https://www.peren-revues.fr/eugesta/1523 Numéros fr ven., 19 avril 2024 13:51:24 +0200 jeu., 27 nov. 2025 16:12:48 +0100 https://www.peren-revues.fr/eugesta/1523 0 https://www.peren-revues.fr/eugesta/1524 Migration ist ein wiederkehrendes Thema in den Komödien des Plautus: Viele Figuren haben im Laufe ihrer Biographie, die in den Stücken erzählt oder angedeutet wird, ihren Wohnort gewechselt. Neben den vielen in die Sklaverei verkauften Personen zeigt sich dies vor allem an den Figuren der Fremden, die im Laufe eines Stücks eintreffen und für weitere Komplikationen innerhalb der Handlung sorgen. In diesem Beitrag wird anhand der Rolle des "Fremden" (peregrinus) untersucht, warum diese Figur in den Komödien des Plautus so häufig vorkommt, welche Funktion sie übernimmt und wie sich anhand dieser Figur die Strukturierung der Gesellschaft bei Plautus in Bezug auf Mobilität und Migration untersuchen lässt. ven., 19 avril 2024 15:16:03 +0200 https://www.peren-revues.fr/eugesta/1524 https://www.peren-revues.fr/eugesta/1536 In this article, I provide a close examination of Ovid’s Amores 2.8 that focuses on how the poet-lover’s use of persuasory rhetoric enables him to bully and silence the subaltern Cypassis. My discussion challenges Patricia Watson’s claim (in “Ovid Amores 2.7 and 8: The Disingenuous Defence”) that this poem has comparably less forensic qualities and rhetorical elements than its counterpart (2.7). I argue that forensic and rhetorical elements permeate the text and become increasingly blatant as the poem proceeds. By employing declamatory and oratorical techniques, the poet-lover weaponises his rhetorical education, a privilege afforded to him by his status as an elite Roman male, in order to intimidate, manipulate, and ultimately blackmail Cypassis, the uneducated, defenceless, and mute subaltern. I suggest that it is a mischaracterisation to refer to this approach as a ‘seduction’; it is a calculated exertion of power that enacts gendered violence. lun., 27 mai 2024 11:58:46 +0200 https://www.peren-revues.fr/eugesta/1536 https://www.peren-revues.fr/eugesta/1543 Il saggio riconsidera alcuni esempi della ricezione della figura, persona e poetica di Saffo nella letteratura latina attraverso l’uso di teorie queer. I casi di studio esaminati, che afferiscono alla produzione poetica di epoca tardo repubblicana e della prima età imperiale (Catullo, Virgilio, Orazio, Ovidio e Marziale), dimostrano come la presenza di Saffo contribuisca alla messa in discussione di identità e ruoli di genere tradizionali. Nel contempo, le risonanze saffiche nel contesto letterario romano comportano una destabilizzazione e riformulazione di norme, canoni e generi letterari, facendo sì che alla presenza di contenuti queer (che si esprimono principalmente come identità di genere e orientamenti sessuali non normativi) si accompagnino forme poetiche ibride e fluide. mar., 16 juil. 2024 16:18:05 +0200 https://www.peren-revues.fr/eugesta/1543 https://www.peren-revues.fr/eugesta/1553 La storia personale e la vicenda politica di Giulia Maggiore e di Giulia Minore, rispettivamente figlia e nipote dell’imperatore Augusto, riflette la stessa contraddizione che è all’origine della creazione dell’impero. Il principato, regime fondamentalmente autocratico, viene presentato da Augusto alla pubblica opinione come un ritorno alla repubblica. Parimenti in età augustea, la propaganda e la legislazione insistono sui valori legati alla maternità e al ruolo domestico delle donne. Invece, le donne, a partire proprio da quelle che appartengono alla domus imperiale, assumono un ruolo politico sempre più rilevante che le fonti letterarie tendono a oscurare, relegandolo ai soliti stereotipi associati a un uso improprio della sessualità. Emblematica di questa realtà è la narrazione delle vicende umane e politiche, oltre che delle due Giulie, di Claudia Livia Giulia e di Valeria Messalina, rispettivamente nuora di Tiberio e moglie di Claudio. lun., 26 août 2024 16:54:33 +0200 https://www.peren-revues.fr/eugesta/1553 https://www.peren-revues.fr/eugesta/1560 Ancient sources suggest that Tarpeia, a historical-mythological figure whose date varied between the Romulean period and the Gallic Wars, had a tomb on the Capitoline Hill; however, these sources have not been seen as credible by modern scholarship. This article contextualizes Dionysius of Halicarnassus’ discussion of Tarpeia’s tomb in both the Roman Antiquities and modern studies of Roman religion, and suggests the manner in which honors would have been paid to her. mar., 01 oct. 2024 15:44:54 +0200 https://www.peren-revues.fr/eugesta/1560 https://www.peren-revues.fr/eugesta/1567 The Greco-Roman ancient medical authors who discuss women’s pleasure in sex are often misinterpreted as talking about the female orgasm. In fact, their interest is ultimately in a woman’s desire for and pleasure during sex (ὄρεξις, ἐπιθυμία, ἡδονή), not in orgasm as a climactic end to the sexual act for women. Accordingly, I argue here that the ancient medical discussion of a woman’s gratification in sex (with men) focuses on a “process” of pleasure, and not on a culmination in the orgasm. A comparison with literary depictions of women’s pleasure illuminates the emphasis on a process-oriented understanding of female sexual enjoyment. This contribution considers these ancient texts, medical and literary, in light of the work of biologist Elisabeth A. Lloyd, who contradicts long-standing assumptions that orgasm in women evolved as a reproductive necessity. Shifting our thinking about the ancient discourse in response to modern scientific research can provide a helpful basis for reframing current studies in sexology and the history of medicine. Many of these rely on translations of Greek and Latin texts that use the vocabulary of orgasm, when this is not the concept presented in the ancient works. mar., 22 oct. 2024 17:23:50 +0200 https://www.peren-revues.fr/eugesta/1567 https://www.peren-revues.fr/eugesta/1573 This paper explores the language of birth in Plato’s dialogues via the conceptual framework of natality, with a focus on Plato’s interest in the question: to what are humans committed on the basis of their status as born? I argue that natality provides a powerful conceptual tool for understanding Plato’s ethical theorizing, as vividly demonstrated in the instructions to the about-to-be-born provided in a passage from the Timaeus (41d4-42e4), and conclude with some broader considerations about the relationship between alienated mortality (the denial of the unavoidability of death), alienated natality (the denial of the contingency of birth), and the potentially liberatory aspects of untethering birth-giving and identity. lun., 18 nov. 2024 12:16:52 +0100 https://www.peren-revues.fr/eugesta/1573 https://www.peren-revues.fr/eugesta/1583 The male dominance of Classical Greek society in politics and the arts leaves women normally defined as of little consequence relative to their male contemporaries. In addition, Ancient Greek male authors present women as defining themselves as inconsequential, a point we should question. This paper reviews epigraphic texts written by or for women such as public inscriptions, epitaphs and private messages to the gods. The public texts demonstrate that some women took control of their public image through their public texts. Although private texts take up themes concerned with the traditional role of women as mothers, wives or lovers, they also provide evidence for female agency in addressing these concerns. lun., 02 déc. 2024 16:57:04 +0100 https://www.peren-revues.fr/eugesta/1583