Julia Dyson Hejduk
Biographic Data
| ID | 5633972 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Julia Dyson Hejduk |
| GIVEN NAMES | Julia Dyson |
| FAMILY NAME | Hejduk |
| SIGNATURE | HEJDUK J D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Baylor University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 15 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 10 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
From eschatology to scatology
This article provides an overview of scholarly work on Virgil’s Fourth Eclogue since the publication of Robin Nisbet’s ‘Virgil’s Fourth Eclogue: Easterners and Westerners’ (1978). It shows that, if anything, the mysteries and controversies surrounding Virgil’s mantic masterpiece have only deepened in recent decades
Cynthia's Birthday Acrostic (3.10.1–5)
This article argues that an intentional acrostic spanning the first five lines of Propertius’ elegy for Cynthia's birthday (3.10), MANE[T] , contributes significantly to the poignancy and purpose of the poem. MANE can be read as māne , ‘in the morning’, or manē , ‘stay!’, both of which emphasize the fleeting nature of dawn—and of Cynthia's youthful beauty. MANET can suggest both ‘[art] remains’ and ‘[death] awaits’. All four of these meanings wor…
The God of Rome
As the Roman republic was being transformed into a monarchy, Jupiter attracted thoughts about politics, power, sex, fatherhood, religion, poetry, and most everything else of importance to poets and other humans. This book explores the god's manifestations in Augustan poetry, providing a fascinating window on a transformative period of history
Sacrificial Acrostics and the Fall of Great Cities in Virgil and Lucan
This note argues that an intertextual acrostic conversation spanning key passages in Virgil and Lucan draws a connection between the fall of Troy, depicted as a sacrifice, and the “fall” of Rome in its civil war. A long vertical utterance, spanning the lines in which the gods destroy Troy, simultaneously admonishes the city to be sacrificed and Aeneas to leave it behind (Aen. 2.614–28). Lucan echoes this acrostic in lines whose horizontal text tr…
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Introduction
Introduction:Reading Civil War Julia D. Hejduk When in Darkness Visible (1976) W. R. Johnson characterized one strain of Aeneid interpretation as "the somewhat pessimistic Harvard School",1 he could hardly have dreamt that the phrase would achieve canonical status so quickly. In fact, half of the seminal pieces he names—and the only two whose authors, Clausen and Parry, were friends who conversed regularly—were conceived and written at Amherst Co…
Red-Handed Apollo
Gutter-minded readings of Ovid have a venerable ancient precedent in Martial. As Stephen Hinds points out, the epigrammatist has a particular knack for ‘editorializing on the euphemistic language of elegy by “staining” it, in more or less complicated ways; it can be argued that the intertext between Ovidian and Martialian erotics, as well as differentiating them, tends to give the reader both a more Ovidian Martial and a more Martialian Ovid than…
Arachne’s Attitude
Epic Rapes in the Fasti
Ovid and Religion
This chapter contains sections titled: Introduction The Amatory Poems: Ovid as Priest The Metamorphoses: Ovid's Anti-Theodicy The Fasti: Ovid as Victim The Exile Poetry: Ovid as Victim and Priest Ovid's Religion Further Reading
The God of Rome
As the Roman republic was being transformed into a monarchy, Jupiter attracted thoughts about politics, power, sex, fatherhood, religion, poetry, and most everything else of importance to poets and other humans. This book explores the god's manifestations in Augustan poetry, providing a fascinating window on a transformative period of history
Cynthia's Birthday Acrostic (3.10.1–5)
This article argues that an intentional acrostic spanning the first five lines of Propertius’ elegy for Cynthia's birthday (3.10), MANE[T] , contributes significantly to the poignancy and purpose of the poem. MANE can be read as māne , ‘in the morning’, or manē , ‘stay!’, both of which emphasize the fleeting nature of dawn—and of Cynthia's youthful beauty. MANET can suggest both ‘[art] remains’ and ‘[death] awaits’. All four of these meanings wor…
Introduction
Introduction:Reading Civil War Julia D. Hejduk When in Darkness Visible (1976) W. R. Johnson characterized one strain of Aeneid interpretation as "the somewhat pessimistic Harvard School",1 he could hardly have dreamt that the phrase would achieve canonical status so quickly. In fact, half of the seminal pieces he names—and the only two whose authors, Clausen and Parry, were friends who conversed regularly—were conceived and written at Amherst Co…
Epic Rapes in the Fasti
Ovid and Religion
This chapter contains sections titled: Introduction The Amatory Poems: Ovid as Priest The Metamorphoses: Ovid's Anti-Theodicy The Fasti: Ovid as Victim The Exile Poetry: Ovid as Victim and Priest Ovid's Religion Further Reading
Epic Rapes in the Fasti
Arachne’s Attitude
Red-Handed Apollo
Gutter-minded readings of Ovid have a venerable ancient precedent in Martial. As Stephen Hinds points out, the epigrammatist has a particular knack for ‘editorializing on the euphemistic language of elegy by “staining” it, in more or less complicated ways; it can be argued that the intertext between Ovidian and Martialian erotics, as well as differentiating them, tends to give the reader both a more Ovidian Martial and a more Martialian Ovid than…
Introduction
Introduction:Reading Civil War Julia D. Hejduk When in Darkness Visible (1976) W. R. Johnson characterized one strain of Aeneid interpretation as "the somewhat pessimistic Harvard School",1 he could hardly have dreamt that the phrase would achieve canonical status so quickly. In fact, half of the seminal pieces he names—and the only two whose authors, Clausen and Parry, were friends who conversed regularly—were conceived and written at Amherst Co…
Saepe stilum uertas
Sacrificial Acrostics and the Fall of Great Cities in Virgil and Lucan
This note argues that an intertextual acrostic conversation spanning key passages in Virgil and Lucan draws a connection between the fall of Troy, depicted as a sacrifice, and the “fall” of Rome in its civil war. A long vertical utterance, spanning the lines in which the gods destroy Troy, simultaneously admonishes the city to be sacrificed and Aeneas to leave it behind (Aen. 2.614–28). Lucan echoes this acrostic in lines whose horizontal text tr…
The God of Rome
As the Roman republic was being transformed into a monarchy, Jupiter attracted thoughts about politics, power, sex, fatherhood, religion, poetry, and most everything else of importance to poets and other humans. This book explores the god's manifestations in Augustan poetry, providing a fascinating window on a transformative period of history
Cynthia's Birthday Acrostic (3.10.1–5)
This article argues that an intentional acrostic spanning the first five lines of Propertius’ elegy for Cynthia's birthday (3.10), MANE[T] , contributes significantly to the poignancy and purpose of the poem. MANE can be read as māne , ‘in the morning’, or manē , ‘stay!’, both of which emphasize the fleeting nature of dawn—and of Cynthia's youthful beauty. MANET can suggest both ‘[art] remains’ and ‘[death] awaits’. All four of these meanings wor…
From eschatology to scatology
This article provides an overview of scholarly work on Virgil’s Fourth Eclogue since the publication of Robin Nisbet’s ‘Virgil’s Fourth Eclogue: Easterners and Westerners’ (1978). It shows that, if anything, the mysteries and controversies surrounding Virgil’s mantic masterpiece have only deepened in recent decades
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