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This cutting-edge collection of essays offers provocative studies of ancient history, literature, gender identifications and roles, and subsequent interpretations of the republican and imperial Roman past. The prose and poetry of Cicero and Petronius, Lucretius, Virgil, and Ovid receive fresh interpretations; pagan and Christian texts are re-examined from feminist and imaginative perspectives; genres of epic, didactic, and tragedy are re-examined; and subsequent uses and re-uses of the ancient heritage are probed with new attention: Shakespeare, Nineteenth Century American theater, and contemporary productions involving prisoners and veterans. Comprising nineteen essays collectively honoring the feminist Classical scholar Judith Hallett, this book will interest the Classical scholar, the ancient historian, the student of Reception Studies, and feminists interested in all periods. The authors from the United States, Britain, France and Switzerland are authorities in one or more of these fields and chapters range from the late Republic to the late Empire to the present.

Art, gender, and violence in the Metamorphoses, Arion 5.3 (1998), 9-41, hier 39: «The body, ultimately, is only a trope for something else, that is, the instability and vulnerability of the human condition.» 27 Hallett 2000, 554: «At lines 713 ff. [...] they happen to be standing before that temple and to be re-living, as they narrate the story of the place, that very moment when they achieved divine equality.» Griffin 1991, 56: «A string of peasant banalities may have entertained Jupiter and Mercury but Ovid does not consider that his sophisticated readers would find them equally engaging.» Konstan, David: The death of Argus, or what stories do: audience response in ancient fiction and theory, Helios 18 (1991), 15-30.

This book honors classicist [Donald Lateiner] (emeritus, Ohio Wesleyan Univ.), who is famed for the variety and quality of his work on numerous authors, genres, and topics of classical antiquity. Clark, Foster, and [Judith P. Hallett] (Creighton, Ashland, and Univ. of Maryland, respectively) begin the volume with a biography of Lateiner (based on his unpublished autobiography), which gives a fascinating account of his life and academic career.

But Ms. Hallett may now deserve an even higher professional standing, for she has invented the first new technique in years for answering one's academic critics: just casually remark -- as Ms. Hallett did on May 11, on an e-mail forum subscribed to by more than a thousand classicists around the world -- that your opponents' names \"were given to the FBI during the nationwide effort to find the Unabomber\" back in 1995. The opponents in this case are Victor Davis Hanson and John Heath, the authors of \"Who Killed Homer?\" -- last year's widely discussed attack on the current state of the classics profession. Messrs. Hanson and Heath argued in their book that, in Plato's words, the sheepdogs have become the wolves: Contemporary classics professors, the ostensible caretakers of Greek wisdom, have turned into grant-seeking purveyors of identity politics and wreckers of the ancient spirit of the university. Mr. Hanson, incidentally, has written other works celebrating the agrarian origins of the classical world. And with that, the groves of academe caught fire. Dozens of messages ignited the classicists' e-mail list, denouncing Ms. Hallett, slanging one another and damning Messrs. Hanson and Heath for starting it all. The whole thing \"has hit the nadir of looniness,\" one member mourned. A plaintive teacher at Calvin College -- whose weak joke about shooting classicists prompted Ms. Hallett's first Unabomber reference -- tried to explain that he hadn't really meant it. Syracuse University's Jeffrey Carnes dubbed the authors of \"Who Killed Homer?\" \"intemperate, incoherent, inconsistent, megalomaniacal, and amazingly self-righteous.\" And that was in an e-mail message defending them.