We are, in short, readers who must be shaped precisely by what is acer - Persius' Satires - or, in Persius' pedagogical metaphor, the sharp (or swift) edge of the potter's wheel (conveniently for Persius, a broad semantic field - bitter ...
Disiecti membra poetae: The rhetoric of dismemberment in Neronian poetry. In Innovations of antiquity. Edited by Ralph Hexter and Daniel Selden, 391-419. New York: Routledge, Chapman and Hall. Asserts a correlation between the ...
This volume brings together a number of significant studies by authors from different disciplines and countries, on literary, philosophical, medical and political aspects of ancient anger from Homer until the Roman Imperial Period.
In Britain she was, as we have seen, the subject of Jenny Diski's novel, and in the United States her own work Apology for the Woman Writing and Other Works appeared in 2002 as part of Chicago University Press's series “The Other Voice ...
... Octavia', in id. (ed.), The Tragedy of Nero's Wife: Studies on the Octavia Praetexta = Prudentia, 35. 1 (2003), 1–12. The play may have been written very soon after the end of Nero's reign; see P. Kragelund, Prophecy, Populism, and ...