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Italo Calvino and Classics
Lightness â Quickness â Multiplicity
Series: - Mnemosyne, Supplements, Volume: 488
In his Memos for the Next Millennium, the Italian writer Italo Calvino identified five literary qualities that should accompany writers and readers into the literature of the future: lightness, quickness, exactitude, visibility, multiplicity. Though never finished, the Memos continue to inspire readers and scholars. This volume turns three of Calvinoâs poetic qualities â lightness, quickness, multiplicity â into powerful hermeneutic strategies for reading ancient and late antique texts, ranging widely from Homerâs Iliad to Claudianâs carmina minora. It is the first book to read ancient literature through the lens of Calvinoâs Memos, thus fostering a new discussion of the interactions between modern and ancient texts as well as between methodologies.
Lisa Cordes is Professor of Latin Language and Literature at Humboldt University, Berlin. She has published on Neronian and Flavian literature, panegyric rhetoric, gender studies in antiquity and ancient concepts of fiction, authorship and the literary character.
Marco Formisano is Professor of Latin literature at Ghent University. He has published extensively on late antique literature, early Christian martyr acts, ancient technical and scientific texts, and Ovidâs Metamorphoses. He is the editor of the series âsera tela. Studies in Late Antique Literature and its Receptionâ (Bloomsbury, London).
Janja Soldo is Lecturer in Classical Languages and Literature at the University of Edinburgh. She is the author of Seneca Epistulae Morales Book 2. A Commentary with Text, Translation & Introduction (OUP 2021) and has published a co-edited volume and articles on ancient epistolography.
Contributors are: Kathleen M. Coleman, Lisa Cordes, Jacqueline Fabre-Serris, Sabine Föllinger, Marco Formisano, Therese Fuhrer, Henriette Harich-Schwarzbauer, Stephen Harrison, Martin Hose, Christoph Markschies, Gernot Michael Müller, Paolo Felice Sacci, Renate Schlesier, Janja Soldo, Jan R. Stenger, Tobias Uhle, Antje Wessels, Christopher Whitton.
Marco Formisano is Professor of Latin literature at Ghent University. He has published extensively on late antique literature, early Christian martyr acts, ancient technical and scientific texts, and Ovidâs Metamorphoses. He is the editor of the series âsera tela. Studies in Late Antique Literature and its Receptionâ (Bloomsbury, London).
Janja Soldo is Lecturer in Classical Languages and Literature at the University of Edinburgh. She is the author of Seneca Epistulae Morales Book 2. A Commentary with Text, Translation & Introduction (OUP 2021) and has published a co-edited volume and articles on ancient epistolography.
Contributors are: Kathleen M. Coleman, Lisa Cordes, Jacqueline Fabre-Serris, Sabine Föllinger, Marco Formisano, Therese Fuhrer, Henriette Harich-Schwarzbauer, Stephen Harrison, Martin Hose, Christoph Markschies, Gernot Michael Müller, Paolo Felice Sacci, Renate Schlesier, Janja Soldo, Jan R. Stenger, Tobias Uhle, Antje Wessels, Christopher Whitton.
Preface
Introduction
1 Bakchylidesâ Poetik der Leichtigkeit in Epinikion 5
âJanR. Stenger
2 Trauer, Schmerz und dichterische Form
Literatur als Existenzbewältigung nach Italo Calvino
âSabine Föllinger
3 Calvinoâs Perseus
Strategies of Narrated Lightness in Ovidâs Metamorphoses
âTherese Fuhrer
4 Lizenz zum Schreiben
Leichtigkeit und Schwere in Ovids Tristia
âAntje Wessels
5 Horace and Ovid
Two Ways of Thinking about the leuitas of Love?
âJacqueline Fabre-Serris
6 Light Weight
Pliny (with Tacitus) on Master-Murder (Ep. 3.14)
âChristopher Whitton
7 Geschwindigkeit als analytisches Problem
Euripidesâ Orestes als Testfall für eine Untersuchung literarischer ârapidità â
âMartin Hose
8 Der Abgesang auf die Bukolik in Vergils neunter Ecloge
âTobias Uhle
9 Schnelles und leichtes Ende in Senecas Consolatio ad Helviam
âHenriette Harich-Schwarzbauer
10 Plinyâs Shortest Letters
âKathleenM. Coleman
11 Beschleunigung in vormodernen Zeiten?
Literarische Gestaltung von Beschleunigung in antiken christlichen Texten
âChristoph Markschies
12 Anakreons multiple Lesbierin
Eine spielerische Hommage an Sappho
âRenate Schlesier
13 Der Satiriker und sein Vater
Satirische Poetik und mos maiorum im Licht von Italo Calvinos Memos for the Next Millennium
âGernot Michael Müller
14 Vergil and Sibylline Prophecy
Generic Multiplicity in the Aeneid
âStephen Harrison
15 Unendliche Möglichkeiten
Calvinos molteplicità und die Controversiae des Ãlteren Seneca
âLisa Cordes
16 Multiplicity in Ancient Epistolography
Italo Calvino and Fronto Ad Antoninum Imperatorem 1.35 and Ad M.Caesarem et invicem 2.2 and 2.8
âJanja Soldo
17 Diffracting Flatness
Multiplicity and Materiality in Claudianâs Carmina minora
âPaolo Felice Sacchi
18 âUn livre sur rienâ
Multiplicity, Indeterminacy, and Interpretation in the De rosis nascentibus
âMarco Formisano
Index
Introduction
Part1 Lightness
1 Bakchylidesâ Poetik der Leichtigkeit in Epinikion 5
âJanR. Stenger
2 Trauer, Schmerz und dichterische Form
Literatur als Existenzbewältigung nach Italo Calvino
âSabine Föllinger
3 Calvinoâs Perseus
Strategies of Narrated Lightness in Ovidâs Metamorphoses
âTherese Fuhrer
4 Lizenz zum Schreiben
Leichtigkeit und Schwere in Ovids Tristia
âAntje Wessels
5 Horace and Ovid
Two Ways of Thinking about the leuitas of Love?
âJacqueline Fabre-Serris
6 Light Weight
Pliny (with Tacitus) on Master-Murder (Ep. 3.14)
âChristopher Whitton
Part2 Quickness
7 Geschwindigkeit als analytisches Problem
Euripidesâ Orestes als Testfall für eine Untersuchung literarischer ârapidità â
âMartin Hose
8 Der Abgesang auf die Bukolik in Vergils neunter Ecloge
âTobias Uhle
9 Schnelles und leichtes Ende in Senecas Consolatio ad Helviam
âHenriette Harich-Schwarzbauer
10 Plinyâs Shortest Letters
âKathleenM. Coleman
11 Beschleunigung in vormodernen Zeiten?
Literarische Gestaltung von Beschleunigung in antiken christlichen Texten
âChristoph Markschies
Part3 Multiplicity
12 Anakreons multiple Lesbierin
Eine spielerische Hommage an Sappho
âRenate Schlesier
13 Der Satiriker und sein Vater
Satirische Poetik und mos maiorum im Licht von Italo Calvinos Memos for the Next Millennium
âGernot Michael Müller
14 Vergil and Sibylline Prophecy
Generic Multiplicity in the Aeneid
âStephen Harrison
15 Unendliche Möglichkeiten
Calvinos molteplicità und die Controversiae des Ãlteren Seneca
âLisa Cordes
16 Multiplicity in Ancient Epistolography
Italo Calvino and Fronto Ad Antoninum Imperatorem 1.35 and Ad M.Caesarem et invicem 2.2 and 2.8
âJanja Soldo
17 Diffracting Flatness
Multiplicity and Materiality in Claudianâs Carmina minora
âPaolo Felice Sacchi
18 âUn livre sur rienâ
Multiplicity, Indeterminacy, and Interpretation in the De rosis nascentibus
âMarco Formisano
Index
This book will appeal to academics and advanced students interested in Classics, Italian literature and literary theory. Its main stakeholders are libraries, academic institutes and specialists working on Classics and reception studies.