Aaron Kachuck
Biographic Data
| ID | 5638381 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Aaron Kachuck |
| GIVEN NAMES | Aaron |
| FAMILY NAME | Kachuck |
| SIGNATURE | KACHUCK A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Institut des Arts de Diffusion |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3007-8135 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 11 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Anxia Bellerophontis
Persius’s Paradoxes
Persius’s Satires teach poets how to do things with philosophy, and with philosophers, tasks for which Roman satirists were, perhaps, uniquely suited: as Isaac Casaubon put it in the Prolegomenato his 1605 commentary, “Both satire and ethical philosophy treat of mores,” but Persius’s Satires, Casaubon goes on to say, go above and beyond officium’s call: Persius is “more philosophical” (φιλοσοφικότερος) than Horace (and, by extension, Horace’s sat…
Conclusion
The conclusion re-articulates the book’s model of the solitary sphere in the age of Virgil within the context of imperial politics, showing how this sphere helped shape new coordinations of cosmos, imperium, and the individual. It shows the role played in this process by newly popular genres like pantomime and the newly (or newly fashioned) subjective element of literary characterization, and demonstrates how this sphere’s new forms are embodied …
Cicero Speaking with Solitudes
This chapter argues that the question of how one can “speak with oneself” ( secum loqui ) was central to Cicero’s personal, philosophical, and political projects throughout much of his career, and especially in his late works. Set against the background of scholarship on Cicero’s life and work, Petrarch’s interest in Cicero, and the wide arc of Cicero’s philosophical works, it studies Cicero’s dilations on the paradox of solitude—including Scipio…
Horace and the Slip to Solitude
This chapter argues that Horace made the solitary sphere into a way of life. Against models of Horace’s persona and work that emphasize the contrast between public bard and coterie poet, it shows how the slip to solitude represented a pervasive gesture across his corpus. Proceeding chronologically, close reading of satires, Odes , and the relationship between the tale of the ostensibly mad man at Argos in the Epistle to Florus and the conclusion …
Virgil’s Eclogues as Meditation
This chapter argues that Virgil’s Eclogues give literary form to Rome’s solitary sphere and make solitude their central social and literary problem. A meditation on Virgil’s use of the verb meditari (“to meditate, contemplate, practice”) and on the fourth Eclogue provides background for a formulation of Virgil’s model of “loveful reading” that, in its solitude, nuances readings of the Eclogues as representing dreams of social reciprocity and comm…
The Solitary Sphere in the Age of Virgil
The Solitary Sphere in the Age of Virgil uses an enriched tripartite model of Roman culture—touching not only the public and the private, but also the solitary—in order to present a new interpretation of Latin literature and of the historical causes of this third sphere’s relative invisibility in scholarship. By connecting Cosmos and Imperium to the Individual, the solitary sphere was not so much a way of avoiding politics as a political educatio…
Ovid’s Dream, or, Byblis and the Circle of Metamorphoses
Chapter 5 explores the role played by the Byblis episode in Ovid’s Metamorphoses as a form of authorial self-portrait. Byblis, placed at what this paper shows to be the poem’s chronological centre, is both the work’s first long-form writer and its first, and only, dreamer of fully human dreams. Where Morpheus in the Metamorphoses ’ House of Sleep may serve as model for the poet as shape-shifter and creator, Byblis represents the intimate connecti…
Exit Pursued by Horace
This article puts the bear back in Horace, demonstrating the role bears have played from antiquity through the Renaissance as the great disruptor of the classical literary artefact, simplex et unum. The first section of the article treats bear’s place in ancient poetics. The second section exposes its role in Horace’s corpus, demonstrating how it instantiates both historical interpretive conflicts over one of Aristotle’s definition of the poet’s …
Entretien avec Froma Zeitlin
Zeitlin Froma, Barbu Daniel, Kachuck Aaron, Meylan Nicolas, Salzmann Juliette, Torres Stefano R. Entretien avec Froma Zeitlin. In: ASDIWAL. Revue genevoise d'anthropologie et d'histoire des religions, n°14, 2019. pp. 79-88
Births, Rebirths, and Horace’s genius
Cet article donne un nouveau compte rendu du culte romain des anniversaires et du génie des oeuvres d’Horace. La théologie implicite du génie d''Horace, selon elle, reliait la sphère publique de l’État naissant (lui-même renforcé par le culte des anniversaires) à la sphère privée de sa relation avec Mécène et à la sphère solitaire de sa relation à lui-même. À la base, cet article résout deux problèmes soulevés par son dernier poème d''anniversair…
Births, Rebirths, and Horace’s genius
Cet article donne un nouveau compte rendu du culte romain des anniversaires et du génie des oeuvres d’Horace. La théologie implicite du génie d''Horace, selon elle, reliait la sphère publique de l’État naissant (lui-même renforcé par le culte des anniversaires) à la sphère privée de sa relation avec Mécène et à la sphère solitaire de sa relation à lui-même. À la base, cet article résout deux problèmes soulevés par son dernier poème d''anniversair…
Entretien avec Froma Zeitlin
Zeitlin Froma, Barbu Daniel, Kachuck Aaron, Meylan Nicolas, Salzmann Juliette, Torres Stefano R. Entretien avec Froma Zeitlin. In: ASDIWAL. Revue genevoise d'anthropologie et d'histoire des religions, n°14, 2019. pp. 79-88
Births, Rebirths, and Horace’s genius
Cet article donne un nouveau compte rendu du culte romain des anniversaires et du génie des oeuvres d’Horace. La théologie implicite du génie d''Horace, selon elle, reliait la sphère publique de l’État naissant (lui-même renforcé par le culte des anniversaires) à la sphère privée de sa relation avec Mécène et à la sphère solitaire de sa relation à lui-même. À la base, cet article résout deux problèmes soulevés par son dernier poème d''anniversair…
Ovid’s Dream, or, Byblis and the Circle of Metamorphoses
Chapter 5 explores the role played by the Byblis episode in Ovid’s Metamorphoses as a form of authorial self-portrait. Byblis, placed at what this paper shows to be the poem’s chronological centre, is both the work’s first long-form writer and its first, and only, dreamer of fully human dreams. Where Morpheus in the Metamorphoses ’ House of Sleep may serve as model for the poet as shape-shifter and creator, Byblis represents the intimate connecti…
Exit Pursued by Horace
This article puts the bear back in Horace, demonstrating the role bears have played from antiquity through the Renaissance as the great disruptor of the classical literary artefact, simplex et unum. The first section of the article treats bear’s place in ancient poetics. The second section exposes its role in Horace’s corpus, demonstrating how it instantiates both historical interpretive conflicts over one of Aristotle’s definition of the poet’s …
Conclusion
The conclusion re-articulates the book’s model of the solitary sphere in the age of Virgil within the context of imperial politics, showing how this sphere helped shape new coordinations of cosmos, imperium, and the individual. It shows the role played in this process by newly popular genres like pantomime and the newly (or newly fashioned) subjective element of literary characterization, and demonstrates how this sphere’s new forms are embodied …
Cicero Speaking with Solitudes
This chapter argues that the question of how one can “speak with oneself” ( secum loqui ) was central to Cicero’s personal, philosophical, and political projects throughout much of his career, and especially in his late works. Set against the background of scholarship on Cicero’s life and work, Petrarch’s interest in Cicero, and the wide arc of Cicero’s philosophical works, it studies Cicero’s dilations on the paradox of solitude—including Scipio…
Horace and the Slip to Solitude
This chapter argues that Horace made the solitary sphere into a way of life. Against models of Horace’s persona and work that emphasize the contrast between public bard and coterie poet, it shows how the slip to solitude represented a pervasive gesture across his corpus. Proceeding chronologically, close reading of satires, Odes , and the relationship between the tale of the ostensibly mad man at Argos in the Epistle to Florus and the conclusion …
Virgil’s Eclogues as Meditation
This chapter argues that Virgil’s Eclogues give literary form to Rome’s solitary sphere and make solitude their central social and literary problem. A meditation on Virgil’s use of the verb meditari (“to meditate, contemplate, practice”) and on the fourth Eclogue provides background for a formulation of Virgil’s model of “loveful reading” that, in its solitude, nuances readings of the Eclogues as representing dreams of social reciprocity and comm…
The Solitary Sphere in the Age of Virgil
The Solitary Sphere in the Age of Virgil uses an enriched tripartite model of Roman culture—touching not only the public and the private, but also the solitary—in order to present a new interpretation of Latin literature and of the historical causes of this third sphere’s relative invisibility in scholarship. By connecting Cosmos and Imperium to the Individual, the solitary sphere was not so much a way of avoiding politics as a political educatio…
Persius’s Paradoxes
Persius’s Satires teach poets how to do things with philosophy, and with philosophers, tasks for which Roman satirists were, perhaps, uniquely suited: as Isaac Casaubon put it in the Prolegomenato his 1605 commentary, “Both satire and ethical philosophy treat of mores,” but Persius’s Satires, Casaubon goes on to say, go above and beyond officium’s call: Persius is “more philosophical” (φιλοσοφικότερος) than Horace (and, by extension, Horace’s sat…
Anxia Bellerophontis
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