A Poetics of Transformation: Prudentius and Classical Mythology 9780801466892

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M^VTO :3-52Silius Italicus. Punica. Edited and translated by J. D. Duff. 2 vols. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1976. Smith, Macklin. Prudentius’ “Psychomachia:” A Reexamination. Prince¬ ton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1976. Snyder, Jane. Puns and Poetry in Lucretius’ “De Rerum Natura.” Am¬ sterdam: B. Gruner, 1980. Spence, Sarah. Rhetorics of Reason and Desire: Vergil, Augustine, and the Troubadours. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1988.

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Index of Passages Quoted

Aristotle Metaphysics 985b 16—19:

Ovid Metamorphoses 1.5—25: 143

29 -Nichomachean Ethics 3.1.5—7: 142 Ausonius Cento Nuptialis preface 36-42: 36-38 -Epigrams 41.1-4: 96^9 Claudian In Rufinum 2.351—360:

51 52 2 396 399 49 -

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:

Petronius Bellum Civile 271—277: 71 288-295: 71 Philostratus the Elder Imagines 24.2-4: 87 Prudentius Apotheosis praefatio 1—24 102-103 27-28: 104 -Cathemerinon 3.26—30: 76 -Contra Symmachum 1.502—505:

2.410-420: 53, 55 Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum 5.6240: 83 Diodorus Siculus Library of History 20.14.4-6: 1360.17

23 2.45-46: 88

2-53-54: 92n-18 2.61-64: 90 -Hamartigenia 236—250: 74-75 961-966: 44-46 -Peristephanon 3.206—210:

Horace Odes 4.4.1-4: 164 4.10:122

175n-29 10.896—910: 1 i8n.3 11.17—20: 94

Jerome Commentarius in Hiezechielem 40: 109

101 11.69-76: 95 11.77—80: 96 11-35-38:

Livy Ab Urbe Condita 1.4.2—8: 156-

n-95-104: 97

!57 1.28.9—11: ioon.22 Lucan Pharsalia 1.70—82: 73 Lucretius De Rerum Natura 1.814— 829: 28

11.111—112: 11.111 — 122: 11.123-144: 11.155—168: 11.159-162, 11.183-186:

3° 189

102 98 84-85 104—105 167—168: 108 111

Index of Passages Quoted .)

Prudentius (cont

Seneca the Elder

Controversiae

1.2.21: i64n. 12

13.1— 6, 11 — 14: 117

Hercules Furens

Seneca

13-25-3o: 125

13- 49-52: 131

668—672:

107

-Phaedra

1367-69: l4°

710-714: 1700.24

908-922: i54n.4

1370-75: 138

Servius

13.76-87: 141

ad Aen.

1.262:42

1-314: 75

13.87-88: 147 14.1- 9: 150-151

Silius Italicus

Punica

1.81—98: 131 —

132

14.10—14: 158

4.765-767: 135

14.15-20:158-159

Silvae 3.4.84-85: 123 -Thebaid 2.94-100: 6in. 12

14.21-28: 159-160

Statius

14- 38-49: 163 14.61-63: 153

53-i54>

1489-79: i

169-170

Tertullian

14.81-84: 155

De Spectaculis

29: 500.4

14-91-93: 155 14.130-133: 176

Vergil

-Praefatio 1-5: 76-77

Aeneid

4.504-516: 133

5-588-591: i°5

16—21:21

6.126-128: 106

43-45: 77

6.201—204: 640.13

-Psychomachia 278—279: 67

6.268—272: 107

665-669:59

6.273-281: 55-56

670-680: 61-62

7.415-418: 60

683-688: 59-60

7.767: 31

705-714: 63, 94

7.778-779: 92n. 18

715-718: 65

8.642-665: 99

720-725: 98-99

8.700-703: 70 9.184-185: 139

Quintilian

Institutio Oratoria

9.2.67:

9-197: 139 10.390-396: 32-34

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General Index

Adonis, 6—7, 124—125, 168—169 Agnes, Saint, 8, 78, 83, 149-177

Agnus, agna, 152, 157, 172, 174 Agnus castus, 172—177, 180 Allecto, 60—61, 68—69,

71

Amputation, 32-35, 118-121 Anagrammatic wordplay, 33, 42,

Cyprian of Carthage, 8, 78, 83, 115-148, 178-179

Dido, 130—136 Discordia, 23, 48, 58-78, 92-101, 103, 137, 178

Discrimen, 32—34, 120-121, 141 — 144

44-46, 52, 65 Atomistic wordplay, 27-31, 36 Ausonius, 14, 17-18, 23—26, 35— 38, 41, 86, 96m 19

Dismemberment, 23, 48, 52—54, 58, 65-66, 84, 92-93, 95, 98101 Dissolution, 73-75, 78, 95—101,

Binding imagery.

See Weaving

Brothel, 8, 152-153, 156, 162-167,

120, 137, 149 Donatism, 127—130, 148, 179

172 Ecphrasis, 86, 106, 110-113 Candida Massa, 8, 115, 136, 140— 148, 159, 179 Cassian, Saint, 43

Etymology of proper names, 42, 430.17, 63-64, 81-83, 960.19, 115, 147, 174-177, 180

Catacombs, 80, 82, 104, 108-110; catacomb paintings, 25, 38, 82,

Fides, 58, 65

84—86, 110—113 Centos, 24, 35-39, 41

Golden lines, 61, 65, 75—76

Circumcellions, 129, 148 Claudian, 14-16, 23, 47-54

Heresy, 92-94, 101-104, 178;

Concordia, 58—69, 72, 93—101, 137

Novatian heresy, 92, 101; Pris-

Crowns, 44, 76-77, 151, 174-177,

cillian heresy, 22.

180

Cupid Crucified, 24—25 Cyprian of Antioch, 8, 115-116, 121,134

See also Discor¬

dia Hippolytus, 31, 59,

79“1 *3>

124>

137, 140, 149, 154, 165, 167, 170, 178

General Index Labyrinth, 1, 9, 89, 94, 105-106,

Rhetoric, 116-119, 121; erotic, 137-140

112—113

Lamb. See

Agnus, agna

Romanus, Saint, 118-119

Lime, 137, 141-148 Lucan,

Romulus, 44, 149-151, 153, 156

73-74

Lucretius,

Rufinus, Flavius, 21, 23, 48-55,

27-31,

65-69

36, 91

Lugos. See Agnus castus Lukos. See Wolf Lupa. See Wolf Lupanar. See Brothel

Seduction, 116, 126, 137, 169-170 Sterility, 122-127, 148, 158 Stoicism, 72—75 Suicide, 129, 132-136, 148

Magic, 115, 132-134, 137, 148

Superbia, 67

Marriage, 116, 126, 137, 148, 165— 169,172-173

Thascius, 147.

Medusa, 161 — 163

Carthage

Cyprian of

Tongues, 65, 117—120

Mens Humilis, 67

Metis,

See also

160, 174-175, 180

Minerva, 152, 159—162

Varro, 33, 42 Venus, 116, 122-127, 166

Optatian, 39-41

Virginity, 149—161, 164—177, 179 Virtues and Vices, 55n.7, 57-69, 94

Passio Polychronii, Personification,

81,100— 1 o 1

55—57

Weaving: imagery of, 58, 61-64,

Phaedra, 83-84, 101, 154, 167, 170

72-78’ 95-1°4’ J49’ 161, 174-

Proba, Faltonia Betitia, 24, 41

177, 180

Prometheus, 174—177, 179—180

Wolf, 149, 156-157, 172

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Malamud, Martha A., 1957— A poetics of transformation. (Cornell studies in classical philology; v. 49) Bibliography: p. Includes index. 1. Prudentius, b. 348—Criticism and interpretation. 2. Christian poetry, Latin—History and criticism. 3. Mythology, Classical, in literature. I. Title. II. Series. PA6648.P7M34 1989 871'.01 88—43290 ISBN 0—8014—2249—3 (alk. paper) 792