Complex Inferiorities: The Poetics of the Weaker Voice in Latin Literature

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by  Sebastian Matzner, Stephen J. Harrison

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Complex Inferiorities: The Poetics of the Weaker
Voice in Latin Literature
Sebastian Matzner and Stephen Harrison
Print publication date: 2018
Print ISBN-13: 9780198814061
Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: December 2018
DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780198814061.001.0001
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Complex Inferiorities: The Poetics of the Weaker
Voice in Latin Literature
Sebastian Matzner and Stephen Harrison
Print publication date: 2018
Print ISBN-13: 9780198814061
Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: December 2018
DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780198814061.001.0001
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Acknowledgements
Complex Inferiorities: The Poetics of the Weaker
Voice in Latin Literature
Sebastian Matzner and Stephen Harrison
Print publication date: 2018
Print ISBN-13: 9780198814061
Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: December 2018
DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780198814061.001.0001
(p.v) Acknowledgements
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This volume would not have been possible without the enthusiasm, expertise,
and responsiveness of its contributors: from the moment they accepted the
invitation to the eponymous conference, held under the auspices of the Centre
for the Study of Greek and Roman Antiquity at Corpus Christi College, Oxford,
on 4 and 5 September 2014, each one of them engaged spiritedly, generously,
and rigorously with the project as a whole. The fact that this volume is very
much the book-shaped version of a conversation—which began with pre-
circulated papers and incisive responses, continued with rich conference
discussions and further reflective dialogue between contributors and editors,
and now finds its final form in the pages that follow—is above all a testament to
the contributors’ commitment, patience, and good humour. They have made this
volume what it is.
The original conference itself was fortunate enough to receive support from
many different sources. Our gratitude goes to the John Fell Fund, the Craven
Fund, and the Classical Association for their generous financial help as well as
to the staff of Corpus Christi College for their wonderful hospitality. As the
Complex Inferiorities project and this resulting volume are one of the fruits of a
Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship awarded to Sebastian Matzner and held at
the Faculty of Classics in conjunction with the P. S. Allen Research Fellowship at
Corpus Christi College, special thanks are due to both the Trust and the Fellows
of Corpus.
We would also like to thank Charlotte Loveridge, Georgina Leighton, and the
superb team at Oxford University Press for their professionalism in all matters,
great and small, and, last but not least, the two anonymous readers for the
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Press, whose voices run ever so obliquely through this volume but did much to
improve the final product.
Sebastian Matzner
Stephen Harrison
London and Oxford
December 2017 (p.vi)
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Note on Abbreviations
Complex Inferiorities: The Poetics of the Weaker
Voice in Latin Literature
Sebastian Matzner and Stephen Harrison
Print publication date: 2018
Print ISBN-13: 9780198814061
Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: December 2018
DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780198814061.001.0001
(p.ix) Note on Abbreviations
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Greek and Latin authors and works are abbreviated following the practice of the
Liddell–Scott–Jones Greek–English Lexicon and the Oxford Latin Dictionary,
respectively, and journals according to that of L’Année Philologique. (p.x)
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List of Contributors
Complex Inferiorities: The Poetics of the Weaker
Voice in Latin Literature
Sebastian Matzner and Stephen Harrison
Print publication date: 2018
Print ISBN-13: 9780198814061
Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: December 2018
DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780198814061.001.0001
(p.xi) List of Contributors
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Shadi Bartsch
is Helen A. Regenstein Distinguished Service Professor of Classics at
the University of Chicago. Her research focuses on the literature and
philosophy of the Neronian period, especially the authors Lucan,
Seneca, and Persius. Her interpretations often draw from cultural
history, and she is particularly interested in the meeting-point of
poetic and philosophical genres. Her most recent books include
Persius: A Study in Food, Philosophy, and the Figural (Chicago, 2015)
and The Cambridge Companion to the Age of Nero (ed. with K.
Freudenburg and C. Littlewood, Cambridge, 2017).
William Fitzgerald
is Professor of Latin Language and Literature at King’s College
London. His main research interests centre on Latin poetry, but he
has also worked on Latin prose (Pliny the Younger and Apuleius) as
well as topics in comparative literature and classical reception.
Among his monographs are Catullan Provocations: Lyric Poetry and
the Drama of Position (Berkeley, 1995); Slavery and the Roman
Literary Imagination (Cambridge, 2000); and Martial: The
Epigrammatic World (Chicago, 2007). His latest book is Variety: The
Life of a Roman Concept (Chicago, 2016).
Tom Geue
is British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of St
Andrews where he will soon take up a lectureship in Latin. His
research investigates literature’s complex engagements with (and
disengagements from) the political, with a particular interest in the
conditions of writing under the Roman Principate and the contested
ground of the ‘self’ as a site for such literary-political
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(dis-)engagements. He has recently published his doctoral thesis
turned monograph, entitled Juvenal and the Poetics of Anonymity
(Cambridge, 2017) and is now writing up his next book Author
Unknown: Anonymity in Ancient Rome.
Philip Hardie
is a Senior Research Fellow at Trinity College, Cambridge, and
Honorary Professor of Latin Literature in the University of
Cambridge. His research covers a wide range of topics in Latin
literature (especially epic poetry), the reception of Latin literature
(especially in the Renaissance), and Neo-Latin poetry. Major (p.xii)
monographs include Virgil’s Aeneid: Cosmos and Imperium (Oxford,
1986); The Epic Successors of Virgil (Cambridge, 1993); Ovid’s
Poetics of Illusion (Cambridge, 2002); Lucretian Receptions: History,
The Sublime, Knowledge (Cambridge, 2009); Rumour and Renown:
Representations of Fama in Western Literature (Cambridge, 2012);
and The Last Trojan Hero: A Cultural History of Virgil’s Aeneid
(London, 2014). He has co-edited (with P. Cheney) the volume on the
Renaissance in the Oxford History of Classical Reception in English
Literature (Oxford, 2015). He gave the 2016 Sather Lectures at
Berkeley on ‘Classicism and Christianity in Late Antique Latin
Poetry’.
Stephen Harrison
is Professor of Latin Literature at the University of Oxford and Fellow
and Tutor in Latin at Corpus Christi College, Oxford. His main
research and teaching interests are in Latin literature and its
reception. He has written monographs on Vergil, Horace, and
Apuleius, and has edited, co-edited, or co-authored more than twenty
books on Vergil, Horace, the Roman novel, Classics and literary
theory, and Latin literature in general, as well as on the reception of
classical literature. His recent publications include Victorian Horace:
Classics and Class (London, 2017) and a commentary on Horace Odes
2 (Cambridge, 2017).
G. O. Hutchinson
is Regius Professor of Greek at the University of Oxford. He has
written: Aeschylus, Septem contra Thebas, Edited with Introduction
and Commentary (Oxford, 1985); Hellenistic Poetry (Oxford, 1988);
Latin Literature from Seneca to Juvenal: A Critical Study (Oxford,
1993); Cicero’s Correspondence: A Literary Study (Oxford, 1998);
Greek Lyric Poetry: A Commentary on Selected Larger Pieces
(Oxford, 2001); Propertius: Elegies Book IV (Cambridge, 2006);
Talking Books: Readings in Hellenistic and Roman Books of Poetry
(Oxford, 2008); and Greek to Latin: Frameworks and Contexts for
Intertextuality (Oxford, 2013).
Jean-Claude Julhe
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is Maître de Conférences at the Université de Paris-Sorbonne where
his work focuses on Latin poetry of the Late Republic and the
Principate, with a special interest in the history of elegy and the
epigrammatic genre. He has explored the former in his monograph La
critique littéraire chez Catulle et les Elégiaques augustéens: Genèse
et jeunesse de l’élégie à Rome (Paris, 2004) and the latter in a range
of articles, often engaging in particular with Martial. He has also
edited a collection on Pratiques latines de la (p.xiii) dédicace:
Permanence et mutations, de l’Antiquité à la Renaissance (Paris,
2014).
Dunstan Lowe
is Lecturer in Latin Literature at the University of Kent. His main
area of research is Roman poetry, especially Vergil and Ovid, with
further interests in the role of classical antiquity in modern culture,
notably in video games and other entertainment media. He has
published articles on various Roman authors and a book entitled
Monsters and Monstrosity in Augustan Rome (Ann Arbor, 2015). His
current major project is a study of ugliness as a social construct in
ancient Rome.
Sebastian Matzner
is Senior Lecturer in Comparative Literature at King’s College
London. His research focuses on interactions between ancient and
modern literature and thought, especially in the fields of poetics and
rhetoric, literary and critical theory, history of sexualities, LGBTQ
studies, and traditions of classicism. He has published several articles
and book chapters in these fields and is the author of Rethinking
Metonymy: Literary Theory and Poetic Practice from Pindar to
Jakobson (Oxford, 2016) as well as co-editor of a forthcoming volume
on Breaking and Entering: Metalepsis in Classical Literature (with G.
Trimble).
Ellen O’Gorman
is Senior Lecturer in Classics at the University of Bristol. Her
research on Latin poetry and prose, and its reception, is driven by a
wide range of literary and theoretical interests. Her monograph Irony
and Misreading in the Annals of Tacitus (Cambridge, 2000) and
numerous articles examine the language of ideology in the works of
Tacitus and promote a more sophisticated approach to the language
of the ancient historians. Her interests in ideology and memory have
also led to a number of publications on Augustan and post-Augustan
poetry, especially in epic, while her theoretical interest in
psychoanalysis and reading, which informs her analysis of how
ideology is expressed, received, and critiqued, has resulted in the
collection Classical Myth and Psychoanalysis: Ancient and Modern
Stories of the Self (ed. with V. Zajko, Oxford, 2013).
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