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On the road with Tibullus

Aporia or castration as the way of love

Dados Bibliográficos

ID20076529
AutoresPaul Allen Miller (0000-0001-5111-1470, autor correspondente)
Ano2021
Páginas98-113
Data de publicação2021-08-06
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoCHAPTER
PeriódicoTravel, Geography, and Empire in Latin Poetry (SOURCE_BOOK)
EditoraRoutledge (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.4324/9781003120773-6-6
OpenAlexW3192798755
ISBN9781003120773
IdiomaEN

In poem 1.7, Tibullus celebrates the accomplishments of Messalla as an incarnation of Osiris. The occasion of the poem is the birthday of the triumphant general, and the mythic evocation of the god that occupies its center, as in a Pindaric ode, was meant to reflect the glory of the laudandus. The identification of Messalla, a Roman patrician, with the eastern, castrated consort of Isis is striking. In part, poem’s the mythic center functions so as to equate the prominent Roman general, literary patron, and political personality with the extent of the empire—its global reach under the reign of Octavian and its mapping of a new cosmopolitan world of conquest and exchange stretching from Aquitaine in the West to the Nile in the East. This paper offers a Lacanian reading of Tibullus’s assimilation of Messalla’s accomplishments to the Egyptian god, arguing that the poem’s focus on Messalla’s travel and conquests, including his status as road-builder, is inseparable from his embodiment of the Law of the father, a role that always assumes both the possession of the phallus and its submission to the law under the sign of castration

Art · Castration · Psychoanalysis · Sociology · Classical Antiquity Studies · Gender Studies · History · Medicine · Psychology · Internal Medicine

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