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Micaela W. Janan

Micaela W. Janan CV

Professor of Classical Studies
Classical Studies
mjanan@duke.edu
Box 90103, Durham, NC 27708-0103
233 Allen Bldg, Durham, NC 27708
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Selected Publications

'In the name of the father': Ovid's Theban law

Journal Article · October 31, 2023 When Ovid turns to epic in the Metamorphoses, he eschews the genre's preoccupation with either founding or defending polities;1 instead, he constructs a largely 'pastoral' epic of sinister bent.2 There would seem to be no place for Rome in a landscape wher ... Full text Cite

The Father's Tragedy: Assessing Paternity in Statius, Silvae 2.1

Journal Article TAPA: Transactions of the American Philological Association · June 1, 2020 Silvae 2.1 mourns Glaucias, libertus-foster child of Atedius Melior. Statius’s allusions to Vergil’s Aeneid examine fatherhood as a model for understanding other hierarchical relationships. Statius probes Vergil’s implied justification of Augustus’s rule a ... Full text Open Access Link to item Cite

Reflections in a Serpent's Eye: Thebes in Ovid's Metamorphoses

Book · February 1, 2010 Featured Publication Ovid's extraordinary story of Thebes' founding and bloody unravelling spans Books 2 and 3 of his epic poem, the Metamorphoses. His bizarre refractions of the well-ordered community mirror Ovid's own Rome and the mythohistory of its origins, most particular ... Full text Cite

Review of OVID'S LOVERS: DESIRE, DIFFERENCE AND THE POETIC IMAGINATION

Other PHOENIX-THE JOURNAL OF THE CLASSICAL ASSOCIATION OF CANADA · 2009 Link to item Cite

Narcissus on the text: Psychoanalysis, exegesis, ethics

Journal Article Phoenix · September 1, 2007 Bringing to bear the concepts of Lou Andreas-Salomé,Julia Kristeva, and Jacques Lacan upon Ovid's Narcissus tale (Met 3.339-510) helps us see how the infatuated boy's dénouement makes the irrational intrude upon rational discourse in such a way as to rock ... Cite

Was the Aeneid Augustan propaganda?

Journal Article History in Dispute · March 2005 Cite

Review of The Roman Mistress by Maria Wyke

Other Classical Journal · 2004 Cite

Delusion and Desire in the Fatherland: The Law in Ovid’s Thebes

Conference American Philological Association, San Francisco, CA · 2004 Cite

'That Way Madness lies': The Outrageous Father of Ovid’s Thebes

Conference Classical Association, Manchester, UK, · 2004 Cite

A Snake in the Glass: Pentheus Fashions Thebes (Met. 3.531-63)

Conference Classical Association of the Middle West and South, Austin, TX · 2002 Cite

The Politics of Desire: Propertius IV

Book · 2001 Featured Publication Cite

The Parallax View: Arethusa Writes (to) Lycotas

Conference American Philological Association, Dallas, TX · 1999 Cite

Refashioning Hercules: Propertius 4.9

Journal Article Helios: a journal devoted to critical and methodological studies of classical culture, literature, and society · 1998 Cite

Speaking as (the Ghost of) a Woman: Acanthis as the 'Other Voice' of Prop. 4.5

Conference American Philological Association, Washington, D.C. · 1998 Cite

Arethusa to Lycotas: The Metaphysics of Decadence

Conference Classical Association of the Middle West and South, Charlottesville, VA · 1998 Cite

Infidelities: (Un)making Belief in Propertius 4.8 (the Lanuvium Elegy)

Conference American Philological Association, New York, NY · 1996 Cite

The Phenomenology of the Spirits: The Cornelia Elegy (Propertius

Conference American Philological Association, San Diego, CA · 1995 Cite

Review of Torture and Truth, by Page Dubois

Other Ancient Philosophy · 1994 Cite

Hercules in Rome: Propertius 4.9

Conference Classical Association of the Middle West and South, Southern Section, Chapel Hill, NC · 1994 Cite

Changing the Subject: Hercules and the Interpretation of Catullus 68

Conference Classical Association of the Middle West and South, Atlanta, GA · 1994 Cite

'Shadow of a Doubt': Framing the Subject in Propertius' Gallus-poems

Conference American Philological Association, Washington, D.C. · 1993 Cite

Review of 100 Years of Homosexuality, by David Halperin

Other Women’s Classical Caucus Newsletter · 1991 Cite

The Politics of Interpretation: Judging the Hermaphrodite

Journal Article American Philological Association, Boston, MA · 1989 Cite

`Stop Making Sense': Drawing the Line(s) in Catullus 68

Conference Utah Academy of Arts and Sciences, Logan, UT · 1989 Cite

The Book of Good Love? Design Versus Desire in Metamorphoses 10

Journal Article Ramus · 1988 Much attention has been paid recently to the role of individual narrators within the Metamorphoses. Whereas it was once considered adequate to attribute the characteristics of the poem solely to Ovid as narrator, a number ... Full text Cite

Desire and Narrative in Catullus 11 and 51

Journal Article Utah Academy of Arts and Sciences, St. George, UT · 1988 Cite

New Twine in Old Shuttles: Women Weaving Rebellion in Metamorphoses IV

Conference Philological Association of the Pacific Coast, Santa Cruz, CA · 1985 Cite

The Pen and the Phallus, or, `Eros by Any Other Name...'

Conference Philological Association of the Pacific Coast, Santa Barbara, CA · 1983 Cite