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Reading Roman Declamation – Calpurnius Flaccus Beiträge zur Altertumskunde Herausgegeben von Susanne Daub, Michael Erler, Dorothee Gall, Ludwig Koenen und Clemens Zintzen Band 348 Reading Roman Declamation – Calpurnius Flaccus Edited by Martin T. Dinter, Charles Guérin, Marcos Martinho ISBN 978-3-11-040124-0 e-ISBN (PDF) 978-3-11-040155-4 e-ISBN (EPUB) 978-3-11-040163-9 ISSN 1616-0452 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data A CIP catalog record for this book has been applied for at the Library of Congress. Bibliographic information published by the Deutsche Nationalbibliothek The Deutsche Nationalbibliothek lists this publication in the Deutsche Nationalbibliografie; detailed bibliographic data are available on the Internet at http://dnb.dnb.de. © 2017 Walter de Gruyter GmbH, Berlin/Boston Printing and binding: Hubert & Co. GmbH & Co. KG, Göttingen ♾ Printed on acid-free paper Printed in Germany www.degruyter.com Acknowledgements The papers in thisvolume stem froma conference held at the Maison de la Re- cherche,UniversitéParis-SorbonneinFebruary2014,whichhasbeengenerously supported by the Institut Universitaire de France. Specialthanksinthenameoftheco-organisersandallparticipantsaredue to Charles Guérin (UPEC), whose travails and organisational skills made this event possible – gratias tibi agimus. Thepresentbookisthesecondinaseriesofthreeeditedvolumesthatshow- casecurrentresearchinRomanDeclamationundertheheading‘ReadingRoman Declamation’.AvolumeonPs-QuintilianhasappearedwithDeGruyterin2016, one on Seneca the Elder (OUP) will be published in 2018. Wewouldalsoliketothanktheeditorsofthisseriesaswellastheeditorial team at De Gruyter, Katharina Legutke and Mirko Vonderstein, for their swift, kind and professional co-operation. Antonia Ruppel’s and Astrid Khoo’s astute copy-editing has made life easier for all of us, many thanks to them. Astrid Khoo has also kindly compiled the index locorum and the index rerum for this volume. Lastbutnotleast,weacknowledgewithgratitudeasignificantcontribution towards the production costs of this volume by the Institut Universitaire de France. Martin T. Dinter (King’s College London) CharlesGuérin(UniversitéParisEst-Créteil) Marcos Martinho (University of São Paulo) https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110401554-001 Table of Contents Martin T. Dinter and Charles Guérin Introduction: Calpurnius – a postmodern author? 1 Jonathan E. Mannering Declamation 2.0 – Reading Calpurnius ‘Whole’ 9 Lydia Spielberg Non contenti exemplis saeculi vestri: Intertextuality and the Declamatory Tradition in Calpurnius Flaccus 45 Catherine Schneider (Re)lire la déclamation romaine: le Soldat de Marius par Calpurnius Flaccus 77 Alfredo Casamento Colorem timere peius quam sanguinem. Paintings, family strifeand heroism 97 Andrea Balbo Problems of Paremiography in Calpurnius Flaccus 113 Biagio Santorelli Metrical and accentual clausulae as evidence for the date and origin of Calpurnius Flaccus 129 Michael Winterbottom The Editors of Calpurnius Flaccus 143 Bibliography 163 Subject Index 177 Index locorum 179 Martin T. Dinter and Charles Guérin Introduction: Calpurnius – a postmodern author? Every generation of students has their particular frame of cultural reference of which those teaching make frequent use. We will find that in a similar way Roman declamation can relyon its audience’s awareness of itsgeneric conven- tions: pirates, ghosts,evil stepmothers,blind sons andviolent tyrants people a worldasweirdasitiswonderfulandprovideamplefodderforteachersofrhet- oricandtheirstudents.Theydiscuss(inallseriousness)fictionalcourtcasesso astoprovidetrainingtofuturelawyersanddisplayafireworkofrhetoricalskill. When read sociologically, rhetorical education fosters social reproduction and helps to shape a young man’s attitudes and behavior; it teaches him how to be a Roman citizen. For he will train to navigate the Roman concept of patria potestasthatgivesafatheroverbearinglegalpoweroverthemembersofhisfam- ily;he willarguewith fictionaltyrants ratherthan question theauthorityofac- tualemperorsandthusfindhisplaceinimperialhierarchy;hewilllearntosort outthesocialmessthattransgressionssuchasrapecauseandabsorbthemoral precepts and approved values of his peers. In addition, he will imbibe how to reinforce the poor-rich and the slave-free divide through the examples Roman declamation provides.¹ When read from this socio-political perspective we ob- serve how Roman declamation turns Roman boys into Roman men.² Whatismore,scholarshaverecentlylavishedtheirattentiononRomandec- lamation’scontroversiae(mocklegalspeeches)andsuasoriae(mockspeechesof advice,usuallytosomegreatman)andhaveallowedthesegenrestoleavetheir neglected corners. Important studies by Gunderson (2003), Schröder (2003), Berti (2007), Frazel (2009) and Bernstein (2013) have placed declamatio centre- stage and illuminate social concepts such as authority, educational practices, cultural context or Roman jurisdiction.³ A number of recent edited volumes have enriched the field further: Amato, Citti and Huelsenbeck (2015) places its focus on ethics and law in Greek and Roman declamation. Lentano (2015), Poignault and Schneider (2016) as well as Casamento,van Mal-Maeder and Pa- Corbeill(2007)77–81andBloomer(2007)298analyzedeclamations’mostcommonthemes. Cf.Bloomer(2011)170–92. ThejournalRhetoricahasdedicatedtwoissues(springandsummer1995)toQuintilian’soeuvre. MartinT.Dinter,King’sCollegeLondonandCharlesGuérin,UniversitéParisEst-Créteil https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110401554-002 2 MartinT.DinterandCharlesGuérin setti (2016) which concentrates on Quintilian’s minor declamations and Dinter, Guérin, Martinho (2016) showcase declamation as self-conscious literary genre,similarlytothevolumeinhand.PreviouslyGleason(1996)hadsmoothed the way for a recognition of rhetoric as the fashioning of the self, as a cultural process that facilitates not merely gender definition – how to be a real man – butalsoreinforcesclaims ofpaideia,Graecitas,Romanitas,and status.In addi- tion, Beard (1993) ingeniously saw declamation as playing the role of myth in earlierGreekculture,inthatitprovidesthesourceofstorytellingRomanculture, and a space for the exercise of this culture’s imagination. Naturally,whenplacedintoitssocio-historicalcontextthebodyofdeclama- tionsthathascomedowntous(SenecatheElder,Ps.-QuintilianandCalpurnius Flaccus) echoes its cultural, social and literarybackground.These texts arenot independentandhavetobereadwithintheircontexts,butatthesametimethey also constitute a genre on their own, the rhetorical and literary framework of whichremainsnotyetfullyexplored.Itremainstobeasked:whatarethepoetics of declamatio? Asagenresituatedatthecrossroadofrhetoricandfiction,declamatiooffers thefreedomandabilitytoexperimentnewformsofdiscourse,andcallsforboth atechnicalandliteraryanalysis.Ifoneplacestheliterarinessofdeclamatiointo thespotlight(vanMal-Maeder2007)–declamatiohasbeenhailedbyBloomeras ‘the first literary movement of the Roman empire’ (2007:297) – it becomespos- sible to study it as a realm of genuine literarycreation with its own theoretical underpinning, rather than simply reading it as a gratuitous exercise mimicking the practice of real orators. Of the three Roman authors whose declamations have survived,the corpus ofQuintilianhasattractedthehighestdegreeofscholarlyattention.TheCassino series of commentaries coordinatedby Antonio Stramaglia has almostcomplet- editstasktoprovideacommentaryoneachofQuintilian’sMajorDeclamations. In addition Santorelli has made accessible tous Håkanson’s previously unpub- lished research on the Major Declamations and Santorelli, Stramaglia and Win- terbottomareatpresentpreparinganewLoebeditionofthatverycorpus.⁴What ismore,Lentanoiscurrentlypreparingaresearchreport(Forschungsbericht)for Lustrumthatwillprovideadetailedoverviewofexistingsecondaryliterature.He has also justpublished a‘profile’ of Roman declamationwhichmakesthe field everthemoreaccessibletotheinterestedpublic.⁵SenecatheElderisequallyen- joyingarevivalofinterestwithrecentpublicationsincludingthemonographsof Håkanson(2014). Lentano(2017).
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