Fiachra Mac Góráin
Biographic Data
| ID | 5641588 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Fiachra Mac Góráin |
| GIVEN NAMES | Fiachra |
| FAMILY NAME | Mac Góráin |
| SIGNATURE | MAC GÓRÁIN F |
| AFFILIATIONS | University College London |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3559-3876 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 6 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Tribute and Dismay
The article presents and provides context for the address that Roger Mynors gave at the memorial service for Eduard Fraenkel in May 1970. Mynors spoke of Fraenkel’s origins and international connections, his career, especially at Oxford, his teaching and scholarly method, his character and dependence on his wife. He also said that Fraenkel was ‘quite wrong’ to end his own life but adds nuance to that judgement. An introduction and annotations to …
Mystery Cult in Vergil
In this paper we begin with a brief survey of the presence of the mysteries in Greek and Latin epic poetry, before giving an overview of the mysteries in Vergil and attempting to identify the function of the references to mystery religion in Aeneid 6. Throughout, we consider the modality of how the poets allude to the mysteries in ways that allow mystery cults to take on a life of their own in imaginative literary representations, arriving at the…
Augustus and the Neoi Dionysoi
Anchises famously compares Augustus to Bacchus and Hercules in the parade of heroes in Virgil’s Aeneid 6.801–805. Norden (RhM 54, 1899) saw these lines as indebted to the tradition of panegyric on Alexander. The present chapter endorses and develops Norden’s claim by reading the simile against two backgrounds: the idea of Dionysus as a fertility god who brings about growth and Dionysus’ role as a conqueror of the East. The discussion briefly puts…
Virgil
The poet Virgil remains the most significant and influential figure in Latin literature, and this expanded and updated Companion covers his life, work, and reception from antiquity to the present. The Aeneid, the Eclogues, the Georgics, and the Appendix Vergiliana are all discussed, as are art, history, politics, and philosophy; Virgil's literary style is carefully explored along with poetic traditions before and since, and chapters engage with h…
Dionysus and Rome
Introduction. Dionysus in Rome
This introductory chapter provides a wide-angle history of the presence of Dionysus/Bacchus/Liber on Italian soil from the archaic to the early Christian periods, covering archaeological and literary sources. In parallel, it surveys the main scholarly trends on the Italian versions of Dionysus, and emplots the contributions to this volume in a history of scholarship. The main focus of the chapter, which is programmatic for the volume, is the inte…
The Cambridge Companion to Virgil
The poet Virgil remains the most significant and influential figure in Latin literature, and this expanded and updated Companion covers his life, work, and reception from antiquity to the present. The Aeneid, the Eclogues, the Georgics, and the Appendix Vergiliana are all discussed, as are art, history, politics, and philosophy; Virgil's literary style is carefully explored along with poetic traditions before and since, and chapters engage with h…
Virgil’s Bacchus and the Roman Republic
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Virgil’s Bacchus and the Roman Republic
Virgil
The poet Virgil remains the most significant and influential figure in Latin literature, and this expanded and updated Companion covers his life, work, and reception from antiquity to the present. The Aeneid, the Eclogues, the Georgics, and the Appendix Vergiliana are all discussed, as are art, history, politics, and philosophy; Virgil's literary style is carefully explored along with poetic traditions before and since, and chapters engage with h…
Dionysus and Rome
Introduction. Dionysus in Rome
This introductory chapter provides a wide-angle history of the presence of Dionysus/Bacchus/Liber on Italian soil from the archaic to the early Christian periods, covering archaeological and literary sources. In parallel, it surveys the main scholarly trends on the Italian versions of Dionysus, and emplots the contributions to this volume in a history of scholarship. The main focus of the chapter, which is programmatic for the volume, is the inte…
The Cambridge Companion to Virgil
The poet Virgil remains the most significant and influential figure in Latin literature, and this expanded and updated Companion covers his life, work, and reception from antiquity to the present. The Aeneid, the Eclogues, the Georgics, and the Appendix Vergiliana are all discussed, as are art, history, politics, and philosophy; Virgil's literary style is carefully explored along with poetic traditions before and since, and chapters engage with h…
Augustus and the Neoi Dionysoi
Anchises famously compares Augustus to Bacchus and Hercules in the parade of heroes in Virgil’s Aeneid 6.801–805. Norden (RhM 54, 1899) saw these lines as indebted to the tradition of panegyric on Alexander. The present chapter endorses and develops Norden’s claim by reading the simile against two backgrounds: the idea of Dionysus as a fertility god who brings about growth and Dionysus’ role as a conqueror of the East. The discussion briefly puts…
Mystery Cult in Vergil
In this paper we begin with a brief survey of the presence of the mysteries in Greek and Latin epic poetry, before giving an overview of the mysteries in Vergil and attempting to identify the function of the references to mystery religion in Aeneid 6. Throughout, we consider the modality of how the poets allude to the mysteries in ways that allow mystery cults to take on a life of their own in imaginative literary representations, arriving at the…
Tribute and Dismay
The article presents and provides context for the address that Roger Mynors gave at the memorial service for Eduard Fraenkel in May 1970. Mynors spoke of Fraenkel’s origins and international connections, his career, especially at Oxford, his teaching and scholarly method, his character and dependence on his wife. He also said that Fraenkel was ‘quite wrong’ to end his own life but adds nuance to that judgement. An introduction and annotations to …
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