Richard Bentley famously called Prudentius ‘Christianorum Maro et Flaccus’. Recent work has explored the extent and detail of Prudentius’ Virgilian intertextuality, most notably in the allegorical epic the Psychomachia, but also in many others of his works. Horatian lyric is laid under contribution...

The Ovidian Sublime. Antiquity and After

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Philip Hardie (2022)

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This article makes the case that the sublime plays a more important part in the poetry of Ovid, and its reception, than is generally acknowledged. It surveys Ovid's use of the word sublimis, from the early amatory to the exilic poetry, and argues that it often connotes sublimity as an aesthetic and...

How Prudentian is the Aeneid?

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Philip Hardie (2017)

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This essay focuses on the feature of the Psychomachia that is supposed to mark a decisive break from the tradition of classical epic, the fact that it is an allegorical epic, and ask how Virgilian, in reality, its allegorical themes and procedures may be. As a study of intertextuality, the paper fur...

12. Virgilianisms and Ovidianisms in the English Renaissance

Livres et chapitres d'ouvrages

Philip Hardie (2015)

Livres et chapitres d'ouvrages

In terms of the genre of epic, the landscape of the English Renaissance, like that of Augustan Rome, is dominated by two poems. In Rome: the Aeneid, emerging as the classic of Rome’s national literature in the same years that the victorious Octavian was solidifying into Augustus, the first princeps;...

Approximative Similes in Ovid. Incest and Doubling

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Philip Hardie (2004)

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This paper is about the pleasures and dangers of getting too close, about a desire to elide difference that operates on both a sexual and a textual plane. My subject is Ovid at his most seriously flirtatious, for this desire is at once the source of typically playful – and, as we say, Ovidian – effe...

Amores picti et scriptae puellae chez Properce et Ovide : questions d’esthétique et regards sur la λεπτότης callimachéenne

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Florence Klein (2010)

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Dans cet article, je propose de voir dans l’œuvre de Properce une invitation à rapprocher deux passages des Métamorphoses d’Ovide : il s’agit de l’évocation d’Adonis – si beau dès sa naissance qu’il ressemble à ces tableaux qui représentent les jeunes Amours – et de l’épisode de Pygmalion, l’artiste...

Le poète paysan des Géorgiques : un homme de culture

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Maëlys Blandenet (2007)

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Blandenet Maëlys. Le poète paysan des Géorgiques : un homme de culture. In: Bulletin de l'Association Guillaume Budé, n°2,2007. pp. 123-146.

Nyctegresiae Romanae. Exégèse homérique et retractatio de la Dolonie chez Virgile et Ovide

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Jean-Christophe Jolivet (2004)

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Lorsqu’Enée contemple les représentations de la guerre de Troie sur les murs du temple de Junon, lors de son arrivée à Carthage, il voit la Dolonie, l’exploit de Diomède ramenant au camp achéen les chevaux de Rhésos ; à côté de cette représentation, le jeune Troïle, tué par Achille, est emporté sur...