This volume focuses on the nineteen elegiac poems of the appendix tibulliana, a series of littleknown latin elegies transmitted as book 3 of the corpus tibullianum. Sulpicia lepidina was the wife of flavius cerialis, prefect of the ninth cohort of batavians, stationed at vindolanda in roman britain about the turn of the 1st century ad. Gruppe, smith and creekmore take when evaluating sulpicias poetry, while. It wont be anywhere near the label of literary commentary, but it will.
Translation and commentary by anne mahoney 2000 author. The poetry of sulpica opensiuc southern illinois university. Reliable information about the coronavirus covid19 is available from the world health organization current situation, international travel. Explanatory notes and a glossary elucidate context and describe key names, places, and events. I will then reflect upon how an intertextual approach to the eleven sulpicia elegies in tibullus book 3 may allow readers of these. I ran through the street full of shrouded red cloaks. Her father was servius sulpicius rufus, consul in 51 bc. Her six love elegies were published with the work of albius tibullus in his tibullian corpus. Laurel fulkersons new commentary on the third book of tibullus, called the appendix tibulliana and sometimes the corpus tibullianum, offers a thoughtful and effective approach to the poetry of sulpicia, our earliest and most significant female poet of classical latin. A literary commentary on the elegies of the appendix tibulliana laurel fulkerson pseudepigrapha latina. An introduction by julia haig gaisser provides the necessary historical and social background to the poets life and works.
From martials sulpicia, we have preserved a twoline fragment in the scholia to juvenal and a dubiously attributed seventyline satiric hexameter poem concerning domitians expulsion of rome. A literary commentary i just found out that the first of two upcoming commentaries on book 3 of the corpus tibullianum will finally be coming out, namely this november from laurel fulkerson entitled a literary commentary on the elegies of the appendix tibulliana, published by oxford university press. Didyme slipped her hand underneath my shirt, not in a sensual way, but so that she could slowly stroke her thumb up and down on my bare skin in a comforting way. She remains true to elegiac traditions by using a greek name for her lover cerinthus, and like other elegists she berates him for his infidelity. Richards roman love poetry selections from catullus, tibullus, sulpicia, propertius, and. The books first chapter examines the commentary on the tibullan corpus 1475 of the italian humanist bernardinus cyllenius. Latin lyric and elegiac poetry, first published almost 25 years ago, offered students accurate and poetic translations of poems from the sudden flowering of lyric and elegy in rome at the end of the republic and in the first decades of the augustan principate. Search for library items search for lists search for contacts search for a library. The gens sulpicia was one of the most ancient patrician families at rome, and produced a succession of distinguished men, from the foundation of the republic to the imperial period. Sulpicia asked, ignoring the other twos commentary. Sulpicia 1, elegiac poet oxford classical dictionary.
Holzbergs approach to the sulpicia poems requires that he consider them a continuous linear sequence, with. Sulpicia dryantilla, daughter of sulpicius pollio and wife of roman usurper regalianus during the crisis of the third century. Commentaries 1475 1990 by skole, mathilde, skoie, mathilde isbn. Defying fate chapter 1, a twilight fanfic fanfiction. It should be noted that this sulpicia is not the same poet as the elegist sulpicia, six of whose poems are preserved in the third book of tibullus. Oclcs webjunction has pulled together information and resources to assist library staff as they consider how to handle coronavirus.
Commentaries 14751990 oup 2002 that discusses not the poetry itself but the most important commentaries written about it since the renaissance, and that uses the authorial controversy as a lens for talking about more general issues. Fulkersons commentary does much to place sulpicia precisely. Within census records, you can often find information like name of household members, ages, birthplaces, residences, and occupations. This paper provides a running commentary on the poems normally attributed to sulpicia in tibullus iii, focusing on bookstructure and gender as well as elegiac conventions. Full text of the satires of juvenal, persius, sulpicia and. Fulkersons commentary does much to place sulpicia precisely where she should be situated, amongst the other poets of the. Full text of the satires of juvenal, persius, sulpicia, and lucilius. In the fifteenth century, as skoie notes, classical texts were frequently used as rhetorical models or readallegorically, if necessaryas a source of moral exempla. Sulpicias poems have received critical attention from many scholars within the last five centuries as the poems authorship and literary credibility. The reader approaching the amores for the first time should be alert to at least three features of the poetry. A literary commentary on the elegies of the appendix tibulliana. Cornutus and sulpicia poems of a new phase of the poets. A poetical translation of the elegies of tibullus and of. However, formatting rules can vary widely between applications and fields of interest or study.
Accedit sulpiciae satira by juvenal at the best online ebook storage. Now updated in this second edition, the volume has been reedited with both revised and new translations and an updated commentary and. Mathilde skoie discusses a selection of commentaries from the renaissance to the present day, combining the history of classical scholarship, philology, feminist literary theory, and reception theory. Fund for the improvement of postsecondary education provided support for entering this text. Indeed, sulpicia writes about cerinthus exactly as a male elegist would write about his. Cyllenius normalizes sulpicia, creating what skoie calls a sulpicia togata. Sulpicia, according to pontano why is sulpicia a woman. Sulpicias syntax the classical quarterly cambridge core. Through close study of seven commentaries, mathilde skoie traces the reception of corpus tibullianum 3. Sulpicia is the only female poet from ancient rome whose work still survives today. Laurel fulkersons new commentary on the third book of tibullus, called the. Carmina sulpiciae translation and commentary by anne mahoney. Provided to youtube by the orchard enterprises catullus poems 76, 11 john f.
As such, she is one of the only female poets in ancient rome whose work still survives today. Changing the past should be impossible, but her dreams proved otherwise. Mathilde skoie discusses a selection of commentaries from the renaissance to the present day, combining the history of classical scholarhip, philology, feminist literary theory, and reception theory. This article seeks to explore a specific moment in the history of the reception of sulpicia. The complete poems of tibullus by albius tibullus, lygdamus. I got the idea when listening to avril lavignes girlfriend. Description of text a new translation of the poems of albius tibullus, and the poems of, and about, sulpicia from the messalla collection. With the original text, and notes critical and explanatory.
The first member of the gens who obtained the consulship was servius sulpicius camerinus cornutus, in 500 bc, only nine years after the expulsion of the tarquins, and the last of the name who appears on the consular. Offers the first commentary on all of the elegies in this series in a century and adumbrates some possible scenarios for the collection of the poems into a single corpus. Full text of the satires of juvenal, persius, sulpicia and lucilius see other formats. There are letters between cicero and sulpicius in book 4 of ciceros collected letters. Carmina sulpiciae translation and commentary by anne. Sulpicia 1, daughter or perhaps granddaughter of servius sulpicius rufus, niece and ward of m.
Sulpicias home, it is small wonder she chose to write elegiac poetry. One of the most interesting things ive read over the last week is a book by mathilde skoie reading sulpicia. Sulpicia s six poems are love elegies, that is, they are written in elegiac couplets and they are about love. Numerous and frequentlyupdated resource results are available from this search. Includes the poems of sulpicia and lygdamus, transmitted with the text of tibullus and formerly ascribed to him. Upon arriving at the conclusion that sulpicias work is, in fact, artistically impressive, modern scholars say there lacked an indepth look at the literary devices that the poet used. They record her love affair with a young man whom she.
Although it is accepted that they are not the work of tibullus himself their actual authorship remains unclear and has been hotly disputed. Sulpicia s dressed for you, great mars, on your calends. As one of my primary research interests for the sulpicia poems is sulpicias literary afterlife vs. This slip of a girl, as kirby flower smith liked to call her, is the sole female latin writer of the classical period whose works have come. Use census records and voter lists to see where families with the sulpicia praetextata surname lived. Sulpicia s poems have received critical attention from many scholars within the last five centuries as the poems authorship and literary credibility are often contested. Context for sulpicia sulpicia is the only female poet from ancient rome whose work still survives today. A poetical translation of the elegies of tibullus and of the poems of sulpicia. Reading sulpicia mathilde skoie oxford university press. Meanwhile, my own book is taking a different turn, with my interests and concentration morphing it into something weird and potentially wonderful. Sulpicia is believed by some to have been the author of six short poems some 40 lines in all published in the corpus of albius tibulluss poetry poems 3.
In the six remarkable elegidia transmitted in the tibullan corpus as 3. Sulpicia s home, it is small wonder she chose to write elegiac poetry. The figure of the poetlover that ovid presents in the amores is also a new departure in the western literary tradition, worth attention in its own right. This paper provides a running commentary on the poems normally attributed to sulpicia in tibullus iii, focusing on book structure and gender as well as elegiac conventions. Interest in the sulpicia elegies has revived over the past two decades, and reading sulpicia offers a fresh look at the tradition of scholarship that the poems have inspired. Thoughts on book 3 of the corpus tibullianum, cj 94 199899 169191. Scaligers sixteenthcentury commentary deals with the notes on sulpicia written by the great joseph scaliger 15401609 in his commentary on catullus, propertius, and tibullus, the socalled castigationes 1577. Pronunciation of sulpicia with 2 audio pronunciations and more for sulpicia. Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders. Tibullus book 3 and sulpicia 1 20045 oxford scholarship. Twilight was supposed to be a book, not her new reality. Sulpicia s poems are numbers 17 in book 3, or 711 in book 4.
Sulpicia sewlpihsheeah was the daughter of servius sulpicius rufus and probably valeria, the sister of her guardian, marcus valerius messalla corvinus, the patron of the poet albius tibullus. Sulpicia memmia, one of the three wives of alexander severus. The garland are the immediately preceding poems, 3. Jul 10, 2014 as one of my primary research interests for the sulpicia poems is sulpicia s literary afterlife vs. Focusing on the representation of the augustan poet sulpicia in commentaries, this work investigates the interpretative strategies involved in the reading of an ancient text. There has been a recent upsurge in interest on this subject and scholars finally recognize sulpicias poetic talents. A literary commentary on the elegies of the appendix. It is therefore striking to notice the complete absence of references to the elegiac repertoire in smiths commentary on the sulpicia poems. A new chapter chapter 20, a twilight fanfic fanfiction. This work may be freely reproduced, stored, and transmitted, electronically or otherwise, for any noncommercial purpose. Earlier, in 62, sulpicius had prosecuted lucius murena for bribery in the consular elections. Sulpicias six poems are love elegies, that is, they are written in elegiac couplets and they are about love. Sulpicia 1, daughter or perhaps granddaughter of servius sulpicius rufus, niece and.
Fulkersons commentary does not deal with the 211line hexameter poem, the panegyric to messalla tib 3. While the third book took shape as a collection probably in the 2nd century ce, by the 3rd century, it was added to the two books of tibullus poetry, and the poems themselves date from the augustan period into the flavian era. Full text of the satires of juvenal, persius, sulpicia. She is the first person known to have received a birthday party invitation. Sulpicias poems are numbers 17 in book 3, or 711 in book 4.
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