Barren of Beauty

Barren of Beauty: Impoverished and Marginalized Aesthetics in Latin Literature

Edited by Lorenza Bennardo and Rebecca Moorman

Forthcoming with University of Toronto Press

Table of Contents

Introduction: Latin’s Poverty and Impoverished Aesthetics (Lorenza Bennardo and Rebecca Moorman)

I. Disrupting the Literary Canon
1. Sulpiciae Elegidia: Female-authored Epigram in Ancient Rome (Alison Keith)
2. Scribbling, Schooling, Losing Control: A Note on Virgil’s Troilus and Metapoetry (Andrew McClellan)
3. Sublime Delusions: Bathos and Sublimity in Statius’ Thebaid (T.J. Bolt)
4. The aesthetic foolsgoldstandard in Petronius (Erik Gunderson)

II. Feeling Impoverishment
5. Incustoditis et apertis, Lesbia: Martial’s Lesbia, Cuckolding Catullus, and Impoverishing the Intertext (David Sutton)
6. Rome’s Tired Subjects: Exhaustion in the Aeneid (James Uden)
7. An Unhomely Homecoming: The Aesthetics of the Uncanny in Seneca’s Agamemnon (Elaine Sanderson)

III. The Socioeconomics of Aesthetic Impoverishment
8. gula est: Appropriating the aesthetics of illness in Martial’s Epigrams (Kate Stevens)
9. Sympathy for a Cannibal: Renegotiating Roman Values with the Aesthetics of Disgust in Pseudo-Quintilian’s Declamatio maior 12 (Nicola Hömke)
10. The Way and its poor: bareness of life from Seneca to Jerome (Alex Dressler)

IV. Impoverishment and the Senses
11. Venuste Incohata: Catullus and the Charm of Incompletion (Emilia Barbiero)
12. Ovid’s Disembodied Embodiment of Hunger in Metamorphoses 8 (Mariapia Pietropaolo)
13. Thomas Couture’s The Romans of the Decadence and the Unmooring of Rome’s Decline (Basil Dufallo)