Brill's companion to Valerius Flaccus
- M. Heerink, G. Manuwald
- History
- 18 July 2014
Brill's Companion to Valerius Flaccus is the first English-language survey on all key aspects of this Flavian poet and his epic Argonautica (1st century CE). A team of international specialists…
Echoing Hylas: A Study in Hellenistic and Roman Metapoetics
- M. Heerink
- History
- 15 December 2015
In Echoing Hylas, Mark Heerink argues that the story of Hylas—a famous episode of the Argonauts’ voyage—was used by poets throughout classical antiquity to reflect symbolically on the position of…
GOING A STEP FURTHER: VALERIUS FLACCUS' METAPOETICAL READING OF PROPERTIUS' HYLAS
- M. Heerink
- HistoryClassical Quarterly
- 7 November 2007
Propertius 1.20 poses many interpretative questions, which scholars have tried to solve not least by comparing the poem with other versions of the Hylas myth, notably those of Apollonius (Argon.…
Echoing Hylas : metapoetics in Hellenistic and Roman poetry
- J. Booth, M. Heerink
- Art
- 1 December 2008
I have argued in my thesis that poets throughout classical antiquity used this myth to reflect allegorically on their own poetry. Certain elements of the myth as well as Hylas himself function as…
Valerius Flaccus, Virgil and the Poetics of Ekphrasis
- M. Heerink
- History
- 2014
Descriptions of works of art in classical poetry are often susceptible to interpretation as instances of mise en abyme, i.e. miniature representations of (an aspect of) the work of which they are…
Merging Paradigms: Translating Pharaonic Ideology in Theocritus’ Idyll 17
- M. Heerink
- History
- 2010
The last thirty years have seen an upsurge of interest among classicists in teasing out Egyptian influences in the poetry of the Hellenistic scholar-poets Callimachus, Theocritus and Apollonius of…
Apollonius and Callimachus on Heracles and Theiodamas: A Metapoetical Interpretation
- M. Heerink
- Art, History
- 2012
Apollonius of Rhodes’ digression on Heracles and Theiodamas (Arg. 1.1211-20) alludes to Callimachus’ version of the story in his Aetia (fr. 24-5 Pf.). This article provides a metapoetical…
Ovid’s Aeginetan Plague and the Metamorphosis of the Georgics
- M. Heerink
- HistoryHermes
- 2011
The influence of the ancient literary tradition upon the Georgics is as broad as it is profound , but in Virgil’s highly allusive didactic poem, the description of the Noric cattle plague at the end…
Foaming Cups: A Textual Note on Valerius Flaccus Argonautica 1.815
- M. Heerink, Pieter Phillip van den Broek
- HistoryClassical Philology
- 1 October 2022
In this note we argue that in line 815 of Book 1 of Valerius Flaccus’ Argonautica spumantia should be read—a reading of one manuscript, which was independently also conjectured by Nicolaas…
...
...