https://www.peren-revues.fr/eugesta/1224 Numéros fr jeu., 08 déc. 2022 12:33:02 +0100 jeu., 08 déc. 2022 12:35:47 +0100 https://www.peren-revues.fr/eugesta/1224 0 https://www.peren-revues.fr/eugesta/1225 Praxilla of Sicyon (floruit ca. 450 BCE) records Adonis’ response to a question posed to him in the Underworld. He is asked by his companions below what he misses most from his former life on earth. His answer is preserved by Zenobius (early 2nd c. CE), and includes the sun, moon, and stars as well as apples, pears, and cucumbers. Zenobius condemns Adonis’ response, saying, “anyone who lists cucumbers and the rest alongside sun and moon can only be regarded as feeble-minded”. Using comparative material from both Greco-Roman and ancient Jewish sources, this paper considers what we know about the cultural context of cucumbers in the ancient Mediterranean and argues for a shift in blame from Adonis to Praxilla herself for composing such “nonsense”. jeu., 08 déc. 2022 14:07:48 +0100 https://www.peren-revues.fr/eugesta/1225 https://www.peren-revues.fr/eugesta/1235 In griechischer und römischer Literatur konnte die Zuschreibung diplomatischen Ungeschicks an politische AkteurInnen Stilmittel der Negativporträtierung sein. Die Häufung der Zuschreibungen von undiplomatischem Benehmen an als „barbarisch“ oder „tyrannisch“ konnotierte Personen mahnt zur kritischen Skepsis. Der Topos wurde auch auf männliche und weibliche Mitglieder der argeadischen Monarchie übertragen, da diese von griechischen und römischen Autoren häufig als „barbarisch“ oder „tyrannisch“ beschrieben wurde. Im Folgenden wird dies anhand von zwei Fallbeispielen gezeigt: den diplomatischen Interaktionen von Eurydike, Gattin von Amyntas III. und Mutter Philipps II., und von Olympias, Frau Philipps II. und Mutter Alexanders III., zwei besonders prominent hervortretenden Repräsentantinnen ihrer Dynastie. Die Identifikation des Topos eines Mangels an Diplomatie als literarisches Stilmittel ermöglicht eine noch kritischere Sicht auf die literarische Porträtierung dieser beiden Agentinnen ihres Hauses. Ihre Beteiligung an diplomatischen Aufgaben wird somit der negativen Deutung entzogen, die sie oft in Antike (und Moderne) als vermeintliche „Einmischung“ oder Zeichen von „Herrschsucht“ erfuhren. Dies mag exemplarisch für die Behandlung anderer makedonischer royal women sein. jeu., 08 déc. 2022 14:23:36 +0100 https://www.peren-revues.fr/eugesta/1235 https://www.peren-revues.fr/eugesta/1245 I frammenti attribuiti ad una donna medico di nome Metrodora sono particolarmente preziosi in quanto alcuni di essi riguardano la cosmetica antica, della quale purtroppo non ci sono rimaste molte testimonianze. Discuteremo qui quindi alcuni passi dall’opera perduta di Metrodora riguardanti la cosmetica, non prima di aver delineato, seppure a grandi linee, la personalità e il contesto culturale dell’autrice. Lo studio qui proposto infatti anticipa alcune considerazioni che verranno più ampiamente discusse nell’edizione critica da noi curata e di prossima pubblicazione. jeu., 08 déc. 2022 14:35:32 +0100 https://www.peren-revues.fr/eugesta/1245 https://www.peren-revues.fr/eugesta/1254 Pax y concordia fueron dos conceptos, virtudes y deidades que representaron distintas facetas de la paz en la política y mentalidad romana. Su valor, significado y representación visual evolucionaron según las circunstancias, necesidades e intereses en el periodo republicano y el Alto Imperio. Ambas se representaron con forma y cuerpo de mujer, y compartieron símbolos, pero adquirieron matices diferentes en su significado, ámbitos de proyección, así como en los posibles agentes para su logro. Desde una perspectiva de género este trabajo pone el foco en la relación desigual de ambos conceptos con mujeres y hombres, y en cómo las distintas funciones y roles de género determinaron que la concordia formase parte de las posibilidades de agencia de las mujeres, mientras que el logro de la pax se proyectó como potestad de los varones. En este artículo se analizan fuentes escritas, epigráficas, iconográficas y numismáticas para ofrecer una visión en conjunto de cómo las mujeres se proyectaron en el espacio público y político desde el papel de género que era esperable de ellas, con unas funciones muy vinculadas al mantenimiento de la concordia. jeu., 08 déc. 2022 14:54:38 +0100 https://www.peren-revues.fr/eugesta/1254 https://www.peren-revues.fr/eugesta/1264 This paper explores Horace’s engagement with Latin love elegy through the motif of magic in Epodes 5 and 17. I argue that Horace’s Canidia and the elegiac puellae are constructed in tandem as part of an ongoing dialogue between Horace’s Epodes and early love elegy. Horace literalises the elegiac lovers’ metaphorical characterisation of their mistress’ beauty as magically enchanting to construct Canidia as a witch who controls her lovers with erotic magic. Through Canidia and the theme of magic in the Epodes, Horace uses elegy to define his iambic poetics and to demonstrate that love elegy is central to his development of the Roman iambic tradition. jeu., 08 déc. 2022 15:24:33 +0100 https://www.peren-revues.fr/eugesta/1264 https://www.peren-revues.fr/eugesta/1269 This article lays out several feminist strategies for translating Ovid’s Metamorphoses, arguing that these enable translators to clear away the patriarchal bias that has influenced previous translations of this epic. Using the Callisto episode as a case study, I show how major English translations obscure sexual assault, mitigate the criminality of those who perpetrate rape, and assign modern gender expectations and stereotypes to the past. Through careful close reading, feminist translators can question longstanding assumptions about the text that have been inherited from one translator and scholar to the next. Feminist translation, moreover, illuminates how our own contemporary assumptions were not necessarily shared by Ovid and his culture. jeu., 08 déc. 2022 15:43:31 +0100 https://www.peren-revues.fr/eugesta/1269 https://www.peren-revues.fr/eugesta/1273 Cet article analyse l’usage qui est fait par les auteurs anciens de l’onomastique de deux femmes impériales : Livie et Julie, respectivement épouse et fille d’Auguste. Si l’onomastique féminine des femmes impériales se complexifie au fil des dynasties, force est de constater que la plupart des auteurs anciens ne recourent qu’à un seul nom pour les désigner. Reflètent-ils en cela les usages en vigueur parmi les aristocrates romaines, ou encore le discours impérial délivré au sujet des femmes de la domus Augusta ? Il est clair que l’usage de l’onomastique féminine n’est jamais neutre dans leurs écrits, tout particulièrement lorsqu’il s’agit d’évoquer le pouvoir de certaines femmes impériales. À ce titre, étudier l’usage de l’onomastique fluctuante de la première impératrice et de celle, fort simple, de sa belle-fille, révèle la reconnaissance, la critique ou encore l’oubli de ce même pouvoir. jeu., 08 déc. 2022 16:12:42 +0100 https://www.peren-revues.fr/eugesta/1273 https://www.peren-revues.fr/eugesta/1280 This article provides a global and focused survey of the rich surviving evidence for the classical Greek and Roman clitoris (or nymph). It starts with the surviving anatomical descriptions, with the clitoris in its healthy, according to nature condition, and explores the different attitudes and understandings that were articulated in this context. Then it moves to the clitoris contrary to nature, examining the pathologies delineated in the medical tradition and their cures within their wider cultural and political settings. These therapies included clitoridectomy, the surgical removal of the nymph, putting the spotlight on questions of female sexuality and its control in the Roman world. There is a mismatch between the medical accounts of the clitoris in health and disease it is argued, driven in part by particular Roman imperial concerns about gender and sexuality, represented by the transgressive figure of the tribas. jeu., 08 déc. 2022 16:47:22 +0100 https://www.peren-revues.fr/eugesta/1280 https://www.peren-revues.fr/eugesta/1287 This article explores Fiona Benson’s reception of Ovid in Vertigo & Ghost, examining the way in which she probes the horror and violence of narratives that have entertained and enchanted readers of the Metamorphoses for centuries. I contextualise Benson’s treatment of Ovid by situating it within recent trends of Ovidian reception, that are alert to the dark and disturbing undercurrents of his accounts of pursuit and sexual aggression. jeu., 08 déc. 2022 16:59:01 +0100 https://www.peren-revues.fr/eugesta/1287