Teaching Through Images: Imagery in Greco-Roman Didactic Poetry

388 Pages·2022·2.059 MB·English

by  Jenny Strauss Clay, Athanassios Vergados

TeachingthroughImages
Mnemosyne
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K.M.Coleman(HarvardUniversity)
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volume 450
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Teaching through Images
ImageryinGreco-RomanDidacticPoetry
Editedby
JennyStraussClay
AthanassiosVergados
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ThroughImages:ImageryinGreekandRomanDidacticPoetry(Conference)
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ChristophLeidl
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Contents
Preface ix
ANoteonAbbreviations x
NotesonContributors xi
1 Introduction 1
JennyStraussClayandAthanassiosVergados
2 TiesThatBind:VerbalFettersandRingCompositioninHesiod’s
Theogony 23
JennyStraussClay
3 ConstructingOtherErasinDidacticPoetry:TwoCase-Studies 39
ZoeStamatopoulou
4 DesigningaCosmicArchitecture:CraftsmanshipinEmpedocles’
Poetry 63
IlariaAndolfi
5 AnImageSublime:TheMilkyWayinAratusandManilius 82
PatrickGlauthier
6 AtomisticImagery:RepetitionandReflectionoftheWorldinLucretius’
DeRerumNatura 105
AbigailBuglass
7 AreLucretius’ImagesClear? 137
JosephFarrell
8 Grain,Atoms,andDidactics:“Broken”ImagesinLucretius’DeRerum
Natura 172
EvaMarieNoller
9 AQuietSoul:TheSuppressedImageofHarmony-TheoryinDeRerum
Natura 190
NoahDavies-Mason
viii contents
10 PlaguesandtheLimitsofDidacticAuthority:Lucretiusand
Others 205
MonicaR.Gale
11 GigantomachyandSpontaneousGrowthintheGeorgics 231
ZackaryRider
12 TemporaMutantur:MetamorphicImageryinOvid’sFasti 257
AnkeWalter
13 TeachingthroughExemplaintheArsAmatoria:TheCaseof
Pasiphae 272
JohnF.Miller
14 ThinkinginImages:TheConstructionofImaginaryLandscapesin
DionysiusPeriegetes,Avienius,andPriscianus 290
ArnoldBärtschi
15 TheCulturalWarfareofHunting:MilitaryImageryinGrattius’
CynegeticaandAugustanDidactic 321
ChristophG.Leidl†
16 Pseudo-Oppian’sDidacticPathsintheCynegetica 338
AthanassiosVergados
IndexRerum 361
IndexLocorum 367
Preface
Themajorityofthechapterscollectedinthisvolumebegantheirlifeaspapers
deliveredataconferenceonimageryinGreco-Romandidacticpoetryorgan-
isedattheUniversityofHeidelbergon1st–3rdJuly2016.Wewouldliketothank
theparticipantsinthisconferenceandtheaudienceforthestimulatingdiscus-
sion.TheconferencewassupportedbyagrantfromtheStiftungHumanismus
heute, for which we thank the foundation and Prof. Bernhard Zimmermann
(Freiburg)whomadethispossible.
WewouldliketoexpressourgratitudetoBrillforacceptingthisvolumefor
publication,andespeciallytoGiuliaMoriconiforherexpertguidancethrough-
outthisprocess,toMillieGallwhoproofreadtheentiretypescript,andtoPaul
Gruitersandhisproductionteam.Thanksareduealsototheanonymousreader
forthePressforhis/herconstructivefeedbackandrecommendations,which
helpedimprovethevolume.
Sadly,oneof thisvolume’sauthors,ChristophGeorgLeidl,passedawayin
2019.Those of us who had the luck to work with him in Heidelberg remem-
berhimasanextremelyknowledgeable,witty,andkindcolleague,whocon-
tributedtirelesslybothintheclassroomandtotheSeminar’slifeandadminis-
trationingeneral.Weallrememberfondlyhislearnedcommentsduringthe
discussion at our conference in Heidelberg and dedicate this volume to his
memory.
June2021
Charlottesville,VA/Newcastle,UK
JSC/AV
A Note on Abbreviations
GreekauthorsandworksareabbreviatedaccordingtoLSJ9.ForRomanauthors
andworkswefollowOLD.JournalsareabbreviatedaccordingtoL’AnnéePhilo-
logique.