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Vaananen, Katrina Victoria. "Renaissance Reception of Classical Poetry in Fracastoro’s Morbus Gallicus." The Ohio State University, 2017. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1506444910819066.
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Ward, Marchella. "Towards a grammar of theatrical blindness." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2018. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:8376616c-d537-4e2e-93ad-6f06665d252d.
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Since the fifth century, the theatre has been a place for seeing. In spite of this, blind figures repeatedly appear on the stage, from Oedipus, Polymestor, Tiresias and the Cyclops to Shakespeare's Gloucester, Beckett's Hamm, Friel's Molly Sweeney and Kane's Ian. These blind characters have an important role to play in articulating the task of the spectator, both in their aural and imaginative construction of the fictional world in pre-naturalistic theatre, and also in their ability to see through the dramatic illusion in later drama. These scenes of blindness and blinding also have consequences for reception studies, since the relationship between them is not straightforwardly a textual reception history. Instead, these blind characters and the scenes in which they appear are read as what Deleuze and Guattari term an 'assemblage': a heterogenous multiplicity that is produced at the moment of reading / watching with reference to other scenes of blindness and blinding. This thesis sketches out a grammar for such an assemblage, and each chapter focuses on a rule in this grammar. When read as part of an assemblage of blindness, blind characters always have a special relationship with death (Chapter 2), showcase their own performance (Chapter 3), undermine the fictional setting that has been established onstage (Chapter 4), have access to a kind of superhuman knowledge (Chapter 5) and alter the position of their spectators (Chapter 6). Each chapter is structured around a particular moment when the theatre's interest in blind characters resurges, as a response to changes in the social, cultural or scientific understanding of vision and visual impairment. In each chapter, the grammar that is outlined in Chapter 1 with reference to ancient plays returns to the fore, but is refracted through the historical period back on to the grammar of the assemblage.
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Stefanidou, Agapi. "The Reception of epic Kleos in Greek Tragedy." The Ohio State University, 2014. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1386695983.
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Ryan, John. "Science and Poetry in the Early Reception of Aratus'' Phaenomena." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2016. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1464964828.
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Kampakoglou, Alexandros. "Studies in the reception of Pindar in Hellenistic poetry." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2011. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:f97a0403-6f42-41c5-bff2-f7b3991fc48b.
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This thesis examines the reception of Pindar in Hellenistic poetry. More specifically it examines texts of three major Hellenistic poets: Theocritus of Syracuse, Callimachus of Cyrene and Posidippus of Pella. The texts discussed have been selected on the basis of two principles: (i) genre and (ii) subject matter. They include texts that inscribe themselves in the tradition of encomiastic, and more specifically, Pindaric poetry either through the generic discourse which they partake in or through the employment of myths that Pindar had used in his own odes. Throughout the thesis it is argued that the connections with Pindaric passages are carried out on the basis of ‘allusions’ which are picked up by the readers. This term is employed to describe one of the ways in which intertextuality functions. Following the model of Conte and Barchiesi, the discussion insists on the distinction between allusions to specific Pindaric passages and allusions to epinician generic motifs that can best be illustrated through Pindaric passages. The aim of the discussion for each case of textual correspondence suggested is to describe the means whereby this connection is suggested to the reader and to propose a ‘meaning’ for it. In this sense, equal emphasis is given to the detailed examination of all texts that partake in the intertextual connection suggested, i.e. to Pindaric and Hellenistic alike.
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Richards, John. "Thucydides in the Circle of Philip Melanchthon." The Ohio State University, 2013. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1376788422.
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Sheldrake, Cara Elanor. "The history of Belerion : an investigation into the discussions of Greeks and Romans in Cornwall." Thesis, University of Exeter, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10871/8426.
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"Who controls the past [...] controls the future: who controls the present controls the past". In the first century BCE Diodorus of Sicily described a corner of the British Isles he called Belerion and drew attention to the ingenious way the inhabitants extracted tin and the civilised manner they had acquired through trading that metal. In 2012 a tourist may stay in a bed and breakfast near Penzance or buy books from a shop named after that promontory. However, during the nineteenth century a debate amongst historians arose as to the meaning of Diodorus' Greek text, its relationship to other classical texts and the status of Cornwall in antiquity. The discussion involved at least ten treatments specifically of the topic in Cornwall alone and was incorporated into a variety of other narratives. The debate offers an unusual insight into the role of classical texts in the description and understanding of local identity. This thesis looks at passages from the classical world that have been linked to Cornwall and which often have very little academic scholarship relating to them, and examines how they have been interpreted by Cornish historians. It will show how, despite the inconclusiveness of the ancient material, a connection between Cornwall and Greek and Roman traders has been constructed by Cornish writers, and why they were interested in doing so. This thesis suggests that the political and social contexts of local historiographers has actively shaped the interpretations of the texts often assigning a meaning to classical texts that allows a narrative of independence, cultural sophistication and unbroken mining innovation to be constructed concerning Cornwall. As such this thesis will form part of a rapidly expanding inter-disciplinary interest in our understanding of responses to the Classics and to our conception of the formation of regional historical narrative.
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Marsden, James. "Ancient history in British universities and public life, 1715-1810." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2016. https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:27429822-4a59-4608-ad69-4e6b1c9c4570.
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Over the eighteenth century, ancient history was increasingly read in English, appearing in new forms and interpretations. This reflected the development of history in universities as a subject not merely read, but taught. This teaching took on many forms: serving as a predecessor to other studies, building a knowledge base of case studies for 'higher' subjects, or (increasingly) an independent subject. What ancient history was taught, how was it taught, why was it taught, and what did students go on to use it for? Ancient history as an independent subject had a limited role in the curriculum despite the foundation of Chairs of History in most universities. When it was taught as such, the focus was on explaining modern institutions via ancient comparisons; on the training of statesmen by classical examples; or, more rarely, on demonstrating a particular conception of social development. These uses of history could be seen across both national and subject boundaries. Whilst differences between universities are evident, evidence in the teaching of history suggests the absolute dichotomy between the English and Scottish systems has been overstated. The interesting case of Trinity College Dublin suggests common features across Britain in how 'liberal education' was conceived of and how history fit into it. The practical application of ancient history to the education of statesmen may be seen in the variety of ways it was used in political discourse. This is explored mainly in Parliament, the ultimate destination of the "statesmen" in whose training history was supposed to play a large part, via debates over questions of empire and imperial rights in the second half of the eighteenth century. Superior knowledge of ancient history constituted a rhetorical claim to the twin statuses of gentleman, being classically-educated, and statesman - showing understanding of historical context and precedent.
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Kourniakti, Jessica. "The classical asset : receptions of antiquity under the dictatorship of 21 April in Greece (1967-73)." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2018. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:9309b07f-7f31-44de-986a-c76226b7eb82.
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This thesis stakes out to reframe the debates surrounding a widely criticised chapter in the cultural history of modern Greece: the receptions of the classical past under the Dictatorship of 21 April (also known as 'the dictatorship of the Colonels') during the period 1967 to 1973. Informed by the hermeneutics of classical reception studies, I aim to provide a new perspective on the dictatorship, one that focuses on the contemporaneity of its discursive and visual renderings of antiquity, but which departs from a conceptual framework that is dictated by the master narrative of the Cold War (by the polarisations between Right and Left). The project converges on the ideological discourses, educational policies and the mass spectacles of the Colonels, each of which has been designated as fraught with 'ancestoritis' or 'pseudoclassicism' in the literature. In breaking away from value judgments and notions of misappropriation, it is my intention that the project functions as an exercise in a critical levelling with the dictatorship's multifold classicisms. Concomitantly, I propose that in order to better understand the politics of reception of the Aprilians, which have often seemed impenetrable, it is necessary to branch out into more cross-disciplinary methods of enquiry than those that have been employed in the past. My own approach borrows analytical tools from theories of counter-intelligence, cultural studies, political theory, educational sociology and performance studies. With this exploratory patchwork, the present study hopes to contribute toward opening up a field on which it is possible to examine the dictatorship on its own terms, while taking into account the composite articulations of antiquity with power, upward social mobility, economic development, and entertainment and leisure culture in 1960s Greece.
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Habetzeder, Julia. "Evading Greek models : Three studies on Roman visual culture." Doctoral thesis, Stockholms universitet, Institutionen för arkeologi och antikens kultur, 2012. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-79421.
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For a long time, Roman ideal sculptures have primarily been studied within the tradition of Kopienkritik. Owing to some of the theoretical assumptions tied to this practice, several important aspects of Roman visual culture have been neglected as the overall aim of such research has been to gain new knowledge regarding assumed Classical and Hellenistic models. This thesis is a collection of three studies on Roman ideal sculpture. The articles share three general aims: 1. To show that the practice of Kopienkritik has, so far, not produced convincing interpretations of the sculpture types and motifs discussed. 2. To show that aspects of the methodology tied to the practice of Kopienkritik (thorough examination and comparison of physical forms in sculptures) can, and should, be used to gain insights other than those concerning hypothetical Classical and Hellenistic model images. 3. To present new interpretations of the sculpture types and motifs studied, interpretations which emphasize their role and importance within Roman visual culture. The first article shows that reputed, post-Antique restorations may have an unexpected—and unwanted—impact on the study of ancient sculptures. This is examined by tracing the impact that a restored motif ("Satyrs with cymbals") has had on the study of an ancient sculpture type: the satyr ascribed to the two-figure group "The invitation to the dance". The second article presents and interprets a sculpture type which had previously gone unnoticed—The satyrs of "The Palazzo Massimo-type". The type is interpreted as a variant of "The Marsyas in the forum", a motif that was well known within the Roman cultural context. The third article examines how, and why, two motifs known from Classical models were changed in an eclectic fashion once they had been incorporated into Roman visual culture. The motifs concerned are kalathiskos dancers, which were transformed into Victoriae, and pyrrhic dancers, which were also reinterpreted as mythological figures—the curetes.At the time of the doctoral defense, the following papers were unpublished and had a status as follows: Paper 1: Accepted. Paper 3: Accepted.
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SOWERS, BRIAN P. "Eudocia: The Making of a Homeric Christian." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2008. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1212076542.
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Siedina, Giovanna. "The Reception of Horace in the Courses of Poetics at the Kyiv Mohyla Academy: 17th-First Half of the 18th Century." Thesis, Harvard University, 2014. http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.InstRepos:13065007.
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For the first time, the reception of the poetic legacy of the Latin poet Horace (65 B.C.-8 B.C.) in the poetics courses taught at the Kyiv Mohyla Academy (17th-first half of the 18th century) has become the subject of a wide-ranging research project presented in this dissertation. Quotations from Horace and references to his oeuvre have been divided according to the function they perform in the poetics manuals, the aim of which was to teach pupils how to compose Latin poetry. Three main aspects have been identified: the first consists of theoretical recommendations useful to the would-be poets, which are taken mainly from Horace's Ars poetica. The second aspect is the use of Horace's poetry as a model of word usage, tropes, rhetorical figures, and metrical schemes. Finally, the last important aspect of the reception of Horace is how his works could be imitated and his words or dicta borrowed in the composition of poetry, in which students were expected to exercise as part of the poetics course.
The research draws the conclusion that Horace's legacy was of paramount importance in the manuals analyzed: on the one hand the Mohylanian poetics teachers' tendency (after Renaissance literary theorists and critics) to consider poetry within rhetorical categories rendered Horace's Ars Poetica extremely congenial to them. On the other, Horace's ideas were extrapolated from their original context and at times modified to serve a moralistic and "utilitarian" conception of poetry, which considered the latter as an instrumental science that served the ends of moral philosophy. With its metrical virtuosity and brilliant verbal craftsmanship, Horace's poetry provided an excellent model for the introduction of Christian content.
The analysis of the way pagan authors (Horace first and foremost) were elaborated in a Christian key in the poetry composed by Mohylanian teachers and pupils indicates that education (and with it the assimilation of the Classics) at the KMA was not extraneous to the integration of ancient learning in Christian thinking as it took place in the different confessional schools of contemporary Western Europe.Slavic Languages and Literatures
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Troiani, Sara. "Tra testo e messinscena: Ettore Romagnoli e il teatro greco." Doctoral thesis, Università degli studi di Trento, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/11572/265461.
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The thesis aims to analyse the reception of the ancient Greek drama by the Italian scholar Ettore Romagnoli (1871-1938), considering his critical essays, translations, and theatre performances. The mutual interaction of these three aspects represents the methodological approach to understand how Romagnoli conceived the interpretation of Greek theatre and its dramatic production in the modern age. The thesis consists of three parts. The first one analyses Romagnoli’s ideas on classical studies and the modern translations of ancient Greek poetry within the Italian culture in the early 20th Century and in opposition to the positivist approach in the classical philology and the Neo Idealistic Aesthetics. Furthermore, an exam of the entire work of Romagnoli as stage director is offered, along with the reconstruction of a mainly unknow controversy after his dismissal from the National Institute of Ancient Drama. The second part analyses Romagnoli’s academic studies on the hypothetical performance of ancient tragedy and comedy and the evolution of Greek poetry from music. It also identifies the possible influence of these theories within his own translations and performances. The last part deals with two examples of translations for the stage: the "Agamemnon" (1914) and the "Bacchae" (1922). On the basis of theatre translation studies and thanks to Romagnoli’s editions of the two works, both placed at his archive and library in Rovereto and rich of notes by the translator himself, the analysis attempts to examine the hypothetical performability and speakability of the two texts and whether cuts or modifications were introduced during the stage productions.La ricerca si propone di condurre un esame il più possibile esaustivo dell’opera del grecista Ettore Romagnoli (1871-1938) come esegeta, traduttore e metteur en scène del dramma antico. Grazie all’analisi della reciproca interazione di questi tre aspetti si è tentato di comprendere come il grecista abbia concepito l’interpretazione del teatro greco e ne abbia progettato la ‘reinvenzione’ drammatica. Il lavoro si suddivide in tre parti. Nella prima viene condotta una ricostruzione della carriera di Romagnoli nel contesto storico-culturale di inizio Novecento, analizzando le sue idee sul rinnovamento degli studi classici e sull’aggiornamento delle traduzioni della poesia greca. In questo quadro assumono notevole rilievo le polemiche condotte da Romagnoli in opposizione alle maggiori correnti accademico-culturali dell’epoca: l’estetica crociana e la filologia scientifica. Inoltre, l’analisi prende in esame l’idea di messinscena e le produzioni dirette da Romagnoli a partire dagli spettacoli universitari (1911-1913) fino alle rappresentazioni teatrali svolte a Siracusa e in altri teatri e siti archeologici d’Italia (1914-1937), insieme alla ricostruzione di una terza polemica, definita ‘siracusana’, che coinvolse il grecista in seguito alla sua estromissione dall’Istituto Nazionale del Dramma Antico. La seconda parte prende in considerazione gli studi scientifici e divulgativi di Romagnoli circa la ricostruzione dell’ipotetica performace della tragedia e della commedia di quinto secolo a.C. e l’evoluzione della poesia greca dalla musica, individuando, inoltre, le possibili rielaborazioni di queste teorie all’interno delle traduzioni e degli spettacoli teatrali. Nella terza parte si analizzano le traduzioni di "Agamennone" e "Baccanti" che Romagnoli portò in scena a Siracusa. Si è tentato di valutare, anche sulla base degli studi teorici relativi alla traduzione per il teatro, quanto l’attenzione alla ‘performabilità’ e alla ‘dicibilità’ del testo ne avesse influenzato la composizione oppure se fossero stati introdotti tagli e modifiche in fase di produzione degli spettacoli. Le due edizioni di "Agamennone" (1914) e "Baccanti" (1922) che facevano parte della biblioteca privata di Romagnoli presentano infatti annotazioni dell’autore riconducibili proprio ai suoi allestimenti per gli spettacoli al Teatro greco di Siracusa. Il lavoro ha potuto avvalersi di scritti inediti, articoli di giornale e documenti privati custoditi negli Archivi della Fondazione INDA e presso il Fondo Romagnoli, dal 2016 proprietà dell’Accademia Roveretana degli Agiati e attualmente in catalogazione presso la Biblioteca civica “G. Tartarotti” di Rovereto.
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Currie, Arabella. "Those swans, remember : Graeco-Celtic relations in the work of J.M. Synge." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2017. https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:808752d3-3ee9-4ba3-97ce-9c36c9b7fbb7.
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The Celts, as a distinct and culturally-unified people, are a social construction as much as an historical reality, endowing Celtic antiquity with a certain availability of outline, and a certain scope. When the Celtic world began to be scrutinised in the eighteenth century, its borders could, therefore, be filled with concepts drawn from other antiquities. Classical antiquity, and particularly its Greek variety, was a vital coordinate in this navigation of the past. This thesis explores the history of these Graeco-Celtic negotiations. Using Reinhart Koselleck's theory of asymmetric counterconcepts, it calculates the precise angles of the relation between Greek and Celt in antiquarianism, comparative mythology and folklore, Classics and Celtic Studies, from the early eighteenth and to the late nineteenth centuries. The thesis then puts forward one particular writer as an original and unique interpreter of the tradition of Graeco-Celtic relations, the Irish playwright J.M. Synge. Through archival research, it demonstrates quite how deeply Synge was immersed in this scholarly tradition; in the last years of the nineteenth century and the first years of the twentieth, he followed a deliberate path of reading in antiquarianism, Classics, Celtic Studies, comparative linguistics, mythology and folklore. It then argues that Synge transformed such Graeco-Celtic scholarship into a formidable authorial strategy, in his prose account of his travels on the Aran Islands and his famous, controversial plays. By identifying this strategy, it reveals how Synge's work exploits the continued presence and power of antiquity. Most studies of the reception of Greek antiquity in Irish literature in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries assume a straightforward, inherent connection between Ireland and Greece. This thesis complicates that connection by identifying the powerful history of Graeco-Celtic relations and, particularly, its transformation at the hands of J.M. Synge. This will allow for scrutiny of what actually happens at the crux between Greece and Ireland in literary texts.
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Doyle, Alice. ""The Essence of Greekness": The Parthenon Marbles and the Construction of Cultural Identity." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2018. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/scripps_theses/1209.
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This thesis explores the relationship between the Classical Greek legacy and today’s world by examining the past two hundred years of controversy surrounding Lord Elgin’s removal of the Parthenon Marbles from Athens. Since the Marbles were purchased by the British Museum in 1816, they have become symbols of democratic values and Greek cultural identity. By considering how the Parthenon Marbles are talked about by different people over the years, from art connoisseurs and Romantic poets of the early 19th century to nationalist political activists of the late 20th century, this thesis demonstrates that the fight for the Marbles’ return to Greece is about more than just the sculptures themselves. It is about national heritage and cultural identity.
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Bucknell, Clare. "Poetic genre and economic thought in the long eighteenth century : three case studies." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2014. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:71e97b4d-c009-487c-8efb-fdb71eefa080.
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During the eighteenth century, the dominant rhetorical and explanatory power of civic humanism was gradually challenged by the rise of a new organising language in political economy. Political economic thought permitted radically different descriptions of what laudable private and public behaviour might be: it proposed that self-interest was often more beneficial to society at large than public-mindedness; that luxury had its uses and might not be a threat to liberty and political integrity; that landownership was no particular guarantee of virtue or disinterest; and that there was nothing inherently superior about frugality and self-sufficiency. These new ideas about civil society formed the intellectual basis of a large body of verse written during the long eighteenth century (at mid-century in particular), in which poets engaged enthusiastically with political economic arguments and defences of commercial activity, and celebrated the wealth and plenty of Britain as a modern trading nation. The work of my thesis is to examine a contradiction in the way in which these political economic ideas were handled. Forward-looking and confident poetry on public themes did not develop pioneering forms to suit the modernity of its outlook: instead, poets articulated such themes in verse by appropriating and reframing traditional genres, which in some cases involved engaging with inherited moral values and philosophical preferences entirely at odds with the intellectual material in hand. This inventive kind of generic revision is the central interest of the thesis. It aims to describe a number of problematic meeting points between new political economic thought and handed-down poetic formulae, and it will focus attention on some of the ways in which poets manipulated the forms and tropes they inherited in order to manage – and make the most of – the resulting contradictions.
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Wyche, Rose-Marie. "An archaeology of memory : the 'reinvention' of Roman sarcophagi in Provence during the Middle Ages." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2013. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:bbcae262-8f5f-4e41-8f50-3b24c066d094.
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This thesis is an exercise in the archaeology of memory. It investigates the reuse and ‘reinvention’ of late antique sarcophagi during the Middle Ages in the southern part of Gaul, with a particular emphasis on their reinvention for saints. The region of Provence has a large number of sarcophagi reused for the burial of saints (at least 20), including many of its most important holy figures such as Mary Magdalene, Cassian and Honorat. I shall analyse three groups of sites: the Alyscamps in Arles, Saint-Maximin and Tarascon (the sites connected with Mary Magdalene and her companions) and the monastery of Saint Victor in Marseille. In each case, the sarcophagi became part of an invented narrative created around the imagined antiquity of the site. These narratives varied significantly: some were monastic, others episcopal or biblical, still others heroic: but all were created around antique sarcophagi. Antiquities thus became monumental realms of memory for individuals and events that were thought to have been of significant historical importance in Provence. They formed part of the popular history and collective identity of the region. I will show that their association with saints changed the very function of these objects, as many were no longer seen simply as tombs but also as relics in their own right. I use a variety of sources to help reconstruct this imagined history, particularly saints’ vitae that often provide information about cults, particularly regarding the location of sarcophagi and sometimes even details of miracles that they produced, but also medieval chartae, sermons, and pilgrims’ descriptions of sites and rituals. The results of this study show that sarcophagi were of major importance in the religious history of Provence during the Middle Ages, as they became "proof" of the antiquity of local cults and of the histories based on these legends that the region created for itself. My work contributes to our knowledge of medieval Provence and the history of its collections of sarcophagi.
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Jazdzewska, Katarzyna Anna. "Platonic Receptions in the Second Sophistic." The Ohio State University, 2011. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1304669319.
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Russell, Lucy. "Domesticating Winckelmann : his critical legacy in Italian art scholarship, 1755-1834." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2017. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:8e2d3058-1ae8-46ab-8fab-8f2c9b473860.
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This thesis explores the reception of Johann Joachim Winckelmann in Italian art scholarship, 1755-1834. Winckelmann posed a problem: he was a presence in Italy that could not be ignored, yet the views he expounded were Italophobic and contentious to an Italian readership. In light of this dilemma, the research question asked is how did Italian art scholarship respond to Winckelmann in this period and why did it respond in that way. The core argument advanced is that there were two opposing reactions to Winckelmann, both of which were motivated by nationalism. On the one hand, Italian art scholars presented Winckelmann, his works, and his views as less attractive to an Italian readership than they would otherwise have appeared and, on the other hand, they presented him as more attractive. Through these reactions â termed foreignization and domestication respectively â art scholarship either defended against and ostracized Winckelmann or, when presented as less offensive, welcomed and embraced him amongst Italians. Thus this thesis argues that both reactions demonstrate a nationalistic attempt to portray Winckelmann in the manner most auspicious to the yet-to-be-united peninsula. In order to explore this response to the German scholar, the thesis centres on three media: translations, art literature, and artistic journalism. Both foreignization and domestication are evident throughout the sources analysed, yet there is a predominance of domestication, achieved through a variety of methods. This investigation adds to existing literature by examining the previously overlooked dilemma that Winckelmann posed. Moreover, employing the original conceptual framework of foreignization and domestication allows for a re-evaluation of how the art scholarship of the period engaged with the German scholar. Finally, demonstrating the infiltration of nationalistic sentiment in this period, even extending to Italian art scholarship, this thesis is the first to posit that nationalism played a significant role in Winckelmann's critical legacy.
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Fuchs, Gabriel. "Renaissance Receptions of Ovid's Tristia." The Ohio State University, 2013. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1365755599.
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Feile, Tomes Maya Caterina. "Neo-Latin America : the poetics of the "New World" in early modern epic : studies in José Manuel Peramás's 'De Invento Novo Orbe Inductoque Illuc Christi Sacrificio' (Faenza 1777)." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2018. https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/273742.
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This is an investigation of the epic poetry produced in and about the Ibero-American world during the early modern period (sixteenth to eighteenth centuries) in trilingual perspective: in addition to the more familiar Spanish- and Portuguese-language texts, consideration is also––and, for the purposes of the thesis, above all––given to material in Latin. Latin was the third of the international literary languages of the Iberian imperial world; it is also by far the most neglected, having fallen between the cracks of modern disciplinary boundaries in their current configurations. The thesis seeks to rehabilitate the Latin-language component as a fully-fledged member of the Ibero-American epic tradition, arguing that it demands to be analysed with reference not only to the classical and classicising traditions but to those same themes and concerns––in this case, the centre|periphery binary––as are investigated for counterparts when in Spanish or Portuguese. The crucial difference is that––while the ends may be the same––the means of thematising these issues derive in form and signifying power from interactions with the conceptual vocabularies and frameworks of the Greco-Roman epic tradition. How is America represented and New World space figured––even produced––in a poetic idiom first developed by ancient Mediterranean cultures with no conception whatsoever of the continent of the western hemisphere? At the core is one such long neglected Ibero-American Latin-language epic by a figure who lived across the Iberian imperial world: the 'De Invento Novo Orbe Inductoque Illuc Christi Sacrificio' (Faenza, 1777) by Catalan-born Jesuit José Manuel Peramás. Peramás’s epic––which has never been the subject of a literary-critical study before––is offered as a test case: an exercise in analysing a Latin-language Hispanic epic qua Hispanic epic and setting it into Ibero-American literary-cultural context. This is to be understood in relation to the field of so-called ‘New World poetics’: an at present emergent zone of inquiry within Iberian colonial studies which until now has been developing almost completely without reference to the Latin-language portion of the corpus.
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Marshall, Laura Ann. "Uncharted Territory: Receptions of Philosophy in Apollonius Rhodius’ Argonautica." The Ohio State University, 2017. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu150330016014072.
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Patierno, Carolina. "Miti allo specchio : Ero e Leandro, Piramo e Tisbe : dal testo alla scena, dalle fonti classiche alle riscritture del Seicento italiano." Thesis, Sorbonne université, 2021. https://accesdistant.sorbonne-universite.fr/login?url=https://theses-intra.sorbonne-universite.fr/2021SORUL152.pdf.
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Le présent travail de recherche porte sur la réception des fabulae de Héro et Léandre et de Pyrame et Thisbé dans la littérature italienne du XVIIe siècle, en particulier dans quatre textes différents par genre, style et origine géographique : Gli amori infelici di Leandro ed Ero (1618), l'idylle de Giovanni Capponi, Hero et Leandro (1630) et La Tisbe, respectivement la «Favola maritima » et la «lieta favola» de Francesco Bracciolini, et Il Leandro (1679), le drame musical de Badovero-Pistocchi. La décision de mettre les deux mythes en relation étroite l'un avec l'autre se fonde sur certaines considérations exposées dans des études historico-philologiques faisant autorité sur l'origine du roman et de la nouvelle grecque (Rodhe 1876, Lavagnini 1921, Cataudella 1957) où les deux fabulae sont citées comme des exemples de proto-romans ou de proto-nouvelles en raison de la présence récurrente de topoi propres au roman hellénique. À partir d'une analyse thématique et rhétorique du « patrimoine génétique commun » aux deux mythes ou, mieux, du « noyau hellénique-romanesque » appartenant aux versions classiques de référence (Mus.; Ov., Her.18-19, Ov. Met., IV, 55-166), le parcours d’analyse des réécritures modernes des oeuvres à l’étude suit trois axes principaux : la vérification de l’idée de correspondance entre les deux mythes, déjà présente dans les versions anciennes, médiévales et de la Renaissance, ainsi que l’identification de leurs modalités d’expression dans les textes du XVIIe siècle ; l’analyse des processus de réécriture du mythe au sein des nouvelles métamorphoses baroques et des nouveaux hybrides scéniques, tant en référence à l'interaction entre le «noyau hellénique-romanesque», l'héritage tragique et les influences du genre idyllique et pastoral, qu’en ce qui concerne la relation entre le romanesque hellénique et le romanesque baroque ; la focalisation sur l'aspect herméneutique permettant de comprendre le sens nouveau assumé par le mythe pour les deux couples d'amants : clementia ou sententia ?The present research focuses on the reception of the fabulæ of Hero and Leander and of Pyramus and Thisbe in Seventeenth-century Italian literature, in particular in four texts differing by genre, style and geographical origin: the idyll of Giovanni Capponi, Gli amori infelici di Ero e Leandro (1618); the ‘favola maritima’ Hero e Leandro (1630) and the ‘lieta favola’ La Tisbe by Francesco Bracciolini; and the ‘dramma per musica’ Il Leandro by Badovero-Pistocchi (1679). The decision to place the two myths in close relationship with each other was inspired by some remarks found in authoritative historical-philological studies on the origin of the ancient Greek novel and the Greek novella (Rodhe 1876, Lavagnini 1921, Cataudella 1957) where the two fabulæ are cited as examples of proto-novels for the insistent recurrence in them of topoi proper to the Hellenic novel. Starting from an accurate thematic-rhetorical analysis of the 'common heritage', or rather, of the 'Hellenic-romance nucleus' belonging to the classic versions of reference (Mus.; Ov., Her. 18-19; Ov. Met., IV, 55-166), the course of the research in modern rewritings in question follows three main coordinates: verification of the idea of correspondence between the two myths, already found in the ancient, medieval and Renaissance versions, and identification of the ways in which it is expressed in seventeenth-century texts; analysis of the processes of rewriting the myth within the new Baroque metamorphoses and the new stage hybrids, both in reference to the interaction between the 'Hellenic-romance nucleus', tragic inheritance and influences of the idyllic and pastoral genre, as well as in regard to the relationship between Hellenic and Baroque romance; focus on the hermeneutic aspect within which to read the new meaning assumed by the myth: clementia or sententia for the two couples of lovers?
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Platevoet, Marion. "Médée en échos dans les arts : La réception d’une figure antique, entre tragique et merveilleux, en France et en Italie (1430-1715)." Thesis, Paris 4, 2014. http://www.theses.fr/2014PA040166.
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Le mythe de Médée, reçu par la première modernité comme un paradigme complet depuis la Conquête de la Toison d’or jusqu’à son retour sur le trône de Colchide, compose un prisme à multiples facettes : « Médée-tueenfant » (La Péruse), le personnage légué par la tragédie attique et devenu archétype d’une violence contrenature, y croise Médée magicienne, qui bouleverse le lignage et la ligne du temps, mais aussi la princesse orientale éprise d’un héros civilisateur. Pétrie par la culture chrétienne et admise au répertoire des arts officiels, cette figure ambivalente se rend perméable aux recherches esthétiques et aux débats éthiques des Temps modernes, en vue de l’expression de l’horreur, de l’allégorisation de la gloire, comme dans la représentation des passions.Or, la fondation de l’Ordre de chevalerie de la Toison d’or au duché de Bourgogne, en 1430, jusqu’à la fin de la Guerre de succession d’Espagne où se redessine la carte des puissances européennes, fait de la fable un miroir fictionnel privilégié des jeux de pouvoir entre les grandes dynasties européennes, en tant qu’instrument du discours programmatique du Prince. Dans le paysage culturel d’influences communes que forment les Cités-États de l’Italie et le royaume de France, cette étude montre, par la réunion de l’iconographie de Médée, l’analyse de saprésence dans les imprimés et de ses réécritures à la scène d’après l’antique, comment les échanges entre les arts visuels et les arts du texte oeuvrent à l’établissement d’un motif héroïque paradoxal. Ou comment Médée « devient Médée », renouvelant le serment que lui avait fait jurer Sénèque : « Fiam »The exceptional scope provided by the myth of Medea, which spans from the Conquest of the Golden Fleece to her return to the throne of Colchis, was received in its entirety by the Early Modern Arts and offers a multi-faced prism : Medea “tue-enfant” (La Péruse), the character left by the Ancient ancient Greek tragedy that became an archetypal figure of monstrous violence, crosses the path of the oriental lover of a civilizing hero, and also the enchantress who scatters lineages and timelines. Sculpted by the Christian culture and allowed into the official artistic repertory, this ambivalent figure absorbs the aesthetics and ethical debates of modernity. Indeed, Her Medea’s myth can be used for the expression of horror, allegories of glory, as well as expression of the passions.In addition, from the establishment of the Order of the Golden Fleece, by the Duke of Burgundy in 1430, to the end of the War of the Spanish Succession (which redefined the entire map of major European powers), Medea’s myth becomes one of the most efficient fictional mirrors of the political disputes between the most influential families of Europe, as an instrument of the publication of the Prince programme. Into the landscape of the cultural influences shared by the States of Early Italy and the French Kingdom, this study intends to show, by analysingthe spread of iconography of Medea, her presence in printed material and her classical performance reception and rewriting, how the exchanges between visual and literary productions work towards the definition of a paradoxical heroic standard. Where Medea “becomes Medea” and renews the oath that Seneca made her take: “Fiam”
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O'Dwyer, Maeve Anne. "From Batoni's brush to Canova's chisel : painted and sculpted portraiture at Rome, 1740-1830." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/23623.
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This thesis examines the city of Rome as a primary context of British sociability and portrait identity during the period from 1740 to 1830. Part I considers the work of the portrait painter Pompeo Batoni. It examines the pictorial record of grand tourist sociability at Rome in the 1750s, questioning the complex articulation of nationality among British visitors, and the introduction of overt references to antiquity in the portraiture of Pompeo Batoni. It subsequently interrogates Batoni's use of the partially nude Vatican Ariadne sculpture in five portraits of male grand tourists, dating from Charles John Crowle in 1762, to Thomas William Coke in 1774. Part II of this thesis considers the realities of viewing the sculpted body at Rome, recreating the studios of sculptors Christopher Hewetson and Antonio Canova. It postis the studio space as a locus of sociability for British visitors to Rome, drawing on the feminine gaze in the form of the early nineteenth-century writings of Charlotte Eaton and Lady Murray. The final chapter moves from the focus on British sitters to examine sculpture by Antonio Canova, framing it within a wider discourse of masculinity and propriety. Thte reception of Canova's nude portrait sculpture of Napoleon Bonaparte and Pauline Borghese is considered as indicative of cultural anxieties stemming from new conceptions of gender.
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Erken, Emily Alane. "Constructing the Russian Moral Project through the Classics: Reflections of Pushkin’s Eugene Onegin, 1833-2014." The Ohio State University, 2015. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1449191980.
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Marpeau, Anne-Claire. "Emma entre les lignes : réceptions, lecteurs et lectrices de Madame Bovary de Flaubert." Thesis, Lyon, 2019. http://www.theses.fr/2019LYSEN035/document.
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Le travail porte sur la lecture de Madame Bovary de Flaubert. Menacée d’être proscrite en 1857, elle devient ensuite progressivement prescrite par les programmes de littérature au lycée et à l’université en France et dans les pays anglo-américains. La chercheuse explore le processus de « classicisation » du roman et l’histoire de la réception de son personnage principal par trois communautés interprétatives : les journalistes et critiques contemporain·e·s de Flaubert, les critiques universitaires français et anglo-américain·e·s des années 1960-1980 et des lycéen·ne·s français·e·s en 2016. Le travail interroge donc la constitution des interprétations dominantes ainsi que la dynamique des phénomènes d’identifications au cœur de ces différentes lectures en relation avec l’esthétique de l’auteur. Des problématiques de légitimation structurent en effet ces discours lectoraux et révèlent dans les valeurs qu’ils convoquent la « valence différentielle des sexes », universelle selon Françoise Héritier, qui fait d’une lecture masculine la référence de toute lecture légitime du roman en invalidant des attitudes lectorales perçues comme féminines. Cette situation a pour conséquence un encadrement pédagogique spécifique des interprétations lectorales dans le cadre scolaire dont la thèse interroge les présupposés et les effets sur les lecteurs et lectrices contemporain·e·s.Diverses méthodologies ont été utilisées pour mener la recherche. Les articles de journaux et les textes judiciaires publiés lors du procès de Madame Bovary ont été analysés. Un corpus de travaux structuralistes et post-structuralistes, des théories de la réception et féministes a également été examiné. La chercheuse a par ailleurs eu recours aux techniques de l’explication de texte pour comprendre l’esthétique de Flaubert et la confronter aux réactions des divers lecter·rice·s. Enfin, la chercheuse a mené une enquête de terrain basée sur un questionnaire, des journaux de lecture et des entretiens avec une classe de lycéen·ne·s françaisThis work carries on reading Madame Bovary by Flaubert. Although reading the novel threatened to be prohibited when it was first published in 1857, it progressively became mandatory in French studies in French high schools and at French universities and Anglo-American universities. The thesis explores the « classicisation » process of the novel as well as the reception of its principal character by three interpretive communities: journalists and critics who were Flaubert’s contemporaries, French and Anglo-American academics between the sixties and eighties, and high school French students in 2016. The work thus examines the making of dominant interpretations and the dynamics of identifications at play in relation with the aesthetics of the author. Readers discourses are indeed shaped by self-legitimation purposes and by the universal « differential valency of genders » that Françoise Héritier conceptualized. Masculine reading is thought to be the template of « good » readings of the novel, while all readers’ demeanours perceived as « feminine » are invalidated. This situation results in a specific framing of pedagogical expectations, expectations of which the thesis intents to decipher the assumptions and effects on French high-school readers.To do so, the researcher used a variety of methodologies. She analyzed articles published in newspapers when the book was first published as well as the judiciary speeches and texts written during the trial of Madame Bovary. She also analyzed academic papers and structuralist, post-structuralist, reader-response and feminist theories. She used literary close reading to understand the aesthetics of Flaubert and confront his writing to the reactions of his readers. Finally, she gathered and analyzed empirical data through a survey, reading diaries and interviews with a class of French high school students.This thesis therefore belongs to the field of cultural studies, in the sense that it uses various academic approaches to understand a cultural object and its effects on its readers and because it tries to shift the epistemological viewpoint from which a classic such as Madame Bovary as been examined in Western culture
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Wood, Dafydd Gwilym. "Modernism and the classical tradition." Thesis, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/2152/ETD-UT-2010-12-2193.
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This dissertation seeks to abolish the inherited cliché that the Modernist writers and artists rejected earlier art and literature, particularly that of the classical tradition. In fact, both literature and art of the early 20th century made widespread use of the inherited Greco-Roman tradition in a myriad of ways. Moreover, beginning after the First World War and maturing in the 1920s, a demonstrative Neoclassical “movement” appeared across different types of art and different nations.
A neoclassical or classicizing style or form is inherently malleable, an empty signifier that can, through an artist or writer’s emphasis, point towards any number of meanings. This allowed a classical style to become widespread along with its seeming resiliency as the ordered, traditional bedrock of the West. In the 1930s, however, the fascist parties of Germany, France, and Italy began to appropriate the neoclassical as a state- or party-style because of the ease with which politics could be incorporated into a relatively vacant form. Their systematic use of the classical tradition in large part “tainted” classical subjects and styles, which allowed for the post-World War II institutionalization of the avant garde.
I argue that texts which used the classical tradition could do so in four distinct manners—four types of classicism. Symbolic Classicism controls its classical material by using it only at the level of hollow icon which pregnantly gestures towards antiquity. Traditional Classicism, like an adaptation of a classical narrative particularly in drama, becomes completely dependent on its borrowings. Formal Classicism borrows an inherited, vacant form which can then be injected with Modernity. Finally, Synthetic Classicism necessitates a careful balancing of the classical material, not reducing it to symbolic meaning, but producing a novel narrative or mirroring-effect, that controls its various elements designed into a modern theme or objective.text
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Pang, Colin Cromwell. "Hesiod and the critique of Homer in Quintus of Smyrna's Posthomerica." Thesis, 2019. https://hdl.handle.net/2144/39001.
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While scholars have noticed important allusions to Hesiod in Quintus of Smyrna’s Posthomerica, there is still a need to explain Hesiod’s relevance in a poem that is so overtly Homeric. I argue that an understanding of Hesiod’s reception, especially during the Second Sophistic period, will lead to a deeper appreciation of the Posthomerica and the world that produced it. Hesiodic allusions appear at key moments in the narrative and invite us to see Quintus of Smyrna as reading Homeric epic and ethics through a Hesiodic lens. Rather than read the Posthomerica solely as a work of Homeric emulation, I propose that Quintus of Smyrna relies on Hesiod’s reputation as Homer’s rival to articulate his critique of Homeric poetics and heroism.
Chapter One argues that Quintus of Smyrna reorients his reader’s gaze from Homer to Hesiod right when he seems to ape a Homeric practice, namely the ekphrasis of Achilles’ shield. Chapter Two asserts that Quintus of Smyrna’s use of Hesiod contributes to the Posthomerica’s narrative structure and highlights his revision of the Homeric idea of virtue (arete), such that Iliadic force must be joined with Hesiodic wisdom. Chapter Three examines Quintus of Smyrna’s Hesiodic self-portrayal and argues that the Posthomerica may be read as a telling of the Trojan saga through a Hesiodic lens. Chapter Four discusses Quintus of Smyrna in the context of Hesiodic reception. And Chapter Five places Quintus of Smyrna’s reception of Homer and Hesiod within the broader landscape of Second Sophistic and Late Antique literature, comparing his allusive practices to those of Greek hexameter poets of his era. This study concludes that Quintus of Smyrna’s revision of Homer reflects a trend among some Second Sophistic authors who re-write and critique Homeric narratives. Moreover, his direct and pervasive engagement with the works of Hesiod is unique when compared to his fellow Greek hexameter poets, whose allusions to Hesiod are mediated through a Hellenistic filter. By bridging studies of the Posthomerica and studies in Hesiod’s reception, my work enables us to gain a better understanding of Quintus of Smyrna’s dynamic engagement with his archaic literary tradition.
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Dudley, Robert. "Rhetoric, Roman Values, and the Fall of the Republic in Cicero's Reception of Plato." Diss., 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10161/12884.
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This dissertation seeks to identify what makes Cicero’s approach to politics unique. The author's methodology is to turn to Cicero’s unique interpretation of Plato as the crux of what made his thinking neither Stoic nor Aristotelian nor even Platonic (at least, in the usual sense of the word) but Ciceronian. As the author demonstrates in his reading of Cicero’s correspondences and dialogues during the downward spiral of a decade that ended in the fall of the Republic (that is, from Cicero’s return from exile in 57 BC to Caesar’s crossing of the Rubicon in 49 BC), it is through Cicero's reading of Plato that the former develops his characteristically Ciceronian approach to politics—that is, his appreciation for the tension between the political ideal on the one hand and the reality of human nature on the other as well as the need for rhetoric to fuse a practicable compromise between the two. This triangulation of political ideal, human nature, and rhetoric is developed by Cicero through his dialogues "de Oratore," "de Re publica," and "de Legibus."
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Nunes, Teresa Alexandrina Alves. "Metamorfoses de Pigmalião: o Mito Clássico no Cinema Contemporâneo." Master's thesis, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/10316/97015.
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Dissertação de Mestrado em Estudos Clássicos apresentada à Faculdade de LetrasNas suas Metamorfoses (X.243-297), Ovídio narra o mito de Pigmalião, um escultor de Chipre que cinzelou uma estátua com tal realismo e paixão que o marfim se transformou em carne e a obra de arte numa mulher. Presença assídua no grande ecrã, a história destaca-se das demais adaptações cinematográficas do imaginário greco-romano por acompanhar a Sétima Arte do nascimento à atualidade. Volvidos apenas 3 anos sobre a exibição de La Sortie de l'usine Lumière à Lyon de Louis Lumière, tornou-se na primeira narrativa da Antiguidade Clássica a transformar-se em filme – com realização de Georges Méliès e o título falante de Pygmalion et Galathée – para não mais deixar de o ser: a cada nova cronologia, novas metragens que oscilam entre tratamentos fiéis e recortes alternativos. A contemporaneidade, com a sua predisposição para o “hiper-”, avolumou as abordagens ao fazer do mito motivo estético recorrente para tratar temas como a relação humano-máquina, o vanguardismo tecnológico e a inteligência artificial. Daí resultaram obras como The Stepford Wives (Frank Oz, 2004), Lars and the Real Girl (Craig Gillespie, 2007), Air Doll (Hirokazu Koreeda, 2009), Under the Skin (Jonathan Glazer, 2013), Ex Machina (Alex Garland, 2014), Marjorie Prime (Michael Almereyda, 2017), entre outras. Ciente de que a confluência temporal e a insistência temática superam a possível coincidência, prenunciado uma estreita conexão entre o universo diegético pigmaliónico e as principais coordenadas do mundo atual, esta dissertação centra-se na análise de quatro filmes desse largo conjunto – La Piel que Habito (Pedro Almodóvar, 2011), Ruby Sparks (Jonathan Dayton e Valerie Faris, 2012), Her (Spike Jonze, 2013) e Phantom Thread (Paul Thomas Anderson, 2017) – para deslindar as especificidades de tal vínculo. Não se trata de cunhar um novo género ou movimento artístico à la film noir. O objetivo passa por perceber em que medida a receção do mito clássico pelo cinema contemporâneo assume os contornos de um autêntico tratado de antropologia filosófica. Nele as quatro paredes do ateliê de Pigmalião são eco da experiência solitária da espacialidade urbana recente, a agalmatofilia do cipriota revela-se metáfora da rede massificada de objetos que baliza o quotidiano atual e, por fim, a metamorfose clássica da figura feminina materializa as consequências e reações subjetivas das dinâmicas anteriores.
In his Metamorphoses (X.243-297), Ovid narrates the myth of Pygmalion, a sculptor from Cyprus who carves a statue with such realism and passion that the ivory turns into flesh and the work of art turns into a woman. The tale has been adapted frequently to the big screen, and it stands out from other cinematographic adaptations of the Graeco-Roman imaginary in that it accompanies the Seventh Art from its birth to the present. It became the first narrative of Classical Antiquity to generate a film, in a production directed by Georges Méliès and with the telling title Pygmalion et Galathée, only 3 years after the exhibition of La Sortie de l'Usine Lumière à Lyon (1985) by Louis Lumière. Ever since then it has continued to generate more adaptations: each new period produces ever more different films that oscillate between faithful treatments and more alternative takes on the story. The modern period, always prone to the “hyper-”, multiplied the approaches by making the myth into a recurring aesthetic motif to deal with the themes of the human-machine relationship, technological avant-garde and artificial intelligence. This experimentation has produced such works as The Stepford Wives (Frank Oz, 2004), Lars and the Real Girl (Craig Gillespie, 2007), Air Doll (Hirokazu Koreeda, 2009), Under the Skin (Jonathan Glazer, 2013), Ex Machina (Alex Garland, 2014), Marjorie Prime (Michael Almereyda, 2017), and others. This dissertation intends to study the pygmalionic diegetic universe in connection with the main coordinates of the current world in a way that would explain the chronological frequency and thematic insistence of its film adaptions. It attempts to unravel the specificity of that bond through the analysis of four films – La Piel que Habito (Pedro Almodóvar, 2011), Ruby Sparks (Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris, 2012), Her (Spike Jonze, 2013) and Phantom Thread (Paul Thomas Anderson, 2017). It does not intend to coin a new genre or artistic movement à la film noir. Rather, it aims to understand to what extent the reception of the classical myth by contemporary cinema takes on the contours of an authentic treatise in philosophical anthropology. In this universe, the four walls of Pygmalion's studio echo the lonely experience of recent urban spatiality, the agalmatophilia of the Cypriot sculptor reveals itself as a metaphor for the mass network of objects that marks current daily life and, finally, the classical female metamorphosis embodies the subjective consequences of the previous dynamics.
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Mik, Anna. "Signs of Exclusion. Monsters Inspired by Greek and Roman Mythology as Symbols of Rejected Minorities in Literature, Film, and TV-Series for Children and Young Adults: From Mid-20th Until Early 21st Century." Doctoral thesis, 2021. https://depotuw.ceon.pl/handle/item/3858.
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Capirossi, Arianna. "La ricezione di Seneca tragico tra Quattrocento e Cinquecento: edizioni e volgarizzamenti." Doctoral thesis, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/2158/1154757.
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La tesi presenta un’indagine sulla ricezione del corpus tragico di Seneca in età umanistica, focalizzandosi in particolare sulle edizioni a stampa (incunaboli e cinquecentine fino all'anno 1514) e sui volgarizzamenti. Il primo capitolo riassume brevemente la circolazione delle tragedie senecane nei codici manoscritti durante il Medioevo. Il secondo capitolo contiene il catalogo e la descrizione delle edizioni a stampa delle tragedie dall'editio princeps (Ferrara, ante 17 dicembre 1478) all'edizione a tre commenti a cura di Josse Bade (Parigi, 5 dicembre 1514). Per ciascuna edizione, si analizzano i paratesti (prefazioni, lettere di dedica, commenti, componimenti poetici, illustrazioni) e si ricostruiscono le identità delle personalità che contribuirono alla pubblicazione (editori, commentatori, dedicatari, tipografi). Le prefazioni e le lettere di dedica sono pubblicate in appendice e corredate di traduzione. Una sezione è dedicata ai commenti umanistici di Gellio Bernardino Marmitta, Daniele Caetani e Josse Bade. Il terzo capitolo propone l’analisi testuale dei cinque volgarizzamenti delle tragedie senecane prodotti fino all'anno 1497. Il primo è contenuto nel poemetto incompiuto «Ippolito e Fedra» di Sinibaldo da Perugia (ante 1384). Il secondo è un volgarizzamento anonimo in prosa di area napoletana (prima metà del Quattrocento). Il terzo è il volgarizzamento in versi di Evangelista Fossa dell'«Agamemnon», stampato a Venezia il 28 gennaio 1497. Il quarto è il volgarizzamento in versi di Pizio da Montevarchi dell'«Hercules furens», inedito, conservato nel manoscritto 106 della Biblioteca Classense di Ravenna, del 1497-1498. Il quinto è il volgarizzamento in versi dell'«Hippolytus», ancora di Pizio da Montevarchi, stampato a Venezia il 2 ottobre 1497. Nella tesi, si pubblicano i testi degli ultimi tre volgarizzamenti individuati.
This thesis presents a survey of the reception of Seneca's tragedies between Quattrocento and Cinquecento, focusing on printed editions (incunabula and cinquecentine published until 1514) and vernacular translations. The first chapter summarizes the circulation of Seneca's tragedies in manuscripts during the Middle Ages. The second chapter contains the catalogue and the description of the printed editions of the tragedies from the editio princeps (Ferrara, before 17 December 1478) to the three-comment edition edited by Josse Bade (Paris, 5 December 1514). For each edition, I analyzed the paratexts (prefaces, dedicatory letters, comments, poems, illustrations) and I reconstructed the identities of the personalities who contributed to the publication (editors, commentators, dedicatees, printers). Prefaces and dedicatory letters are published in the appendices with an Italian translation. A section is devoted to the humanistic commentaries by Gellio Bernardino Marmitta, Daniele Caetani and Josse Bade. In the third chapter I focused on the five vernacular translations of Seneca's tragedies produced until 1497. The first is contained in the unfinished poem "Ippolito e Fedra" by Sinibaldo da Perugia (before 1384). The second is an anonymous prose translation produced in the Neapolitan area during the first half of the fifteenth century. The third is the verse translation by Evangelista Fossa of the "Agamemnon", printed in Venice on 28 January 1497. The fourth is the verse translation by Pizio da Montevarchi of the "Hercules furens", preserved in the manuscript 106 of the Classense Library of Ravenna (1497-1498). The fifth is the verse translation of the "Hippolytus", again by Pizio da Montevarchi, printed in Venice on 2 October 1497. In my thesis, I edited the texts of the last three vernacular translations.