Metamorphic Reflections: Essays presented to Ben Hijmans at his 75th birthday

by R van der Paardt (Editor), M Zimmerman (Editor)

Overview

This Festschrift honours the Dutch Latinist Ben Hijmans. Besides his studies on Seneca philosophus and Ovid, Hijmans published numerous articles on Apuleius' works, both that author's philosophical and rhetorical oeuvre, and his novel, The Golden Ass or Metamorphoses. In 1973 he initiated the research project Groningen Commentaries on Apuleius, and until his retirement he was editor-in-chief of the series of commentaries issued from that research project. This collection of essays contains a number of important new and original articles on Apuleius' Metamorphoses (by Ken Dowden, Roger Beck, Ellen Finkelpearl, Maeve O'Brien), on the reception of the Latin novel (Harrison), and on Apuleius' rhetorical work (Vincent Hunink). The book presents original research on Ovid's Metamorphoses (Paula James) and its reception (Van der Paardt). Other contributions testify to the broader interests of Ben Hijmans and deal with general cultural aspects (Jan Pieter Guepin), art history (Henk van Os, Marietje d'Hane), or with the art of translating (John Gahan, Hero Hokwerda), with archaeology and iconography (Roman gems: Marianne Kleibrink; opus sectile panels at Kenchreai: Hector Williams). There is an impressive article on the religious and iconographic backgrounds of Horace's carmen saeculare (Steven Hijmans). Ben Hijmans' fascination with, and insight in mythical motifs is reflected not only in Paula James's and Van der Paardt's articles (on Pyramus and Thisbe and Actaeon respectively), but also in contributions by Rory Egan (Narcissus) and Danielle van Mal-Maeder (on Seneca's mythical tragedies and their transformation in Roman Declamation). John Wortley discusses developments in Boeotia in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages, Hugh Mason writes on the 'reality' of the apples in Sappho's poetry, and Fokke Akkerman discusses some treatises by Benedictus de Spinoza which illustrate his position on democracy.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9789042915046
Publisher:	Peeters Publishing
Publication date:	12/31/2004
Pages:	345
Product dimensions:	6.37(w) x 9.55(h) x 0.61(d)

Table of Contents

	Table of Contents	v
	Preface	ix
	What Lies Beneath: Fluid Subtexts in Ovid's Metamorphoses	1
	Four portraits of Actaeon	21
	Is there a Night Side to Greek Religion? In defence of festivity	41
	Metamorphosing Ovid, Seneca, and Aeschylus: Ted Hughes and the Art of Translation	69
	Vijf 'Romeinse' gedichten van Kavafis. Vertalingen	81
	Villes Detruites. Troie et Rotterdam - Laocoon et Zadkine	97
	Image Worship and Metamorphosis	107
	'ut Graeci vocant'. Writing Greek in a Latin Context: Observations on the (re)production of Aulus Gellius in the 9th Century	113
	Erasmus in Athene. Democratie in wisselende gedaanten	129
	Narcissus Transformed: Rationalized Myth in Plato's Phaedrus	143
	Thelyphron the 'Weak-minded' or What's in a Name?	161
	The Persona in Apuleius' Florida	175
	Seneque le Tragique et les Grandes Declamations du Pseudo-Quintilien. Poetique d'une metamorphose	189
	Sol and Luna in the Carmen Saeculare: an Iconographic Perspective	201
	Metamorphosis and Roman Engraved Gems	225
	Sappho's Apples	243
	Boeotia in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages	255
	Two Victorian Versions of the Roman Novel	265
	Getting the Measure of Apuleius's Metamorphoses	279
	The Ships on the Kenchreai Glass Panels	297
	Lucius and the Sundial: A hidden chronotopic template in Metamorphoses 11	309
	The Ends of the Metamorphoses: Apuleius Met. 11.26.4-11.30	319
	Tabula Gratulatoria	343