Dunstan Lowe
Biographic Data
| ID | 5628521 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Dunstan Lowe |
| GIVEN NAMES | Dunstan |
| FAMILY NAME | Lowe |
| SIGNATURE | LOWE D |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Kent |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7664-4027 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 8 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1991 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Grattius
Reviewed by: Grattius: Hunting an Augustan Poet ed. by Steven J. Green Dunstan Lowe Steven J. Green (ed.). Grattius: Hunting an Augustan Poet. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018. Pp. x, 286. $80.00. ISBN 978-0-19-878901-7. Grattius the teacher of hunting has always been an outlier to the canon of Augustan poetry, even more than Manilius the teacher of astrology, whose much more substantial poem found a champion in A. E. Housman. The Cynegetica…
Loud and Proud
This chapter brings into view another non-elite voice, one that lingers in the genre of Latin love elegy, and is typically overshadowed by elite oratory: that of the praeco (‘announcer’). The term encompassed various kinds of informal public speaker, from hucksters to heralds, but usually the ‘vigorous and none-too-scrupulous salesman’. Its practitioners had a significant role in Augustan Rome, and some became very rich and influential. This chap…
Monsters and Monstrosity in Augustan Poetry
Roman poets of the Augustan period reinvented monsters from Greek myth, such as Harpies, Furies, and the warring Centaurs and Giants. These monsters represented the attractions and dangers of novelty in various contexts, ranging from social values to artistic innovation. Rome’s two great epics of the early principate, Vergil’s Aeneid and Ovid’s Metamorphoses, are both filled with mythical monsters. Like the culture that produced them, these poets…
A Stichometric Allusion to Catullus 64 in the Culex
I am grateful to Edward Courtney for observing that the stichometric correspondence between the Culex and Catullus 64 is close but not exact, since Culex 132–3 really echoes not 132–3 but 133–4. The conventional line-numbering of Catullus 64 conceals the half-line 23b, progenies saluete iter ..., which is invisibly missing from the manuscripts but was salvaged by Francesco Orioli from the Scholia Veronensia on Verg. Aen . 5.80 and is universally …
A Stichometric Allusion to Catullus 64 in the Culex
In a recent note, I collected instances of ‘stichometric allusion’, the technique in which poets allude, in one or more of their own verses, to source verses with corresponding line numbers. The technique existed in Hellenistic Greek poetry, but seems more prevalent (or at least, detectable) among the Latin poets of the Augustan era, who applied it to Greek and Latin predecessors alike, as well as internally to their own work. New illustrations o…
Women Scorned
Intense scrutiny can raise chimaeras, and Virgil is the most scrutinized of Roman poets, but he may have engineered coincidences in line number (‘stichometric allusions’) between certain of his verses and their Greek models. A handful of potential examples have now accumulated. Scholars have detected Virgilian citations of Homer, Callimachus and Aratus in this manner, as well as intratextual allusions by both Virgil and Ovid, and references to Vi…
Trimalchio's Wizened Boy ( Satyrica 28.4)
The 'puer vetulus' described by Petronius is meant to represent a sufferer of the rare congenital illness known as progeria or accelerated ageing. Survey the ancient evidence, I argue that Petronius' fondness for such an individual reinforces his portrayal as a gauche social climber
Scylla, the Diver’s Daughter
Ovid has been thought the inventor of the story that Scylla, the Odyssean monster, was once a beautiful nymph subsequently disfigured by a jealous goddess. I argue that this Hellenistic-sounding narrative had a Hellenistic origin, specifically in the lost works of Aeschrion and Hedyle. I propose that the element spliced with Homer's monster is not (primarily) princess Scylla of Megara, as some have claimed, but instead the daughter of Scyllias, t…
Personification Allegory in the Aeneid and Ovid's Metamorphoses
This article will show that Ovid's well-known innovations in the use of personification allegory combine closely with those of Virgil, to form a distinctive 'Augustan' phase in the development of allegory in classical literature. Both Ovid and Virgil make fictional abstractions concrete and ontologically ambiguous. Innovations common to both the Aeneid and Metamorphoses constitute an important stage in the emergence of 'compositional allegory', i…
Deus Ex Machina
A Stichometric Allusion to Catullus 64 in the Culex
In a recent note, I collected instances of ‘stichometric allusion’, the technique in which poets allude, in one or more of their own verses, to source verses with corresponding line numbers. The technique existed in Hellenistic Greek poetry, but seems more prevalent (or at least, detectable) among the Latin poets of the Augustan era, who applied it to Greek and Latin predecessors alike, as well as internally to their own work. New illustrations o…
Women Scorned
Intense scrutiny can raise chimaeras, and Virgil is the most scrutinized of Roman poets, but he may have engineered coincidences in line number (‘stichometric allusions’) between certain of his verses and their Greek models. A handful of potential examples have now accumulated. Scholars have detected Virgilian citations of Homer, Callimachus and Aratus in this manner, as well as intratextual allusions by both Virgil and Ovid, and references to Vi…
Personification Allegory in the Aeneid and Ovid's Metamorphoses
This article will show that Ovid's well-known innovations in the use of personification allegory combine closely with those of Virgil, to form a distinctive 'Augustan' phase in the development of allegory in classical literature. Both Ovid and Virgil make fictional abstractions concrete and ontologically ambiguous. Innovations common to both the Aeneid and Metamorphoses constitute an important stage in the emergence of 'compositional allegory', i…
Trimalchio's Wizened Boy ( Satyrica 28.4)
The 'puer vetulus' described by Petronius is meant to represent a sufferer of the rare congenital illness known as progeria or accelerated ageing. Survey the ancient evidence, I argue that Petronius' fondness for such an individual reinforces his portrayal as a gauche social climber
Scylla, the Diver’s Daughter
Ovid has been thought the inventor of the story that Scylla, the Odyssean monster, was once a beautiful nymph subsequently disfigured by a jealous goddess. I argue that this Hellenistic-sounding narrative had a Hellenistic origin, specifically in the lost works of Aeschrion and Hedyle. I propose that the element spliced with Homer's monster is not (primarily) princess Scylla of Megara, as some have claimed, but instead the daughter of Scyllias, t…
Deus Ex Machina
Personification Allegory in the Aeneid and Ovid's Metamorphoses
This article will show that Ovid's well-known innovations in the use of personification allegory combine closely with those of Virgil, to form a distinctive 'Augustan' phase in the development of allegory in classical literature. Both Ovid and Virgil make fictional abstractions concrete and ontologically ambiguous. Innovations common to both the Aeneid and Metamorphoses constitute an important stage in the emergence of 'compositional allegory', i…
Scylla, the Diver’s Daughter
Ovid has been thought the inventor of the story that Scylla, the Odyssean monster, was once a beautiful nymph subsequently disfigured by a jealous goddess. I argue that this Hellenistic-sounding narrative had a Hellenistic origin, specifically in the lost works of Aeschrion and Hedyle. I propose that the element spliced with Homer's monster is not (primarily) princess Scylla of Megara, as some have claimed, but instead the daughter of Scyllias, t…
Trimalchio's Wizened Boy ( Satyrica 28.4)
The 'puer vetulus' described by Petronius is meant to represent a sufferer of the rare congenital illness known as progeria or accelerated ageing. Survey the ancient evidence, I argue that Petronius' fondness for such an individual reinforces his portrayal as a gauche social climber
Women Scorned
Intense scrutiny can raise chimaeras, and Virgil is the most scrutinized of Roman poets, but he may have engineered coincidences in line number (‘stichometric allusions’) between certain of his verses and their Greek models. A handful of potential examples have now accumulated. Scholars have detected Virgilian citations of Homer, Callimachus and Aratus in this manner, as well as intratextual allusions by both Virgil and Ovid, and references to Vi…
A Stichometric Allusion to Catullus 64 in the Culex
In a recent note, I collected instances of ‘stichometric allusion’, the technique in which poets allude, in one or more of their own verses, to source verses with corresponding line numbers. The technique existed in Hellenistic Greek poetry, but seems more prevalent (or at least, detectable) among the Latin poets of the Augustan era, who applied it to Greek and Latin predecessors alike, as well as internally to their own work. New illustrations o…
Monsters and Monstrosity in Augustan Poetry
Roman poets of the Augustan period reinvented monsters from Greek myth, such as Harpies, Furies, and the warring Centaurs and Giants. These monsters represented the attractions and dangers of novelty in various contexts, ranging from social values to artistic innovation. Rome’s two great epics of the early principate, Vergil’s Aeneid and Ovid’s Metamorphoses, are both filled with mythical monsters. Like the culture that produced them, these poets…
A Stichometric Allusion to Catullus 64 in the Culex
I am grateful to Edward Courtney for observing that the stichometric correspondence between the Culex and Catullus 64 is close but not exact, since Culex 132–3 really echoes not 132–3 but 133–4. The conventional line-numbering of Catullus 64 conceals the half-line 23b, progenies saluete iter ..., which is invisibly missing from the manuscripts but was salvaged by Francesco Orioli from the Scholia Veronensia on Verg. Aen . 5.80 and is universally …
Loud and Proud
This chapter brings into view another non-elite voice, one that lingers in the genre of Latin love elegy, and is typically overshadowed by elite oratory: that of the praeco (‘announcer’). The term encompassed various kinds of informal public speaker, from hucksters to heralds, but usually the ‘vigorous and none-too-scrupulous salesman’. Its practitioners had a significant role in Augustan Rome, and some became very rich and influential. This chap…
Grattius
Reviewed by: Grattius: Hunting an Augustan Poet ed. by Steven J. Green Dunstan Lowe Steven J. Green (ed.). Grattius: Hunting an Augustan Poet. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018. Pp. x, 286. $80.00. ISBN 978-0-19-878901-7. Grattius the teacher of hunting has always been an outlier to the canon of Augustan poetry, even more than Manilius the teacher of astrology, whose much more substantial poem found a champion in A. E. Housman. The Cynegetica…
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