https://www.peren-revues.fr/eugesta/318 Entrées d’index fr 0 https://www.peren-revues.fr/eugesta/1631 The elegiac love affair and mistress portrayed by the first century BCE Roman poet Propertius was a more important influence on the sixteenth century poet-courtesan Veronica Franco than has previously been credited. Scholarship has tended to focus on Franco’s reception of Ovid’s works, particularly the Heroides, but Propertius provides an important forerunner for Franco’s speaking subject in his main female character, Cynthia. Although she is an elegiac beloved, Cynthia’s speeches consistently undermine the elegiac worldview, especially the characterization of the lover as suffering and faithful and the beloved as fickle and cruel. Closer attention to Franco’s use of Propertius, through the example of two of her poems, Capitoli 17 and 20, provides a richer understanding of the intertextual relationship between them. At the same time, Franco’s work can add to our understanding of Propertius, as she is one of the earliest readers of Propertius to take his disruption of gender politics and fidelity seriously. ven., 31 oct. 2025 12:13:19 +0100 jeu., 27 nov. 2025 15:42:01 +0100 https://www.peren-revues.fr/eugesta/1631 https://www.peren-revues.fr/eugesta/308 This paper reconsiders the narrative of his own death delivered by the shade of Deiphobus in Aeneid 6 (509-530). This episode is usually compared to Agamemnon’s encounter with Odysseus in the first nekuia of the Odyssey, but I argue that the underworld meeting of Agamemnon and Amphimedon in the second nekuia (Odyssey 24.121-190) is also an important intertextual model. Deiphobus and Amphimedon both accuse a woman – Helen, Penelope – of conspiring with their sexual rivals – Menelaus, Odysseus – to bring about their deaths. Yet comparison of Amphimedon’s and Deiphobus’ narratives highlights the misleading and self-aggrandizing character of their rhetoric and raises questions about how women are represented by male narrators and by the epic tradition more broadly. This paper suggests that Deiphobus’ narrative works together with other competing and contradictory views of Helen within the Aeneid in order to fracture the epic tradition’s univocal representation of her – and women more generally – as casus belli. mar., 14 juin 2022 08:38:22 +0200 jeu., 23 mars 2023 09:48:34 +0100 https://www.peren-revues.fr/eugesta/308 https://www.peren-revues.fr/eugesta/659 This paper argues for a dense and systematic intertextual relationship between Ovid’s Ars amatoria Book 1 and Terence’s Eunuchus. The attitude of the praeceptor Amoris toward meretrices, the target women of the Ars, is found in all the male characters of the play, from neuter pronouns (quod) used for them to resentment at the expenses required for their company to the belief that rape of meretrices is justified. The praeceptor’s lessons on deception (Ars 1.631-658) and rape (659-706) draws heavily on the rape plot of Eunuchus. From fallite fallentes (645) to the exemplum of the rape of Deidamia by Achilles (681-704), this passage takes plot and language from Chaerea, the young adulescens who rapes Pamphila, the foster sister of the meretrix Thais. The painting of Jupiter and Danae in Pamphila’s bedroom offers a model for the Deidamia-Achilles tale, and Achilles’ role as a model for the male pupil of the Ars further justify rape of women who have no physical, social, or legal recourse. Through his persistent intertextual engagement with Terence’s play, Ovid exposes male privilege and resentment toward meretrices. mar., 14 juin 2022 09:09:02 +0200 lun., 20 mars 2023 09:19:59 +0100 https://www.peren-revues.fr/eugesta/659 https://www.peren-revues.fr/eugesta/766 This paper analyses the homoerotic aspect of Propertius 1.20 and its presentation of the myth of Hylas, the lost beloved of Hercules. It argues that Propertius reacts to the portrait of ‘Greek love’ that is found in the two surviving lengthy versions of this myth in Apollonius’ Argonautica and Theocritus’ Idylls, increasing the homoerotic ambience of the myth and encouraging his readers to look back to his models for traces of the approach that he himself takes. It also interrogates Propertius’ domestication of his Greek models’ narratives in a contemporary Roman and particularly elegiac context, and argues that the poem is better integrated into Propertius’ elegiac universe than is often acknowledged. mar., 14 juin 2022 09:13:20 +0200 jeu., 09 mars 2023 16:27:00 +0100 https://www.peren-revues.fr/eugesta/766