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1. Apostol, Ricardo Andres. Rome's Bucolic Landscapes: Place, Prophecy, and Power in Aeneid VIII.

Degree: PhD, Classical Studies, 2009, University of Michigan

URL: http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/62329

► Vergil’s Aeneid is a key text for the study of the Augustan regime’s justification of its unprecedented power. In the crucial settings of the bestowal… (more)

▼ Vergil’s Aeneid is a key text for the study of the Augustan regime’s justification of its unprecedented power. In the crucial settings of the bestowal of Aeneas’ Shield and the early site of Rome, book VIII gives evidence of a deep concern with the historical and religious foundations of that power. This dissertation traces the numerous and clearly signposted bucolic allusions in the text to reconstruct their role as interpretive guides pointing the way to a pro-Augustan political message. These bucolic allusions occur in four pivotal episodes of Aeneid VIII, all entailing descriptions of places: the Hercules and Cacus episode, the conferral of the Shield of Aeneas, the myth of the Golden Age and Saturn’s reign, and Evander’s tour of the site of Rome. The current study uses these allusions to reinterpret these episodes and to provide an overarching theory of Vergil’s use in book VIII of allusion to Theocritus and his own Eclogues, as well as such related texts as the Georgics, with special attention to the rustic deities Faunus, Silvanus, and Pan. This reinterpretation reveals a text that grounds its support for Roman power on claims of vatic insight into the historical process, and which appeals to the contemporary Roman reader to look at Rome after the civil wars and see the gleaming city as proof of its historical promise. At the same time, it critiques a rival rationalist tradition as unsatisfying and unavailable to the majority of people. What emerges is a complex dialogue between faith and reason that stretches back to encompass all of Vergil’s oeuvre. The concern with Rome’s roots and prophetic insight suggests the importance of using traditional terms to justify Augustan ideology. Vergil’s use of the bucolic as a bridge between the epic past and contemporary Rome also suggests new avenues of generic interpretation. Finally, the text’s construction of the Roman reader poses the question of intended audience, raising the possibility that the Aeneid was designed to draw support from a newly empowered, educated class: the Roman equites. Advisors/Committee Members: Reed, Joseph D. (committee member), Hughes%2C%20Benjamin%22%29&pagesize-30">Acosta-Hughes, Benjamin (committee member), Amrine, Frederick R. (committee member), Scodel, Ruth S. (committee member).

Subjects/Keywords: Vergil; Aeneid VIII; Bucolic; Bakhtin; Genre; Vates; Classical Studies; Humanities

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Apostol, R. A. (2009). Rome's Bucolic Landscapes: Place, Prophecy, and Power in Aeneid VIII. (Doctoral Dissertation). University of Michigan. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/62329

Chicago Manual of Style (16^th Edition):

Apostol, Ricardo Andres. “Rome's Bucolic Landscapes: Place, Prophecy, and Power in Aeneid VIII.” 2009. Doctoral Dissertation, University of Michigan. Accessed April 16, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/62329.

MLA Handbook (7^th Edition):

Apostol, Ricardo Andres. “Rome's Bucolic Landscapes: Place, Prophecy, and Power in Aeneid VIII.” 2009. Web. 16 Apr 2021.

Vancouver:

Apostol RA. Rome's Bucolic Landscapes: Place, Prophecy, and Power in Aeneid VIII. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. University of Michigan; 2009. [cited 2021 Apr 16]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/62329.

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Apostol RA. Rome's Bucolic Landscapes: Place, Prophecy, and Power in Aeneid VIII. [Doctoral Dissertation]. University of Michigan; 2009. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/62329

2. Regan, Amanda R. The Geography of Kingship in Apollonius of Rhodes.

Degree: PhD, Classical Studies, 2009, University of Michigan

URL: http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/62361

► This dissertation explores how, through adaptations of the familiar Homeric motifs of hospitality, supplication, and the figure of the basileus, Apollonius designed the world of… (more)

▼ This dissertation explores how, through adaptations of the familiar Homeric motifs of hospitality, supplication, and the figure of the basileus, Apollonius designed the world of his Argonautica as a political map of the Hellenistic Mediterranean. Chapter 1 investigates the implications of Apollonian hospitality scenes. Read against their Homeric models and one another, and considered against the geographic backdrop of the poem, these scenes reveal Jason’s world as a geographic mirror of the early Hellenistic kingdoms, one which reflects the Ptolemies as different from (and superior to) the kings in Greece and the Near East. Chapter 2 evaluates the models for and characteristics of the Argonautica’s kings. In doing so, it argues that Apollonius drew more upon contemporary political models for his kings than he did upon their previous poetic incarnations: though he of course relied upon earlier poets’ portrayals of the six men called basileus in the poem, the variations he works upon those portrayals align the kings with either specific Hellenistic monarchs or else specific types of Hellenistic kingship. The way those kings interact with Jason and his men echoes the way kings dealt with cities, and therefore not only casts the kings as poetic avatars of Hellenistic monarchs but the Argonauts as a Hellenistic polis on the move. Once again, the Ptolemies emerge in a favorable light: the king fashioned as a pre-figuring of Ptolemy Soter is the only one to emerge from the poem with his kingdom intact and his position secure. The final chapter addresses Apollonian supplication scenes. As is true for the hospitality scenes, the distance between Apollonian supplications and their Homeric models is filled by an aspect of the Hellenistic world: in this case, the specific forms of distrust that dominated the early Hellenistic kingdoms. Once again, the Ptolemies outpace their rival kings: they alone are associated with the king who tempers that distrust with cautious wisdom. When considered in light of the previous chapters, this final chapter suggests that the Argonautica is not simply a foundation story for Alexandria, but rather a significant contribution to the Alexandrian poetic discourse on kingship and kings. Advisors/Committee Members: Hughes%2C%20Benjamin%22%29&pagesize-30">Acosta-Hughes, Benjamin (committee member), Moyer, Ian S. (committee member), Potter, David S. (committee member), Scodel, Ruth S. (committee member).

Subjects/Keywords: Hellenistic Poetry; Classical Studies; Humanities

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APA (6^th Edition):

Regan, A. R. (2009). The Geography of Kingship in Apollonius of Rhodes. (Doctoral Dissertation). University of Michigan. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/62361

Chicago Manual of Style (16^th Edition):

Regan, Amanda R. “The Geography of Kingship in Apollonius of Rhodes.” 2009. Doctoral Dissertation, University of Michigan. Accessed April 16, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/62361.

MLA Handbook (7^th Edition):

Regan, Amanda R. “The Geography of Kingship in Apollonius of Rhodes.” 2009. Web. 16 Apr 2021.

Vancouver:

Regan AR. The Geography of Kingship in Apollonius of Rhodes. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. University of Michigan; 2009. [cited 2021 Apr 16]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/62361.

Council of Science Editors:

Regan AR. The Geography of Kingship in Apollonius of Rhodes. [Doctoral Dissertation]. University of Michigan; 2009. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/62361

3. Rowland, Jonathan Milton. Footnotes to Sappho: An Examination of the Female Poets of Greece.

Degree: PhD, Classical Studies, 2012, University of Michigan

URL: http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/93985

► In Footnotes to Sappho I explore the poetry of three of the most influential poets of the Hellenistic period: Erinna, Anyte, and Nossis. Very little… (more)

▼ In Footnotes to Sappho I explore the poetry of three of the most influential poets of the Hellenistic period: Erinna, Anyte, and Nossis. Very little of their works survived to the present day; consequently these poets are largely ignored by the scholarly community. Those scholars who do study the female poets tend to understand them as women first and poets second, assuming that their works can inform our understanding of the lives of women in the ancient world. In this dissertation I argue that this understanding impedes our ability to interpret their poetry and attempt to correct this by reading their poems as poems rather than as biographical evidence. Each chapter provides an examination of one author's life and works, beginning with a discussion of ancient testimonia. In the first chapter, "Erinna," I examine the poetry of the fourth-century BCE poet Erinna, whose life, homeland, and date are shrouded in mystery, and even the number of her works is disputed. In both sections, one on her epigrams and one on her famous yet fragmentary work, the Distaff, I examine the ways in which Erinna establishes two oppositions: movement/stasis and performance/text. The next chapter, "Anyte," examines the ways in which Anyte takes advantage of new developments in poetry in order to expand the possibilities for epigrammatic poetry. Anyte exploits the separation of epigram from its inscriptional beginnings by composing poems that never would have been inscribed, such as epitaphs for insects. I argue that many of her epigrams are interrelated and share themes and motifs and that this is evidence of an author (perhaps the first) who wrote poems specifically for a collection. The final chapter, "Nossis," explores the twelve epigrams of the poet Nossis, focusing on her use of polemic to reject men from her potential readership. This rejection is tongue-in-cheek, as an author cannot control who reads a text. Nossis' poetry also illustrates the lack of performance in epigram by configuring a series of poems as a partheneion. Like Erinna and Anyte before her, Nossis is her own poet and deserves to be read as such. Advisors/Committee Members: Scodel, Ruth S. (committee member), Prins, Yopie (committee member), Seo, Joanne Mira (committee member), Hughes%2C%20Benjamin%22%29&pagesize-30">Acosta-Hughes, Benjamin (committee member).

Subjects/Keywords: Ancient Greek Poetry; Classical Studies; Humanities

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Rowland, J. M. (2012). Footnotes to Sappho: An Examination of the Female Poets of Greece. (Doctoral Dissertation). University of Michigan. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/93985

Chicago Manual of Style (16^th Edition):

Rowland, Jonathan Milton. “Footnotes to Sappho: An Examination of the Female Poets of Greece.” 2012. Doctoral Dissertation, University of Michigan. Accessed April 16, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/93985.

MLA Handbook (7^th Edition):

Rowland, Jonathan Milton. “Footnotes to Sappho: An Examination of the Female Poets of Greece.” 2012. Web. 16 Apr 2021.

Vancouver:

Rowland JM. Footnotes to Sappho: An Examination of the Female Poets of Greece. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. University of Michigan; 2012. [cited 2021 Apr 16]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/93985.

Council of Science Editors:

Rowland JM. Footnotes to Sappho: An Examination of the Female Poets of Greece. [Doctoral Dissertation]. University of Michigan; 2012. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/93985

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4. Schroeder, Chad Matthew. Hesiod in the Hellenistic imagination.

Degree: PhD, Social Sciences, 2006, University of Michigan

URL: http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/126285

► The figure of Hesiod and his poetry exercised a tremendous influence on Hellenistic writers. As scholarly topic, mythical figure, and source of poetic and artistic… (more)

▼ The figure of Hesiod and his poetry exercised a tremendous influence on Hellenistic writers. As scholarly topic, mythical figure, and source of poetic and artistic inspiration, his impact over this later era is wide-ranging. Hellenistic writers inherited a literary tradition in which Hesiod was one of Greece's earliest poets, and their literature's first authorial voice. Although Hesiod's poems were short compared with Homer's epics, there were a large number of them: in the Hellenistic opinion, they might have totaled as many as fifteen. Hellenistic writers were also aware of a rich biographical tradition about the poet himself. He had included details about his life in his poetry, and there were stories which grew up later about poetic competitions, his death, and a second, rejuvenated life. From the beginning, Hesiod's poems were always read and his reputation as one of Greece's greatest poets was secure. The fame of Hesiod began early, and his status, only increased in the Hellenistic period. In my dissertation I examine three central aspects of Hesiod in the Hellenistic imagination: scholarship, biography, and literary model. My dissertation represents a break with the usual treatments of Hesiod's poetry in the Hellenistic period by combining the study of three central aspects. I believe that they share an important and fundamental interconnection, and that to treat only one of them overlooks how varied and far-reaching Hesiod's impact truly was. I begin with a chapter that surveys the Hellenistic scholarship on Hesiod, which is supplemented by the appendix to the dissertation. The appendix contains the first-ever collection of the fragments of Hellenistic scholarship on Hesiod. My next chapter examines the reception and refashioning of his biography in the Hellenistic era. I begin with a summary of his pre-Hellenistic bios, and then discuss Hellenistic poems and epigrams that reworked his life's story. In the next two chapters, I change focus to discuss some ways Hesiod's Theogony and Works and Days were used as a literary model in the Hellenistic period. Advisors/Committee Members: Scodel, Ruth S. (advisor), Hughes%2C%20Benjamin%20B.%22%29&pagesize-30">Acosta-Hughes, Benjamin B. (advisor).

Subjects/Keywords: Greece; Hellenistic; Hesiod; Imagination

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APA (6^th Edition):

Schroeder, C. M. (2006). Hesiod in the Hellenistic imagination. (Doctoral Dissertation). University of Michigan. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/126285

Chicago Manual of Style (16^th Edition):

Schroeder, Chad Matthew. “Hesiod in the Hellenistic imagination.” 2006. Doctoral Dissertation, University of Michigan. Accessed April 16, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/126285.

MLA Handbook (7^th Edition):

Schroeder, Chad Matthew. “Hesiod in the Hellenistic imagination.” 2006. Web. 16 Apr 2021.

Vancouver:

Schroeder CM. Hesiod in the Hellenistic imagination. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. University of Michigan; 2006. [cited 2021 Apr 16]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/126285.

Council of Science Editors:

Schroeder CM. Hesiod in the Hellenistic imagination. [Doctoral Dissertation]. University of Michigan; 2006. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/126285

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