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  • Chapter 4 - Singing in Cicero

  • Hannah Čulík-Baird, Boston University
  • Book:
    Cicero and the Early Latin Poets
    Published online:
    21 April 2022
    Print publication:
    28 April 2022, pp 173-196

  • Summary

    Discussion of Cicero’s quotation of lyrics from Roman tragedy - particularly Accius’ Philocteta and Ennius’ Andromacha - in the Tusculan Disputations as part of philosophical argument against the vocalization of pain. Discussion of Cicero’s understanding of the musicality, melody, and pitch of Roman tragic song, and the use of song as part of philosophical argumentation.

The Portrayal of Breastfeeding in Literature
  • B. J. Woodstein
  • Published by:
    Anthem Press
    Published online:
    27 April 2022
    Print publication:
    08 February 2022
  • How are breasts and breastfeeding shown in literature? Why does the depiction of breastfeeding in literature matter? What messages do we get from literature about the feeding of infants and children and about women’s bodies? Is this different in different cultures? What causes cultural and historical differences and what can we learn from them?

    This cross-cultural study analyses images and descriptions of breasts and breastfeeding in children’s books and literature for adults, in both English and Swedish. It explores how breastfeeding is depicted in literature in the two languages and discusses why there are differences in the cultures. Literary, feminist, anthropological, sociological, historical and cultural research is used to support this analysis and to suggest explanations for the differing depictions.

    While this intercultural exploration of breasts and breastfeeding in literature is academic and relies on extensive research, the book also suggests that this reflects popular culture today.

    In short, this book will focus on a topic not yet seen in any depth in academic research and will raise fresh awareness of the power of literature to influence how readers see their own and other people’s bodies. It will also illuminate cultural and historical differences that affect what writers describe and illustrators depict in literature when it comes to breasts and breastfeeding. The book challenges the currently prevailing ways of depicting female bodies in literature and discusses the way societal norms influence the writing and illustrating of literature.

Cicero and the Early Latin Poets
  • Hannah Čulík-Baird
  • Published online:
    21 April 2022
    Print publication:
    28 April 2022
  • The writings of Cicero contain hundreds of quotations of Latin poetry. This book examines his citations of Latin poets writing in diverse poetic genres and demonstrates the importance of poetry as an ethical, historical, and linguistic resource in the late Roman Republic. Hannah Čulík-Baird studies Cicero's use of poetry in his letters, speeches, and philosophical works, contextualizing his practice within the broader intellectual trends of contemporary Rome. Cicero's quotations of the 'classic' Latin poets, such as Ennius, Pacuvius, Accius, and Lucilius, are responsible for preserving the most significant fragments of verse from the second century BCE. The book also therefore examines the process of fragmentation in classical antiquity, with particular attention to the relationship between quotation and fragmentation. The Appendices collect perceptible instances of poetic citation (Greek as well as Latin) in the Ciceronian corpus.

Late Hellenistic Greek Literature in Dialogue
  • Edited by Jason König, Nicolas Wiater
  • Published online:
    21 April 2022
    Print publication:
    05 May 2022
  • Late Hellenistic Greek literature, both prose and poetry, stands out for its richness and diversity. Recent work has tended to take an author-by-author approach that underestimates the interconnectedness of the literary culture of the period. The chapters assembled here set out to change that by offering new readings of a wide range of late Hellenistic texts and genres, including historiography, geography, rhetoric and philosophy, together with many verse texts and inscriptions. In the process, they offer new insights into the various ways in which late Hellenistic literature engaged with its social, cultural and political contexts, while interrogating and revising some of the standard narratives of the relationship between late Hellenistic and imperial Greek literary culture, which are too often studied in isolation from each other. As a whole the book prompts us to rethink the place of late Hellenistic literature within the wider landscape of Greek and Roman literary history.

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