Christopher Trinacty
Biographic Data
| ID | 999685 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Christopher Trinacty |
| GIVEN NAMES | Christopher |
| FAMILY NAME | Trinacty |
| SIGNATURE | TRINACTY C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Oberlin College |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 59 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 19 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Bacchic Batman
This paper investigates the ways that Tom King’s Batman: Killing Time (2022) blends a telling of Euripides’ Bacchae with the more traditional story of a super-villain bank heist. The heist mobilises characters such as Catwoman and the Riddler against Batman as they try to secure possession of an ancient artefact. This artefact turns out to have ancient Greek provenance and allows King to emphasise how his tale evokes and responds to Euripides’ pl…
Memmius, Cicero and Lucretius
A recent piece in this journal by Morgan and Taylor made the case that C. Memmius is not to be seen as an active prosecutor of Epicureanism but rather as an Epicurean himself, who merely has disagreed with the grimly orthodox Epicurean sect in Athens. As such, Memmius’ building intentions for Epicurus’ home could have been to create an honorary monument or possibly even construct a grander locus for pilgrimage and the practice of Epicureanism. Th…
Non est facile inter mala magna consipere
Book 6 of Seneca’s Naturales Quaestiones offers an exemplary illustration of the way that Seneca blends Stoic physics and ethics with an eye to the ethical benefits of seeking and achieving knowledge of the physical world. This happens, primarily, through the rhetoric of his account, and this paper treats the language and literary devices that Seneca employs to discuss earthquakes and their traumatic effects on individuals. He encourages close re…
Nulla res est quae non eius quo nascitur notas reddat (Nat. 3.21.2)
Tibullus’ Comedy
Ovid’s Women of the Year
Reviewed by: Ovid’s Women of the Year: Narratives of Roman Identity in the Fasti by Angeline Chiu Christopher Trinacty Angeline Chiu. Ovid’s Women of the Year: Narratives of Roman Identity in the Fasti. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2016. Pp. ix, 209. $70.00. ISBN 978-0-472-13004-7. Chiu’s monograph aims to illuminate how Ovid’s Fasti interacts with exempla from Livy and Vergil, events from the reign of Augustus, and Ovid’s own previou…
Imago res mortua est
In Brill's Companion to the Reception of Senecan Tragedy, Dodson-Robinson incorporates interdisciplinary essays tracing how Western writers from antiquity to the present have transformed Senecan drama to develop competing tragic visions of agency and the human place in the universe
Intertextual translation in Ovid, Seneca, and Ted Hughes
This article examines how Ovid, Seneca, and Ted Hughes incorporate intertexts to Latin or English poets (respectively) in their translations. These intertexts effectively become sites to negotiate their reception of their poetic predecessors. It is shown that their translations thus act as marked instances of metapoetic, thematic, and philosophical reflection, and reveal the manner in which these poets have read the poetry of their predecessors a…
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Reviewed by: Lucius Annaeus Seneca: Letters on Ethics to Lucilius trans. Margaret Graver and A. A. Long Christopher Trinacty Margaret Graver and A. A. Long (tr. with introduction and commentary). Lucius Annaeus Seneca: Letters on Ethics to Lucilius. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 2015. Pp. xxviii, 604. $65.00. ISBN 978–0-226–26517–9. Graver and Long’s translation of Seneca’s magnum opus, his Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium, is…
Senecan Tragedy
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The Cambridge Companion to Seneca
The Roman statesman, philosopher and playwright Lucius Annaeus Seneca dramatically influenced the progression of Western thought. His works have had an unparalleled impact on the development of ethical theory, shaping a code of behavior for dealing with tyranny in his own age that endures today. This Companion thoroughly examines the complete Senecan corpus, with special emphasis on the aspects of his writings that have challenged interpretation.…
Intertextuality and Character
The second chapter provides close readings of Seneca’s Phaedra and Medea, concentrating on the way that intertexts with Ovid’s Metamorphoses and Heroides help to create the characters of Medea and Phaedra. The personae that Phaedra and Medea assume during the tragedies are dependent on their Ovidian literary history, but Seneca attempts to reclaim these characters for the tragic genre. Medea’s seeming self-awareness of her literary antecedents le…
Intertextuality and Plot
Intertextuality affects the formal features of Senecan tragedy; Seneca innovates his prologue speeches, choral odes, and messenger speeches by incorporating intertextual references. Prologue speakers introduce meaningful imagery for the play. Suggestive intertexts often foreshadow tragic action (Hercules Furens, Oedipus). The strong influence of Horace on Seneca’s choral odes is emphasized. Seneca includes this Horatian language elsewhere in the …
Epilogue
This brief epilogue summarizes the methodology that has been employed throughout the book. Stress is placed on Seneca’s creation of personae, and this is shown to be a trait of his contemporary rhetoric. Seneca’s intertextual method allows him to reenvision his predecessors’ works in the tragic genre. In a nutshell, you are what you read; the multiplicity of influences on Seneca helps him create his tragic style, but he is always interested in cr…
Seneca the Reader
The first chapter discusses instances in which Seneca quotes the Augustan poets in his prose works, and the same quotation is the basis for an intertext in his tragedies. By examining these common lines, one can see the importance of the context (original and Senecan) for the interpretation of that line as well as the intricacy and erudition of Seneca’s poetry. Reading these shared lines helps our understanding of Seneca’s Troades, Phaedra, Hercu…
Senecan Tragedy and the Reception of Augustan Poetry
This book investigates selected moments of intertextual dialogue between Seneca’s tragedies and the Augustan poets (focusing on Vergil, Horace, and Ovid) in order to develop a better understanding of Senecan poetics. Seneca acts as a reader of the Augustan tradition and incorporates his interpretation of the poetry of his predecessors in his tragedies. Because tragedy is a mélange of different genres, Seneca believes it to be the most effective g…
A Note on Propertius 1.1.24
Like Father, Like Son
In his Epistulae Morales and tragedies, Seneca the Younger is influenced by the rhetorical works of his father. That Seneca should be a careful and curious reader of his father's work is not surprising; what may be surprising is that in his use of imitatio he recalls his father's directives, while also developing them according to his philosophical and literary interests. Seneca the Younger imitates passages from his father's work that are concer…
Seneca's Heroides
This paper analyzes the intertextual relationship between Seneca?s Medea and Ovid?s Heroides. Seneca utilizes the Heroides not only to flesh out his characterization of Medea, but to examine the differences (and similarities) between the genres of elegy and tragedy. Seneca?s Medea owes her elegiac background to Ovid, but her actions in the play reveal a self-conscious character striving to surpass previous representations
Senecan Tragedy and the Reception of Augustan Poetry
This book investigates selected moments of intertextual dialogue between Seneca’s tragedies and the Augustan poets (focusing on Vergil, Horace, and Ovid) in order to develop a better understanding of Senecan poetics. Seneca acts as a reader of the Augustan tradition and incorporates his interpretation of the poetry of his predecessors in his tragedies. Because tragedy is a mélange of different genres, Seneca believes it to be the most effective g…
Like Father, Like Son
In his Epistulae Morales and tragedies, Seneca the Younger is influenced by the rhetorical works of his father. That Seneca should be a careful and curious reader of his father's work is not surprising; what may be surprising is that in his use of imitatio he recalls his father's directives, while also developing them according to his philosophical and literary interests. Seneca the Younger imitates passages from his father's work that are concer…
Seneca's Heroides
This paper analyzes the intertextual relationship between Seneca?s Medea and Ovid?s Heroides. Seneca utilizes the Heroides not only to flesh out his characterization of Medea, but to examine the differences (and similarities) between the genres of elegy and tragedy. Seneca?s Medea owes her elegiac background to Ovid, but her actions in the play reveal a self-conscious character striving to surpass previous representations
Like Father, Like Son
In his Epistulae Morales and tragedies, Seneca the Younger is influenced by the rhetorical works of his father. That Seneca should be a careful and curious reader of his father's work is not surprising; what may be surprising is that in his use of imitatio he recalls his father's directives, while also developing them according to his philosophical and literary interests. Seneca the Younger imitates passages from his father's work that are concer…
A Note on Propertius 1.1.24
Intertextuality and Character
The second chapter provides close readings of Seneca’s Phaedra and Medea, concentrating on the way that intertexts with Ovid’s Metamorphoses and Heroides help to create the characters of Medea and Phaedra. The personae that Phaedra and Medea assume during the tragedies are dependent on their Ovidian literary history, but Seneca attempts to reclaim these characters for the tragic genre. Medea’s seeming self-awareness of her literary antecedents le…
Intertextuality and Plot
Intertextuality affects the formal features of Senecan tragedy; Seneca innovates his prologue speeches, choral odes, and messenger speeches by incorporating intertextual references. Prologue speakers introduce meaningful imagery for the play. Suggestive intertexts often foreshadow tragic action (Hercules Furens, Oedipus). The strong influence of Horace on Seneca’s choral odes is emphasized. Seneca includes this Horatian language elsewhere in the …
Epilogue
This brief epilogue summarizes the methodology that has been employed throughout the book. Stress is placed on Seneca’s creation of personae, and this is shown to be a trait of his contemporary rhetoric. Seneca’s intertextual method allows him to reenvision his predecessors’ works in the tragic genre. In a nutshell, you are what you read; the multiplicity of influences on Seneca helps him create his tragic style, but he is always interested in cr…
Seneca the Reader
The first chapter discusses instances in which Seneca quotes the Augustan poets in his prose works, and the same quotation is the basis for an intertext in his tragedies. By examining these common lines, one can see the importance of the context (original and Senecan) for the interpretation of that line as well as the intricacy and erudition of Seneca’s poetry. Reading these shared lines helps our understanding of Seneca’s Troades, Phaedra, Hercu…
Senecan Tragedy and the Reception of Augustan Poetry
This book investigates selected moments of intertextual dialogue between Seneca’s tragedies and the Augustan poets (focusing on Vergil, Horace, and Ovid) in order to develop a better understanding of Senecan poetics. Seneca acts as a reader of the Augustan tradition and incorporates his interpretation of the poetry of his predecessors in his tragedies. Because tragedy is a mélange of different genres, Seneca believes it to be the most effective g…
Senecan Tragedy
A summary is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content.
The Cambridge Companion to Seneca
The Roman statesman, philosopher and playwright Lucius Annaeus Seneca dramatically influenced the progression of Western thought. His works have had an unparalleled impact on the development of ethical theory, shaping a code of behavior for dealing with tyranny in his own age that endures today. This Companion thoroughly examines the complete Senecan corpus, with special emphasis on the aspects of his writings that have challenged interpretation.…
Imago res mortua est
In Brill's Companion to the Reception of Senecan Tragedy, Dodson-Robinson incorporates interdisciplinary essays tracing how Western writers from antiquity to the present have transformed Senecan drama to develop competing tragic visions of agency and the human place in the universe
Intertextual translation in Ovid, Seneca, and Ted Hughes
This article examines how Ovid, Seneca, and Ted Hughes incorporate intertexts to Latin or English poets (respectively) in their translations. These intertexts effectively become sites to negotiate their reception of their poetic predecessors. It is shown that their translations thus act as marked instances of metapoetic, thematic, and philosophical reflection, and reveal the manner in which these poets have read the poetry of their predecessors a…
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Reviewed by: Lucius Annaeus Seneca: Letters on Ethics to Lucilius trans. Margaret Graver and A. A. Long Christopher Trinacty Margaret Graver and A. A. Long (tr. with introduction and commentary). Lucius Annaeus Seneca: Letters on Ethics to Lucilius. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 2015. Pp. xxviii, 604. $65.00. ISBN 978–0-226–26517–9. Graver and Long’s translation of Seneca’s magnum opus, his Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium, is…
Tibullus’ Comedy
Ovid’s Women of the Year
Reviewed by: Ovid’s Women of the Year: Narratives of Roman Identity in the Fasti by Angeline Chiu Christopher Trinacty Angeline Chiu. Ovid’s Women of the Year: Narratives of Roman Identity in the Fasti. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2016. Pp. ix, 209. $70.00. ISBN 978-0-472-13004-7. Chiu’s monograph aims to illuminate how Ovid’s Fasti interacts with exempla from Livy and Vergil, events from the reign of Augustus, and Ovid’s own previou…
Nulla res est quae non eius quo nascitur notas reddat (Nat. 3.21.2)
Non est facile inter mala magna consipere
Book 6 of Seneca’s Naturales Quaestiones offers an exemplary illustration of the way that Seneca blends Stoic physics and ethics with an eye to the ethical benefits of seeking and achieving knowledge of the physical world. This happens, primarily, through the rhetoric of his account, and this paper treats the language and literary devices that Seneca employs to discuss earthquakes and their traumatic effects on individuals. He encourages close re…
Memmius, Cicero and Lucretius
A recent piece in this journal by Morgan and Taylor made the case that C. Memmius is not to be seen as an active prosecutor of Epicureanism but rather as an Epicurean himself, who merely has disagreed with the grimly orthodox Epicurean sect in Athens. As such, Memmius’ building intentions for Epicurus’ home could have been to create an honorary monument or possibly even construct a grander locus for pilgrimage and the practice of Epicureanism. Th…
Bacchic Batman
This paper investigates the ways that Tom King’s Batman: Killing Time (2022) blends a telling of Euripides’ Bacchae with the more traditional story of a super-villain bank heist. The heist mobilises characters such as Catwoman and the Riddler against Batman as they try to secure possession of an ancient artefact. This artefact turns out to have ancient Greek provenance and allows King to emphasise how his tale evokes and responds to Euripides’ pl…
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