Table Of ContentReading Roman Declamation – Calpurnius Flaccus
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Reading Roman
Declamation –
Calpurnius Flaccus
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Acknowledgements
The papers in thisvolume stem froma conference held at the Maison de la Re-
cherche,UniversitéParis-SorbonneinFebruary2014,whichhasbeengenerously
supported by the Institut Universitaire de France.
Specialthanksinthenameoftheco-organisersandallparticipantsaredue
to Charles Guérin (UPEC), whose travails and organisational skills made this
event possible – gratias tibi agimus.
Thepresentbookisthesecondinaseriesofthreeeditedvolumesthatshow-
casecurrentresearchinRomanDeclamationundertheheading‘ReadingRoman
Declamation’.AvolumeonPs-QuintilianhasappearedwithDeGruyterin2016,
one on Seneca the Elder (OUP) will be published in 2018.
Wewouldalsoliketothanktheeditorsofthisseriesaswellastheeditorial
team at De Gruyter, Katharina Legutke and Mirko Vonderstein, for their swift,
kind and professional co-operation. Antonia Ruppel’s and Astrid Khoo’s astute
copy-editing has made life easier for all of us, many thanks to them. Astrid
Khoo has also kindly compiled the index locorum and the index rerum for this
volume.
Lastbutnotleast,weacknowledgewithgratitudeasignificantcontribution
towards the production costs of this volume by the Institut Universitaire de
France.
Martin T. Dinter (King’s College London)
CharlesGuérin(UniversitéParisEst-Créteil)
Marcos Martinho (University of São Paulo)
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Table of Contents
Martin T. Dinter and Charles Guérin
Introduction: Calpurnius – a postmodern author? 1
Jonathan E. Mannering
Declamation 2.0 – Reading Calpurnius ‘Whole’ 9
Lydia Spielberg
Non contenti exemplis saeculi vestri: Intertextuality and the Declamatory
Tradition in Calpurnius Flaccus 45
Catherine Schneider
(Re)lire la déclamation romaine: le Soldat de Marius par Calpurnius
Flaccus 77
Alfredo Casamento
Colorem timere peius quam sanguinem. Paintings, family strifeand
heroism 97
Andrea Balbo
Problems of Paremiography in Calpurnius Flaccus 113
Biagio Santorelli
Metrical and accentual clausulae as evidence for the date and origin of
Calpurnius Flaccus 129
Michael Winterbottom
The Editors of Calpurnius Flaccus 143
Bibliography 163
Subject Index 177
Index locorum 179
Martin T. Dinter and Charles Guérin
Introduction:
Calpurnius – a postmodern author?
Every generation of students has their particular frame of cultural reference of
which those teaching make frequent use. We will find that in a similar way
Roman declamation can relyon its audience’s awareness of itsgeneric conven-
tions: pirates, ghosts,evil stepmothers,blind sons andviolent tyrants people a
worldasweirdasitiswonderfulandprovideamplefodderforteachersofrhet-
oricandtheirstudents.Theydiscuss(inallseriousness)fictionalcourtcasesso
astoprovidetrainingtofuturelawyersanddisplayafireworkofrhetoricalskill.
When read sociologically, rhetorical education fosters social reproduction and
helps to shape a young man’s attitudes and behavior; it teaches him how to
be a Roman citizen. For he will train to navigate the Roman concept of patria
potestasthatgivesafatheroverbearinglegalpoweroverthemembersofhisfam-
ily;he willarguewith fictionaltyrants ratherthan question theauthorityofac-
tualemperorsandthusfindhisplaceinimperialhierarchy;hewilllearntosort
outthesocialmessthattransgressionssuchasrapecauseandabsorbthemoral
precepts and approved values of his peers. In addition, he will imbibe how to
reinforce the poor-rich and the slave-free divide through the examples Roman
declamation provides.¹ When read from this socio-political perspective we ob-
serve how Roman declamation turns Roman boys into Roman men.²
Whatismore,scholarshaverecentlylavishedtheirattentiononRomandec-
lamation’scontroversiae(mocklegalspeeches)andsuasoriae(mockspeechesof
advice,usuallytosomegreatman)andhaveallowedthesegenrestoleavetheir
neglected corners. Important studies by Gunderson (2003), Schröder (2003),
Berti (2007), Frazel (2009) and Bernstein (2013) have placed declamatio centre-
stage and illuminate social concepts such as authority, educational practices,
cultural context or Roman jurisdiction.³ A number of recent edited volumes
have enriched the field further: Amato, Citti and Huelsenbeck (2015) places its
focus on ethics and law in Greek and Roman declamation. Lentano (2015),
Poignault and Schneider (2016) as well as Casamento,van Mal-Maeder and Pa-
Corbeill(2007)77–81andBloomer(2007)298analyzedeclamations’mostcommonthemes.
Cf.Bloomer(2011)170–92.
ThejournalRhetoricahasdedicatedtwoissues(springandsummer1995)toQuintilian’soeuvre.
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setti (2016) which concentrates on Quintilian’s minor declamations and Dinter,
Guérin, Martinho (2016) showcase declamation as self-conscious literary
genre,similarlytothevolumeinhand.PreviouslyGleason(1996)hadsmoothed
the way for a recognition of rhetoric as the fashioning of the self, as a cultural
process that facilitates not merely gender definition – how to be a real man –
butalsoreinforcesclaims ofpaideia,Graecitas,Romanitas,and status.In addi-
tion, Beard (1993) ingeniously saw declamation as playing the role of myth in
earlierGreekculture,inthatitprovidesthesourceofstorytellingRomanculture,
and a space for the exercise of this culture’s imagination.
Naturally,whenplacedintoitssocio-historicalcontextthebodyofdeclama-
tionsthathascomedowntous(SenecatheElder,Ps.-QuintilianandCalpurnius
Flaccus) echoes its cultural, social and literarybackground.These texts arenot
independentandhavetobereadwithintheircontexts,butatthesametimethey
also constitute a genre on their own, the rhetorical and literary framework of
whichremainsnotyetfullyexplored.Itremainstobeasked:whatarethepoetics
of declamatio?
Asagenresituatedatthecrossroadofrhetoricandfiction,declamatiooffers
thefreedomandabilitytoexperimentnewformsofdiscourse,andcallsforboth
atechnicalandliteraryanalysis.Ifoneplacestheliterarinessofdeclamatiointo
thespotlight(vanMal-Maeder2007)–declamatiohasbeenhailedbyBloomeras
‘the first literary movement of the Roman empire’ (2007:297) – it becomespos-
sible to study it as a realm of genuine literarycreation with its own theoretical
underpinning, rather than simply reading it as a gratuitous exercise mimicking
the practice of real orators.
Of the three Roman authors whose declamations have survived,the corpus
ofQuintilianhasattractedthehighestdegreeofscholarlyattention.TheCassino
series of commentaries coordinatedby Antonio Stramaglia has almostcomplet-
editstasktoprovideacommentaryoneachofQuintilian’sMajorDeclamations.
In addition Santorelli has made accessible tous Håkanson’s previously unpub-
lished research on the Major Declamations and Santorelli, Stramaglia and Win-
terbottomareatpresentpreparinganewLoebeditionofthatverycorpus.⁴What
ismore,Lentanoiscurrentlypreparingaresearchreport(Forschungsbericht)for
Lustrumthatwillprovideadetailedoverviewofexistingsecondaryliterature.He
has also justpublished a‘profile’ of Roman declamationwhichmakesthe field
everthemoreaccessibletotheinterestedpublic.⁵SenecatheElderisequallyen-
joyingarevivalofinterestwithrecentpublicationsincludingthemonographsof
Håkanson(2014).
Lentano(2017).
