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Lauren Ginsberg

Lauren Ginsberg

Associate Professor of Classical Studies
Classical Studies
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Great expectations: Wordplay as warfare in caesar's bellvm civile

Journal Article Classical Quarterly · May 7, 2023 This article argues that Caesar puns on the cognomen of Pompey the Great through his use of the adjective magnus at least twice in his Bellum Civile. In each instance, the wordplay contributes to (1) evoking the memory of Pompey's past triumphs and (2) exp ... Full text Cite

After 69 CE - Writing Civil War in Flavian Rome

Book · December 17, 2018 This book provides an important new chapter in the study of Roman civil war literature by investigating the multi-faceted Flavian response to this persistent and prominent theme. ... Cite

VT ET HOSTEM AMAREM: JOCASTA AND THE POETICS OF CIVIL WAR IN SENECA'S PHOENISSAE

Journal Article Ramus · December 2017 Over the past two decades, scholars have devoted increasing attention to Roman civil war literature and its poetics, from the vocabulary of nefas, paradox, and hyperbole to the pervasive imagery of the state as a body vio ... Full text Cite

Staging Memory, Staging Strife Empire and Civil War in the Octavia

Book · December 15, 2016 This work offers a new reading of the Octavia as a staging ground in the memory wars surrounding Nero's fall. ... Cite

Don’t Stand So Close to Me: Antigone’s Pietas in Seneca’s Phoenissae

Journal Article TAPA · March 2015 summary: Seneca’s Phoenissae imbues Antigone’s canonical pietas with elegiac associations. Her appeals to her father recycle familiar topoi from amatory poetry, especially the amator ’s pledge to follow ( sequor ) the beloved anywher ... Full text Cite

Wars More Than Civil: Memories of Pompey and Caesar in the Octavia

Journal Article American Journal of Philology · December 2013 As the Octavia replays a moment in Rome’s recent history—the struggle to see which Caesar would outlast the rest—its characters simultaneously replay a crucial struggle from the Julio-Claudians’ rise to power: the civil war betwee ... Full text Cite

Ingensas an Etymological Pun in theOctavia

Journal Article Classical Philology · October 2011 Full text Cite