Poetics: Stephen Sansom, "Lucan's Hesiod: Erictho as Typhon in Bellum"
Please join us March听3 (Thursday) from 6-8 pm听for a workshop with听Stephen Sansom (PhD candidate, Classics).听The workshop will take place in the Terrace Room in Margaret Jacks Hall (4th floor,听bld. 460). Ted Kelting (PhD candidate, Classics) will serve as respondent.
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Of the piece, Stephen writes:
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In this paper, I argue that the Roman poet Lucan closely models his character Erictho's diabolical incantation (Bellum Civile听6.685-94) on the Greek poet Hesiod's depiction of Typhon inTheogony听829-41. I outline the specific linguistic similarities between the two passages before providing a thematic argument, namely that Hesiod's Typhon serves as an especially appropriate intertextual model not only for Erictho's invocation but also for the discordant poetics of the听Bellum Civile. I conclude by suggesting that Lucan engages in a tradition of poetic reuse of Typhon especially in response to Typhon's apperance in Ovid听Metamorphoses听5.
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Please email听mkim6 [at] stanford.edu (mkim6[at]stanford[dot]edu) for the pre-circulated paper.