Jennifer Ferriss-Hill
Biographic Data
| ID | 5646620 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jennifer Ferriss-Hill |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jennifer |
| FAMILY NAME | Ferriss-Hill |
| SIGNATURE | FERRISS-HILL J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Miami |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2283-9435 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 11 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Catullus 32
Catullus poem 32 has traditionally been read as describing an afternoon assignation with a prostitute. The reinterpretation offered here reads the poem not as a one-off piece about a figure mentioned nowhere else in Catullus, but rather as a poem that connects with those in the Lesbia-cycle as well as with Catullus’ metapoetic project more broadly. Ipsitilla, I argue, acts as a Muse-like figure analogous to Lesbia, and the fututiones she prepares…
Dionysus's Mistake
Dionysus, patron deity of the Athenian dramatic festivals, is portrayed by Aristophanes as being bad at a wide variety of activities in the first half of Frogs. I argue that this portrayal extends throughout the second half of the play as well and that Dionysus's decision to resurrect Aeschylus rather than Euripides may be read as the culmination of this quality. In making the patron deity of the dramatic festivals judge poorly in a contest of th…
Roman Satire
How do you insert yourself into an artistic canon? How do you establish yourself as a worthy successor to your predecessors while making your own mark on a genre? How do you police a genre's boundaries to keep out the unwanted? With particular attention to authorial and national identity, artistic self-definition, and literary reception, this volume shows how four ancient Latin poets—Lucilius, Horace, Persius, and Juvenal—asked and answered these…
Horace's Ars Poetica
Pisones
This chapter examines the Pisones , the persons to whom the Ars Poetica is addressed. It argues that Horace subjects the Pisones to a far less gentle handling than has been generally acknowledged, and one in line with his aggressive treatment at times of addressees and other figures in his Satires and Epistles . In dedicating his poem to a unit consisting of a father and two sons, Horace is able to make the father–son relationship a central narra…
Horace's Ars Poetica
For two millennia, the Ars Poetica ( Art of Poetry ), the 476-line literary treatise in verse with which Horace closed his career, has served as a paradigmatic manual for writers. Rarely has it been considered as a poem in its own right, or else it has been disparaged as a great poet's baffling outlier. Here, this book fully reintegrates the Ars Poetica into Horace's oeuvre, reading the poem as a coherent, complete, and exceptional literary artif…
Iambic Poetics in the Roman Empire by Tom Hawkins (review)
Reviewed by: Iambic Poetics in the Roman Empire by Tom Hawkins Jennifer Ferriss-Hill Tom Hawkins. Iambic Poetics in the Roman Empire. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2014. Pp. xi, 334. $99.99. ISBN 978–1-107–01208–0. Although the broad title of Iambic Poetics (even with the coda in the Roman Empire) might well be expected to herald a volume devoted to well-rehearsed authors and their works, readers will be pleasantly surprised to find here…
Roman Satire and the Old Comic Tradition
Talis Oratio Qualis Vita
A Stroll with Lucilius
This article argues that the "bore" who pursues Horace in Satires 1.9 should be read as Lucilius, the inventor of Roman verse Satire. This reconsideration of the interlocutor allows certain previously puzzling aspects of the poem, in particular Horace's failure to escape from his companion, to be understood in programmatic terms. The poem literally enacts the complex and timeless dance between successor and model: as long as he is writing satire,…
Catullus Poem 71
Catullus Poem 71
Roman Satire
How do you insert yourself into an artistic canon? How do you establish yourself as a worthy successor to your predecessors while making your own mark on a genre? How do you police a genre's boundaries to keep out the unwanted? With particular attention to authorial and national identity, artistic self-definition, and literary reception, this volume shows how four ancient Latin poets—Lucilius, Horace, Persius, and Juvenal—asked and answered these…
A Stroll with Lucilius
This article argues that the "bore" who pursues Horace in Satires 1.9 should be read as Lucilius, the inventor of Roman verse Satire. This reconsideration of the interlocutor allows certain previously puzzling aspects of the poem, in particular Horace's failure to escape from his companion, to be understood in programmatic terms. The poem literally enacts the complex and timeless dance between successor and model: as long as he is writing satire,…
Catullus Poem 71
A Stroll with Lucilius
This article argues that the "bore" who pursues Horace in Satires 1.9 should be read as Lucilius, the inventor of Roman verse Satire. This reconsideration of the interlocutor allows certain previously puzzling aspects of the poem, in particular Horace's failure to escape from his companion, to be understood in programmatic terms. The poem literally enacts the complex and timeless dance between successor and model: as long as he is writing satire,…
Talis Oratio Qualis Vita
Roman Satire and the Old Comic Tradition
Iambic Poetics in the Roman Empire by Tom Hawkins (review)
Reviewed by: Iambic Poetics in the Roman Empire by Tom Hawkins Jennifer Ferriss-Hill Tom Hawkins. Iambic Poetics in the Roman Empire. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2014. Pp. xi, 334. $99.99. ISBN 978–1-107–01208–0. Although the broad title of Iambic Poetics (even with the coda in the Roman Empire) might well be expected to herald a volume devoted to well-rehearsed authors and their works, readers will be pleasantly surprised to find here…
Horace's Ars Poetica
Pisones
This chapter examines the Pisones , the persons to whom the Ars Poetica is addressed. It argues that Horace subjects the Pisones to a far less gentle handling than has been generally acknowledged, and one in line with his aggressive treatment at times of addressees and other figures in his Satires and Epistles . In dedicating his poem to a unit consisting of a father and two sons, Horace is able to make the father–son relationship a central narra…
Horace's Ars Poetica
For two millennia, the Ars Poetica ( Art of Poetry ), the 476-line literary treatise in verse with which Horace closed his career, has served as a paradigmatic manual for writers. Rarely has it been considered as a poem in its own right, or else it has been disparaged as a great poet's baffling outlier. Here, this book fully reintegrates the Ars Poetica into Horace's oeuvre, reading the poem as a coherent, complete, and exceptional literary artif…
Roman Satire
How do you insert yourself into an artistic canon? How do you establish yourself as a worthy successor to your predecessors while making your own mark on a genre? How do you police a genre's boundaries to keep out the unwanted? With particular attention to authorial and national identity, artistic self-definition, and literary reception, this volume shows how four ancient Latin poets—Lucilius, Horace, Persius, and Juvenal—asked and answered these…
Dionysus's Mistake
Dionysus, patron deity of the Athenian dramatic festivals, is portrayed by Aristophanes as being bad at a wide variety of activities in the first half of Frogs. I argue that this portrayal extends throughout the second half of the play as well and that Dionysus's decision to resurrect Aeschylus rather than Euripides may be read as the culmination of this quality. In making the patron deity of the dramatic festivals judge poorly in a contest of th…
Catullus 32
Catullus poem 32 has traditionally been read as describing an afternoon assignation with a prostitute. The reinterpretation offered here reads the poem not as a one-off piece about a figure mentioned nowhere else in Catullus, but rather as a poem that connects with those in the Lesbia-cycle as well as with Catullus’ metapoetic project more broadly. Ipsitilla, I argue, acts as a Muse-like figure analogous to Lesbia, and the fututiones she prepares…
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