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Micaela W. Janan CV

Professor of Classical Studies
Classical Studies
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Scholarly Works - Journal articles


'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

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

Refashioning Hercules: Propertius 4.9

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

The Politics of Interpretation: Judging the Hermaphrodite

Journal article American Philological Association, Boston, MA · 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