https://www.peren-revues.fr/eugesta/667 Entrées d’index fr 0 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 jeu., 19 déc. 2024 18:14:00 +0100 https://www.peren-revues.fr/eugesta/1536 https://www.peren-revues.fr/eugesta/666 The paper is a contribution to the growing interest in the influence of Philodemus’ poetry upon Latin poetry, in particular elegy. It explores the socio-cultural and literary-historical implications of Philodemus’ epigram AP 5.132 (Sider 12), which concerns the speaker’s infatuation with an Oscan girl called Flora. This poem, short though it is, reveals a poet interacting with the linguistic and cultural diversity of Campania of the late Republic. It is well known that, in its description of the girl’s physical body, this epigram influenced Am. 1.5, the poem in which Ovid first introduces his girlfriend Corinna. What I shall also argue is that Philodemus’ play in his epigram with the dynamic multiculturalism of Campania transfers in Ovid’s Amores and Fasti to a fuller exploration of the crosscultural resonances in the name of the elegiac woman, including the goddess Flora, who was worshipped in Oscan territory as well as at Rome. mar., 14 juin 2022 09:09:16 +0200 jeu., 07 déc. 2023 16:58:21 +0100 https://www.peren-revues.fr/eugesta/666