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Italo Calvino and Classics
Lightness – Quickness – 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 Calvino’s poetic qualities – lightness, quickness, multiplicity – into powerful hermeneutic strategies for reading ancient and late antique texts, ranging widely from Homer’s Iliad to Claudian’s carmina minora. It is the first book to read ancient literature through the lens of Calvino’s 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 Ovid’s Metamorphoses. He is the editor of the series “sera tela. Studies in Late Antique Literature and its Reception” (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 Ovid’s Metamorphoses. He is the editor of the series “sera tela. Studies in Late Antique Literature and its Reception” (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 Bakchylides’ Poetik der Leichtigkeit in Epinikion 5
JanR. Stenger
2 Trauer, Schmerz und dichterische Form
Literatur als Existenzbewältigung nach Italo Calvino
Sabine Föllinger
3 Calvino’s Perseus
Strategies of Narrated Lightness in Ovid’s Metamorphoses
Therese Fuhrer
4 Lizenz zum Schreiben
Leichtigkeit und Schwere in Ovids Tristia
Antje Wessels
5 Horace and Ovid
Two Ways of Thinking about the leuitas of Love?
Jacqueline Fabre-Serris
6 Light Weight
Pliny (with Tacitus) on Master-Murder (Ep. 3.14)
Christopher Whitton
7 Geschwindigkeit als analytisches Problem
Euripides’ Orestes als Testfall für eine Untersuchung literarischer ‚rapidità‘
Martin Hose
8 Der Abgesang auf die Bukolik in Vergils neunter Ecloge
Tobias Uhle
9 Schnelles und leichtes Ende in Senecas Consolatio ad Helviam
Henriette Harich-Schwarzbauer
10 Pliny’s Shortest Letters
KathleenM. Coleman
11 Beschleunigung in vormodernen Zeiten?
Literarische Gestaltung von Beschleunigung in antiken christlichen Texten
Christoph Markschies
12 Anakreons multiple Lesbierin
Eine spielerische Hommage an Sappho
Renate Schlesier
13 Der Satiriker und sein Vater
Satirische Poetik und mos maiorum im Licht von Italo Calvinos Memos for the Next Millennium
Gernot Michael Müller
14 Vergil and Sibylline Prophecy
Generic Multiplicity in the Aeneid
Stephen Harrison
15 Unendliche Möglichkeiten
Calvinos molteplicità und die Controversiae des Älteren Seneca
Lisa 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
Janja Soldo
17 Diffracting Flatness
Multiplicity and Materiality in Claudian’s Carmina minora
Paolo Felice Sacchi
18 “Un livre sur rien”
Multiplicity, Indeterminacy, and Interpretation in the De rosis nascentibus
Marco Formisano
Index
Introduction
Part1 Lightness
1 Bakchylides’ Poetik der Leichtigkeit in Epinikion 5
JanR. Stenger
2 Trauer, Schmerz und dichterische Form
Literatur als Existenzbewältigung nach Italo Calvino
Sabine Föllinger
3 Calvino’s Perseus
Strategies of Narrated Lightness in Ovid’s Metamorphoses
Therese Fuhrer
4 Lizenz zum Schreiben
Leichtigkeit und Schwere in Ovids Tristia
Antje Wessels
5 Horace and Ovid
Two Ways of Thinking about the leuitas of Love?
Jacqueline Fabre-Serris
6 Light Weight
Pliny (with Tacitus) on Master-Murder (Ep. 3.14)
Christopher Whitton
Part2 Quickness
7 Geschwindigkeit als analytisches Problem
Euripides’ Orestes als Testfall für eine Untersuchung literarischer ‚rapidità‘
Martin Hose
8 Der Abgesang auf die Bukolik in Vergils neunter Ecloge
Tobias Uhle
9 Schnelles und leichtes Ende in Senecas Consolatio ad Helviam
Henriette Harich-Schwarzbauer
10 Pliny’s Shortest Letters
KathleenM. Coleman
11 Beschleunigung in vormodernen Zeiten?
Literarische Gestaltung von Beschleunigung in antiken christlichen Texten
Christoph Markschies
Part3 Multiplicity
12 Anakreons multiple Lesbierin
Eine spielerische Hommage an Sappho
Renate Schlesier
13 Der Satiriker und sein Vater
Satirische Poetik und mos maiorum im Licht von Italo Calvinos Memos for the Next Millennium
Gernot Michael Müller
14 Vergil and Sibylline Prophecy
Generic Multiplicity in the Aeneid
Stephen Harrison
15 Unendliche Möglichkeiten
Calvinos molteplicità und die Controversiae des Älteren Seneca
Lisa 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
Janja Soldo
17 Diffracting Flatness
Multiplicity and Materiality in Claudian’s Carmina minora
Paolo Felice Sacchi
18 “Un livre sur rien”
Multiplicity, Indeterminacy, and Interpretation in the De rosis nascentibus
Marco 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.