TY  - JOUR
A1  - Schollmeyer, Patrick
ED  - Ambühl, Annemarie
T1  - Lotte Eisner
BT  - eine Archäologin als Filmkritikerin
JF  - PaRDeS : Zeitschrift der Vereinigung für Jüdische Studien = Transformative Translations in Jewish History and Culture
N2  - Lotte Eisner (1896–1983) is without doubt one of the most important early film critics and pioneers of film history. In the history of Classical Studies, however, she plays no role. She is not even mentioned in the relevant scholarly books or articles, although she received a doctorate degree in Classical Archaeology. But it is worth taking a closer look at this relatively short phase of her life. The following lines are to be understood as a sketch of her specific ‘archaeological’ view of German Expressionist silent films. Lotte Eisner herself comments on this in her autobiography.
KW  - Lotte Eisner
KW  - expressionism
KW  - silent film
KW  - vase-painting
KW  - Classical Archaeology
Y1  - 2020
U6  - https://doi.org/10.34679/thersites.vol11.179
SN  - 2364-7612
VL  - 2020
IS  - 11
SP  - 324
EP  - 342
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Ambühl, Annemarie
ED  - Ambühl, Annemarie
T1  - Vorwort: tessellae
JF  - thersites 11: tessellae – Birthday Issue for Christine Walde
N2  - Prolegomena to thersites 11, "tessellae – Birthday Issue for Christine Walde"
Y1  - 2020
U6  - https://doi.org/10.34679/thersites.vol11.185
SN  - 2364-7612
VL  - 2020
IS  - 11
SP  - i
EP  - vi
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Grewing, Farouk F.
ED  - Ambühl, Annemarie
T1  - A Saturnalian poet as a literary critic
BT  - the carnivalesque poetics of Martial’s Apophoreta 183-196
JF  - thersites = tessellae – Birthday Issue for Christine Walde
N2  - This paper analyzes a specific section of Martial’s Apophoreta (Book 14), the ‘list’ of fourteen literary works that the poet-persona suggests to the reader as potentially suitable presents to give to friends on the occasion of the Saturnalia. It focuses strictly on the literary aspects of the poems and their underlying carnivalesque poetics. This includes an assessment of the logic of the poems’ arrangement and alleged inconsistencies. It is suggested that the section be read as a complex statement of Martial’s on various works and genres of Greek and Roman literature. The last couplet of the section (14.196), a certain Calvus’ work ‘On the use of cold water’ (De aquae frigidae usu), which is unidentifiable, receives particular attention, for previous scholarship has wasted a lot of ink on guessing what kind of work this may have been, thereby losing touch with the rich (meta-)poetics the couplet actually conveys.
KW  - Martial
KW  - epigram
KW  - Saturnalia
KW  - poetics
KW  - Apophoreta
Y1  - 2020
U6  - https://doi.org/10.34679/thersites.vol11.170
SN  - 2364-7612
VL  - 2020
IS  - 11
SP  - 176
EP  - 204
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Heinemann, Matthias
A1  - Weiß, Adrian
ED  - Ambühl, Annemarie
T1  - Roms Metamorphosen im Exil
BT  - die Romae novae des exul bei Ovid und Lucan
JF  - thersites 11: tessellae – Birthday Issue for Christine Walde
N2  - In this article, we want to elucidate and contrast the exilic fates rendered in Ovid’s exilic elegies and in Lucan’s Bellum Civile. While Ovid’s persona undergoes a slow development towards acceptance of the exilic condition by ‘refounding’ a second Rome in Tomi, Lucan’s Pompey gradually severs himself from Rome, culminating in him dying far from home apparently without regrets. Both characters try to transfer the concept of Rome to new entities. However, they are not able to escape Rome’s grasp: Pompey is killed by a Roman mercenary in Egypt, Naso’s Roma secunda is in the end only a reproduction of the exul’s irrevocably Roman fate.
KW  - P. Ovidius Naso
KW  - M. Annaeus Lucanus
KW  - exile
KW  - Rome
KW  - Pompeius Magnus
Y1  - 2020
U6  - https://doi.org/10.34679/thersites.vol11.162
SN  - 2364-7612
VL  - 2020
IS  - 11
SP  - 117
EP  - 150
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Kirichenko, Alexander
ED  - Ambühl, Annemarie
T1  - Sex, Macht und Fiktion in den Metamorphosen Ovids
JF  - thersites 11: tessellae – Birthday Issue for Christine Walde
N2  - This article analyses the eroticized power dynamics that Ovid stages in the Metamorphoses. It argues that 1) erotic desire functions in Ovid as a synonym of the desire for power; 2) that the transformations of gods can be read as a metaphor of the powerful subjecting the powerless to their will; 3) that metamorphosed humans can be regarded as notional monuments to divine power; and 4) that, by parading the self-evident fictionality of his transformation tales (including, most notably, the story of Julius Caesar’s apotheosis in Book 15), Ovid allows his readers, at least for the duration of the reading process, to experience a modicum of freedom.
KW  - Ovid
KW  - Metamorphoses
KW  - Augustus
KW  - political Eros
KW  - fictionality
Y1  - 2020
U6  - https://doi.org/10.34679/thersites.vol11.172
VL  - 2020
IS  - 11
SP  - 97
EP  - 116
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Schierl, Petra
ED  - Ambühl, Annemarie
T1  - Der Heldenkörper in Szene gesetzt
BT  - die Muskeln des Hercules in Epos und Elegie
JF  - thersites 11: tessellae – Birthday Issue for Christine Walde
N2  - Taking its cue from the portrayal of Hercules as muscleman in both films and ancient sculpture this article turns to poetry as a verbal art and examines when and how the hero's body comes into focus in Roman epic and elegy. It is argued that moments of crisis contrasting Hercules’ state in a given situation to his former heroic achievements give rise to representations of his body, while epic fight scenes rather draw attention to the bodies of his inferior opponents. The body is described through references to different body parts, qualified by attributes as masculine in elegiac contexts. A somewhat exotic word as tori suffices to highlight the hero’s muscular body.
KW  - Hercules
KW  - Roman epic
KW  - love elegy
KW  - body
KW  - heroism
KW  - masculinity
Y1  - 2020
U6  - https://doi.org/10.34679/thersites.vol11.182
SN  - 2364-7612
VL  - 2020
IS  - 11
SP  - 31
EP  - 68
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Merli, Elena
ED  - Ambühl, Annemarie
T1  - Nota sul Silio Italico ‹politico› negli epigrammi di Marziale
JF  - thersites = tessellae – Birthday Issue for Christine Walde
N2  - In Martial’s epigrams Silius Italicus is portrayed as a man of learning, author of the Punica and admirer of Vergil’s works, but also as a public figure and a former consul of Rome. My paper focuses on the epigrams devoted to the ‘political’ Silius, and suggests to relate them mainly to a certain stage in Silius Italicus’ life and to a specific communication strategy.
KW  - Silius Italicus
KW  - Martial
KW  - Pliny the Younger
KW  - Neronian age
KW  - otium–negotium
KW  - literary patronage
KW  - senatorial class
Y1  - 2020
U6  - https://doi.org/10.34679/thersites.vol11.175
SN  - 2364-7612
VL  - 2020
IS  - 11
SP  - 205
EP  - 217
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Weiss, Irene M.
ED  - Ambühl, Annemarie
T1  - Amarilis y la belleza de Zacinto
BT  - voces de poetas en el idilio 4 de Teócrito
JF  - thersites 11: tessellae – Birthday Issue for Christine Walde
N2  - Theocritus’ id. 4 has been considered by some scholars as an example of rural mime; the fact that the poem, a unique case in the Corpus Theocriteum, does not contain any pastoral song or contest contributes to the impression of ‘realism’. This lack could be an obstacle for the poetological approach to the bucolic genre in antiquity, which considers metapoetry as its main feature. Our reading of the idyll shows that this limitation is only apparent.
KW  - Theocritus
KW  - bucolic genre
KW  - metapoetry
KW  - intertextuality
KW  - Aristophanes
Y1  - 2020
U6  - https://doi.org/10.34679/thersites.vol11.174
SN  - 2364-7612
VL  - 2020
IS  - 11
SP  - 1
EP  - 30
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Schmitzer, Ulrich
ED  - Ambühl, Annemarie
T1  - Etymologie und Erotik
BT  - Properz schreibt das elegische Rom
JF  - thersites 11: tessellae – Birthday Issue for Christine Walde
N2  - Propertius’ fourth book of elegies is generally read with respect to the antiquarian and aetiological learning presented there. But it is as well the continuation of the erotic themes that Propertius has developed in the first three books – book 4 is on both aetiology and love.
KW  - Propertius
KW  - Varro
KW  - elegy
KW  - Rome
KW  - aetiology
Y1  - 2020
U6  - https://doi.org/10.34679/thersites.vol11.178
SN  - 2364-7612
VL  - 2020
IS  - 11
SP  - 69
EP  - 96
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Wieber, Anja
ED  - Ambühl, Annemarie
T1  - Die palmyrenische Königin Zenobia als Werbeikone für Seife
JF  - PaRDeS : Zeitschrift der Vereinigung für Jüdische Studien = Transformative Translations in Jewish History and Culture
N2  - This article analyses, as an example of the advertising of cosmetic products, a campaign launched by the US-American company “Johnson Soap” for their product, the facial soap “Palmolive”. Examining its ads of 1911 in which certain ancient exempla are employed, it becomes clear that the Palmyrene queen Zenobia and with her the semi-historical Semiramis and the more mythical Dido are aligned to the “1001 Nights” character Scheherazade. Since they are jointly labelled as “historically famous oriental queens” and because of the reference to Zenobia’s white skin, they fall into the fantasy of fair-skinned harem women and evoke thoughts of all the pleasures and comforts of the luxurious Orient. To the modern female customer of 1900 (well steeped in the knowledge of those ancient characters) Zenobia and the other exempla should serve as celebrities worth emulating. Above all they are deemed to be beautiful, and experts in cosmetics which would guarantee the effect of the product they are standing for. A finding that proves to be valid even in an advertising concept of today for the Syrian-German “Zhenobya-soap”.
KW  - Zenobia
KW  - classical reception
KW  - advertising (cosmetics, USA, ca. 1900)
KW  - orientalism
KW  - racist subtext
KW  - Dido
KW  - Semiramis
KW  - Scheherazade
KW  - Cleopatra
Y1  - 2020
U6  - https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.34679/thersites.vol11.169
SN  - 2364-7612
VL  - 2020
IS  - 11
SP  - 277
EP  - 323
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Feichtinger, Barbara
ED  - Ambühl, Annemarie
T1  - Bukolisches Idyll in Bethlehem
BT  - zur kulturellen Hybridität von Hieronymus Epistula 46
JF  - PaRDeS : Zeitschrift der Vereinigung für Jüdische Studien = Transformative Translations in Jewish History and Culture
N2  - Epistula 46 is an invitation, written under the name of Paula and Eustochium, for Marcella to go to Bethlehem, by all means with the aim to stimulate positive interest in the Holy Land for a wider public and to inspire the urge to travel and sojourn. The narrative defines pilgrimage not only through biblical references but also familiarizes it through references to ancient pagan practices and pagan literature and makes it compatible with the lifestyle of Rome’s urban elites. While biblical references predominantly propagate Palestine’s spiritual appeal as a site of centuries-long salvation events, references to the classics – often combined with the expression or the stimulation of emotions – put the region’s social and intellectual appeal to the fore. The use of pagan literature, in which the traditions of educational travel of a cosmopolitan elite, the social utopia of aristocratic recessus, and not least the pleasure of otium aestheticised through literature are prefigurated, shapes Palestine in particular fashion as a place of longing. Especially the appeal of Bethlehem thus only forms through the combination of spiritual-intellectual visio and emotionally attractive social utopia, through conjunction of spelunca Christi and bucolic idyll.
KW  - Jerome
KW  - pilgrimage
KW  - intertextuality
KW  - cultural hybridity
KW  - Bethlehem
Y1  - 2020
U6  - https://doi.org/10.34679/thersites.vol11.168
SN  - 2364-7612
VL  - 2020
IS  - 11
SP  - 218
EP  - 246
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Kranzdorf, Anna
A1  - Werner, Eva
ED  - Ambühl, Annemarie
T1  - „An Herrn Prof. A. Wlosok“
BT  - über eine der ersten Latinistikprofessorinnen im deutschsprachigen Raum – eine Spurensuche im Jahr 2020
JF  - PaRDeS : Zeitschrift der Vereinigung für Jüdische Studien = Transformative Translations in Jewish History and Culture
N2  - In contrast to other European countries, female professors of Classical Philology have been severely underrepresented in Germany. This article wants to shed light on Antonie Wlosok (1930–2013), the first or second woman to hold a Chair of Classical Philology in Germany. How can Wlosok’s work at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz be described, considering especially the very male-dominated academic world? Based on testimonials from the university archives and selected publications, this essay aims to give insights to this question, highlighting current debates about women in academia.
KW  - Antonie Wlosok
KW  - Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz
KW  - history of women in academia
KW  - Gender Studies
KW  - history of classical philology
Y1  - 2020
U6  - https://doi.org/10.34679/thersites.vol11.165
SN  - 2364-7612
VL  - 2020
IS  - 11
SP  - 343
EP  - 356
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Seng, Helmut
ED  - Ambühl, Annemarie
T1  - Träume statt Theurgie
BT  - Zum Traumbuch des Synesios (Περὶ ἐνυπνίων / De insomniis)
JF  - PaRDeS : Zeitschrift der Vereinigung für Jüdische Studien = Transformative Translations in Jewish History and Culture
N2  - In his work De insomniis (On Dreams), Synesios adopts a rather critical view of theurgy, resembling Porphyry’s attitude; his wording shows polemical exaggeration. His insistence on the usefulness of dream revelation for hunting might be read as a (not too serious) claim to the divine inspiration of his work κυνηγετικαί.
KW  - Synesius
KW  - dreams
KW  - divination
KW  - theurgy
KW  - philosophy
Y1  - 2020
U6  - https://doi.org/10.34679/thersites.vol11.167
SN  - 2364-7612
VL  - 2020
IS  - 11
SP  - 247
EP  - 276
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Löbcke, Konrad
ED  - Ambühl, Annemarie
T1  - Review of Jesse Weiner, Benjamin E. Stevens & Brett M. Rogers (eds.): Frankenstein and Its Classics. The Modern Prometheus from Antiquity to Science Fiction
BT  - Bloomsbury Academic (London & New York 2018) (= Bloomsbury Studies in Classical Reception), xiv + 273 p., with 14 b/w illustrations. ISBN: 9781350054905, £ 22.99/US$ 30.95 (pb)/£ 70.00/US$ 95 .00 (hb)
JF  - PaRDeS : Zeitschrift der Vereinigung für Jüdische Studien = Transformative Translations in Jewish History and Culture
Y1  - 2020
U6  - https://doi.org/10.34679/thersites.vol11.180
SN  - 2364-7612
VL  - 2020
IS  - 11
SP  - 385
EP  - 391
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Wesselmann, Katharina
ED  - Ambühl, Annemarie
T1  - Review of Rachel Bryant Davies: Victorian Epic Burlesques. A Critical Anthology of Nineteenth-Century Theatrical Entertainments after Homer
BT  - Bloomsbury (London & New York 2019) (= Bloomsbury Studies in Classical Reception), xi & 284 p., 12 illustrations. ISBN: 9781350027176, £ 26.09 (pb)/£ 81.00 (hb)
JF  - PaRDeS : Zeitschrift der Vereinigung für Jüdische Studien = Transformative Translations in Jewish History and Culture
Y1  - 2020
U6  - https://doi.org/10.34679/thersites.vol11.181
SN  - 2364-7612
VL  - 2020
IS  - 11
SP  - 379
EP  - 384
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Di Rocco, Emilia
ED  - Ambühl, Annemarie
T1  - Review of Silvio Bär & Emily Hauser (eds.), Reading Poetry, Writing Genre. English Poetry and Literary Criticism in Dialogue with Classical Scholarship
BT  - Bloomsbury Academic (London & New York 2019) (Bloomsbury Studies in Classical Reception), xii & 256 p. ISBN: 978-1-350-03932-2, $ 102.60 (hb)
JF  - PaRDeS : Zeitschrift der Vereinigung für Jüdische Studien = Transformative Translations in Jewish History and Culture
Y1  - 2020
U6  - https://doi.org/10.34679/thersites.vol11.183
SN  - 2364-7612
VL  - 2020
IS  - 11
SP  - 370
EP  - 378
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Brinker, Wolfram
ED  - Ambühl, Annemarie
T1  - Rezension zu Harold Tarrant, Danielle A. Layne, Dirk Baltzly & François Renaud (eds.): Brill’s Companion to the Reception of Plato in Antiquity
BT  - Brill (Leiden & Boston 2018) (= Brill’s Companions to Classical Reception 13), p. xxi, 657. ISBN: 9789004270695, € 187.00 (hb)
JF  - PaRDeS : Zeitschrift der Vereinigung für Jüdische Studien = Transformative Translations in Jewish History and Culture
Y1  - 2020
U6  - https://doi.org/10.34679/thersites.vol11.177
SN  - 2364-7612
VL  - 2020
IS  - 11
SP  - 362
EP  - 369
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Wöhrle, Georg
ED  - Ambühl, Annemarie
T1  - Sängers Glück
BT  - zu Reinhard Meys Lied Ich wollte wie Orpheus singen
JF  - PaRDeS : Zeitschrift der Vereinigung für Jüdische Studien = Transformative Translations in Jewish History and Culture
N2  - The German singer-songwriter Reinhard Mey, although not pretending to be a second Orpheus, nevertheless appears to be very familiar with classical myth.
KW  - classical reception
KW  - Orpheus
KW  - Reinhard Mey
Y1  - 2020
U6  - https://doi.org/10.34679/thersites.vol11.171
SN  - 2364-7612
VL  - 2020
IS  - 11
SP  - 357
EP  - 361
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Heinemann, Matthias
ED  - Ambühl, Annemarie
T1  - Review of Eran Almagor and Lisa Maurice (eds.), The Reception of Ancient Virtues and Vices in Modern Popular Culture. Beauty, Bravery, Blood and Glory
BT  - Brill (Leiden/Boston 2017) (= Metaforms 11), XIV + 424 pp., 32 mostly color illustrations. ISBN: 9789004347724, € 149.00 (hb, also available as e-book)
JF  - PaRDeS : Zeitschrift der Vereinigung für Jüdische Studien = Transformative Translations in Jewish History and Culture
Y1  - 2020
U6  - https://doi.org/0.34679/thersites.vol11.111
SN  - 2364-7612
VL  - 2020
IS  - 11
SP  - 392
EP  - 400
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Benedetti, Ginevra
ED  - Ambühl, Annemarie
T1  - Recension de Fabien Bièvre-Perrin & Élise Pampanay (dir.) Antiquipop. La référence à l’Antiquité dans la culture populaire contemporaine
BT  - Lyon, MOM Éditions, 2018. OpenEdition Books, ISBN: 9782356680662, Open Access/€ 16.99 (EPUB/PDF)
JF  - PaRDeS : Zeitschrift der Vereinigung für Jüdische Studien = Transformative Translations in Jewish History and Culture
Y1  - 2020
U6  - https://doi.org/10.34679/thersites.vol11.121
SN  - 2364-7612
VL  - 2020
IS  - 11
SP  - 401
EP  - 410
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Esposito, Paolo
ED  - Ambühl, Annemarie
T1  - Cesare nella Troade: l’impossibile rinascita del passato
JF  - PaRDeS : Zeitschrift der Vereinigung für Jüdische Studien = Transformative Translations in Jewish History and Culture
N2  - Caesar’s visit to the ruins of ancient Troy in Lucan’s Bellum Civile book IX is an invented story which deals with important metaliterary themes such as poetic fama and the poetry’s eternalizing function. Lucan’s narrative also reveals the instrumental nature of Caesarean and Augustan propaganda: the Neronian poet highlights some contradictions of the Aeneid, showing the failure of the political project celebrated by Vergil.
KW  - Lucan
KW  - Caesar
KW  - historical memory
KW  - poetic glory
KW  - Aeneid
Y1  - 2020
U6  - https://doi.org/10.34679/thersites.vol11.164
SN  - 2364-7612
VL  - 2020
IS  - 11
SP  - 151
EP  - 175
ER  -