgins and (M)others: Appropriations of same and other in Flavian Rome
Sine Funeris Vllo Ardet Honore Rogus
This paper offers a discussion of the intertextual relationship between Lucan’s Cornelia and Silius Italicus’ Saguntine women. The act of metaphorical burial is exploited by both poets as a device to deconstruct and then reconstruct Roman identity. Silius exploits both sides of the Lucanian Cornelia, as both the monstrous and the sympathetic, the maenadic and the philosophical, to create a complex intertextual nexus with those mothers that histor…
Daphnis’ deductum nomen / carmen in Silius’ Sicilian Pastoral (Pun. 14.462–76)
A companion to Terence
Terence, "the poet," as he regularly called himself in his prologues, was an important aesthetic predecessor of Catullus and the Augustans. His poetry was immersed in the burgeoning intellectual and artistic hothouse that was mid-second century BCE Rome. When Terence sets out to write a Roman comedy which corrects the dominant mode of Republican comedy by means of a more restrained and, in some sense, more Menandrian style, he also adopts a stanc…
Introduction
Partnership and Love in Spartacus
Companion to Terence
Ritual And Religion In Flavian Epic
"This edited collection addresses the role of ritual representations and religion in the epic poems of the Flavian period (69-96 CE): Valerius Flaccus' 'Argonautica', Silius Italicus' 'Punica', Statius' 'Thebaid', and the unfinished 'Achilleid'. Drawing on various modern studies on religion and ritual, and the relationship between literature and religion in the Greco-Roman world, it explores how we can interpret the poets' use of the relationship…
Effigies of Atia and Servilia
The chapter, “Effigies of Atia and Servilia: Effacing the Female Body in Rome,” by Antony Augoustakis, unravels the nexus of female sexuality and feminine rivalry as depicted in the second season of the series Rome. This chapter focuses on the portrayal of the bitter feud between the two main female protagonists, Atia of the Julii and Servilia of the Junii. This chapter illuminates how their bodies are abused and ultimately controlled to undersco…
STARZ Spartacus
Gladiator, rebel slave leader, revolutionary: a collection of essays dissecting four seasons of STARZ SpartacusThe figure of Spartacus often serves as an icon of resistance against oppression in modern political movements, while his legend has inspired numerous receptions over the centuries in many different popular media. This new essay collection brings together a wide range of scholarly perspectives on the four seasons of the acclaimed and hig…
Statius, Thebaid 8
'Thebaid' is a Latin epic, composed by Statius in AD 80-92, about the mythological story of the expedition of the 7 warriors against Thebes. Book 8 opens with the descent of the Argive seer Amphiaraus to the underworld through a chasm of the earth; the soldiers mourn their seer's loss and elect a successor, Thiodamas, who placates Earth (Tellus) through a prayer, before the opening of the second day of hostilities
Literary Culture
While the Flavians broadly sought to distance themselves from the reign of Nero, there were continuities in practices related to cultural patronage, as seen in the promotion of literary activity under Nero and Domitian. Domitian's painstaking efforts to restore library collections and in securing authoritative replacement copies are noteworthy. The institution of public or semi-public recitationes dates back to Asinius Pollio in the Augustan age,…
STARZ Spartacus
Introduction
Burial and Lament in Flavian Epic
This chapter discusses the importance of burial and lament in Flavian epic, especially in conjunction with mothers and fathers. First, I look at Silius' Pyrene and Statius' Psamathe as examples of bereft mothers whose death is accentuated in the narrative as a marker of upcoming events. Then I study the importance of male lament as a confirmation and consolidation of male power. The passages discussed in this chapter amply demonstrate that wherea…
Achilles and the Poetics of Manhood
This article examines the binarism Europe/Asia in Statius’ Achilleid as a means to understand the polarities of male/female, West/East, Greek/barbarian, and ultimately Roman/non-Roman. I demonstrate that Helen’s abduction by Paris and the discourse on the succession of empires in Statius’ poem reflect Thetis’ own transformation of Achilles into a woman. Through his cross-dressing and the impregnation of Deidamia, marked in the text as a violent a…
Burial scenes
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