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Christopher Nappa

Florida State University, Classics (Faculty of Arts and Sciences), Faculty Member

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I am Professor of Classics at Florida State University. My interests include Latin and Greek literature, especially poetry; narrative; intertextuality; mythology; sexuality; and gender. In general, I am also interested in horror, the monstrous, and modern popular culture. My BA is from the University of Texas at Austin, and my MA and PhD are from the University of Virginia. Before Florida State , I also taught at the University of Minnesota, Smith College, and the University of Tennessee at Knoxville.
Supervisors: J. S.Clay
Address: 205 Dodd Hall
Florida State University
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Tallahassee, Florida 32906

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Gods and Mortals in Greek and Latin Poetry. Studies in Honor of Jenny Strauss Clay

by Lucia Athanassaki, Christopher Nappa, and Athanassios Vergados

Ariadne Supplement 2, 2018

Gods and Mortals in Greek and Latin Poetry is a tribute to Jenny Strauss Clay in recognition of h... more Gods and Mortals in Greek and Latin Poetry is a tribute to Jenny Strauss Clay in recognition of her scholarly achievements and of the guidance, inspiration, and friendship she has generously given to her students and colleagues over her long and distinguished career. The volume opens with Diane Svarlien’s English translation of Horace’s Odes 3. 27, Daniel Mendelsohn’s vivid memoir of Clay’s mentorship, and Ward Briggs’ biography and bibliography
. It continues with thirteen scholarly essays that respond to Clay’s main scholarly interests. Nancy Felson, Lucia Athanassaki, Zoe Stamatopoulou, David Kovacs, Athanassios Vergados, Thomas K. Hubbard, Anatole Mori, Benjamin Jasnow, Daniel Barber, Blanche Conger McCune, Stephen C. Smith, Christopher Nappa, and John F. Miller explore a wide range of aspects of the representation and interaction of gods and mortals in Greek and Latin poetry, topics to which Jenny Strauss Clay has repeatedly come back.

Making Men Ridiculous: Juvenal and the Anxieties of the Individual

Reading after Actium: Vergil's Georgics, Octavian, and Rome

Aspects of Catullus' Social Fiction

Papers by Christopher Nappa

Praetextati Mores": Juvenal's Second Satire

Hermes, 1998

... Juvenal: A Diptych, LCM 6.8, 1981, 203-08, M. ComEY, Roman Satire, 2nd ed., Bristol, 1989, 12... more

Gods and Mortals in Greek and Latin Poetry. Studies in Honor of Jenny Strauss Clay

Gods and Mortals in Greek and Latin Poetry is a tribute to Jenny Strauss Clay in recognition of h... more Gods and Mortals in Greek and Latin Poetry is a tribute to Jenny Strauss Clay in recognition of her scholarly achievements and of the guidance, inspiration, and friendship she has generously given to her students and colleagues over her long and distinguished career. The volume opens with Diane Svarlien’s English translation of Horace’s Odes 3. 27, Daniel Mendelsohn’s vivid memoir of Clay’s mentorship, and Ward Briggs’ biography and bibliography . It continues with thirteen scholarly essays that respond to Clay’s main scholarly interests. Nancy Felson, Lucia Athanassaki, Zoe Stamatopoulou, David Kovacs, Athanassios Vergados, Thomas K. Hubbard, Anatole Mori, Benjamin Jasnow, Daniel Barber, Blanche Conger McCune, Stephen C. Smith, Christopher Nappa, and John F. Miller explore a wide range of aspects of the representation and interaction of gods and mortals in Greek and Latin poetry, topics to which Jenny Strauss Clay has repeatedly come back.

Naming June: Cult, Intertextual Competition and Augustan Politics in Ovid’s Fasti 6

Classical Journal

Oxford Bibliographies Online Datasets, 2000

Little is known with certainty about the life of Juvenal, despite the existence of part of an anc... more Little is known with certainty about the life of Juvenal, despite the existence of part of an ancient biography. He appears to have been born late in the reign of Nero and to have lived until at least 127 ce (during the reign of Hadrian). Fifteen complete poems and one fragment are extant. These are grouped into five books. Book 1 comprises Satires 1–5 on various topics; Book 2 consists of only Satire 6, by far Juvenal’s longest poem, a rant on the evils of marriage and female behavior. The keynote of both books is indignatio, “outrage.” Book 3, in a more measured tone, consists of poems 7–9, again on various topics. It appears to date from the reign of Hadrian. Book 4 contains Satires 10–12; the tone is again more measured and philosophical than in the early books, but the depth of Juvenal’s philosophy is questionable. The final book includes Satires 13–15 in their entirety, and sixty lines of a sixteenth poem. Poems 15 and 16 in particular mark a partial return to the outraged sty...

Mnemosyne

Making Men Ridiculous

The man and the mask : persona, character, and technique in the poems of Catullus

The goat, the gout, and the girl: Catullus 69, 71, and 77: Catullus 69, 71, and 77

Mnemosyne a Journal of Classical Studies, 1999

Agamemnon 717-36: The parable of the lion cub.: The parable of the lion cub

Mnemosyne a Journal of Classical Studies, 1994

DIE ALTE WEISE R. Cramer: Vergils Weltsicht: Optimismus und Pessimismus in Vergils Georgica. Pp. xii + 309. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 1998. Cloth, DM 198. ISBN: 3-11-015728-4

Classical Review, 2000

Power and Eroticism in Imperial Rome by Caroline Vout

Phoenix, 2010

Christopher Nappa - Elegy on the Threshold: Generic Self-Consciousness in Propertius 1.16 - Classical World 101:1

Reading after Actium

Callimachus' Aeita and Aeneas' Sicily

Classical Quarterly, 2004

The Unfortunate Marriage Of Gaius Silius: Tacitus And Juvenal On The Fall Of Messalina

Latin Historiography and Poetry in the Early Empire, 2010

A Companion to Greek and Roman Sexualities. Edited by Thomas K.Hubbard. Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell, 2014. Pp. xxv + 651; plates. Cloth, $195.00

Religious Studies Review, 2015

Gods and Mortals in Greek and Latin Poetry. Studies in Honor of Jenny Strauss Clay

by Lucia Athanassaki, Christopher Nappa, and Athanassios Vergados

Ariadne Supplement 2, 2018

Gods and Mortals in Greek and Latin Poetry is a tribute to Jenny Strauss Clay in recognition of h... more Gods and Mortals in Greek and Latin Poetry is a tribute to Jenny Strauss Clay in recognition of her scholarly achievements and of the guidance, inspiration, and friendship she has generously given to her students and colleagues over her long and distinguished career. The volume opens with Diane Svarlien’s English translation of Horace’s Odes 3. 27, Daniel Mendelsohn’s vivid memoir of Clay’s mentorship, and Ward Briggs’ biography and bibliography
. It continues with thirteen scholarly essays that respond to Clay’s main scholarly interests. Nancy Felson, Lucia Athanassaki, Zoe Stamatopoulou, David Kovacs, Athanassios Vergados, Thomas K. Hubbard, Anatole Mori, Benjamin Jasnow, Daniel Barber, Blanche Conger McCune, Stephen C. Smith, Christopher Nappa, and John F. Miller explore a wide range of aspects of the representation and interaction of gods and mortals in Greek and Latin poetry, topics to which Jenny Strauss Clay has repeatedly come back.

Making Men Ridiculous: Juvenal and the Anxieties of the Individual

Reading after Actium: Vergil's Georgics, Octavian, and Rome

Aspects of Catullus' Social Fiction

Praetextati Mores": Juvenal's Second Satire

Hermes, 1998

... Juvenal: A Diptych, LCM 6.8, 1981, 203-08, M. ComEY, Roman Satire, 2nd ed., Bristol, 1989, 12... more

Gods and Mortals in Greek and Latin Poetry. Studies in Honor of Jenny Strauss Clay

Gods and Mortals in Greek and Latin Poetry is a tribute to Jenny Strauss Clay in recognition of h... more Gods and Mortals in Greek and Latin Poetry is a tribute to Jenny Strauss Clay in recognition of her scholarly achievements and of the guidance, inspiration, and friendship she has generously given to her students and colleagues over her long and distinguished career. The volume opens with Diane Svarlien’s English translation of Horace’s Odes 3. 27, Daniel Mendelsohn’s vivid memoir of Clay’s mentorship, and Ward Briggs’ biography and bibliography . It continues with thirteen scholarly essays that respond to Clay’s main scholarly interests. Nancy Felson, Lucia Athanassaki, Zoe Stamatopoulou, David Kovacs, Athanassios Vergados, Thomas K. Hubbard, Anatole Mori, Benjamin Jasnow, Daniel Barber, Blanche Conger McCune, Stephen C. Smith, Christopher Nappa, and John F. Miller explore a wide range of aspects of the representation and interaction of gods and mortals in Greek and Latin poetry, topics to which Jenny Strauss Clay has repeatedly come back.

Naming June: Cult, Intertextual Competition and Augustan Politics in Ovid’s Fasti 6

Classical Journal

Oxford Bibliographies Online Datasets, 2000

Little is known with certainty about the life of Juvenal, despite the existence of part of an anc... more Little is known with certainty about the life of Juvenal, despite the existence of part of an ancient biography. He appears to have been born late in the reign of Nero and to have lived until at least 127 ce (during the reign of Hadrian). Fifteen complete poems and one fragment are extant. These are grouped into five books. Book 1 comprises Satires 1–5 on various topics; Book 2 consists of only Satire 6, by far Juvenal’s longest poem, a rant on the evils of marriage and female behavior. The keynote of both books is indignatio, “outrage.” Book 3, in a more measured tone, consists of poems 7–9, again on various topics. It appears to date from the reign of Hadrian. Book 4 contains Satires 10–12; the tone is again more measured and philosophical than in the early books, but the depth of Juvenal’s philosophy is questionable. The final book includes Satires 13–15 in their entirety, and sixty lines of a sixteenth poem. Poems 15 and 16 in particular mark a partial return to the outraged sty...

Mnemosyne

Making Men Ridiculous

The man and the mask : persona, character, and technique in the poems of Catullus

The goat, the gout, and the girl: Catullus 69, 71, and 77: Catullus 69, 71, and 77

Mnemosyne a Journal of Classical Studies, 1999

Agamemnon 717-36: The parable of the lion cub.: The parable of the lion cub

Mnemosyne a Journal of Classical Studies, 1994

DIE ALTE WEISE R. Cramer: Vergils Weltsicht: Optimismus und Pessimismus in Vergils Georgica. Pp. xii + 309. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 1998. Cloth, DM 198. ISBN: 3-11-015728-4

Classical Review, 2000

Power and Eroticism in Imperial Rome by Caroline Vout

Phoenix, 2010

Christopher Nappa - Elegy on the Threshold: Generic Self-Consciousness in Propertius 1.16 - Classical World 101:1

Reading after Actium

Callimachus' Aeita and Aeneas' Sicily

Classical Quarterly, 2004

The Unfortunate Marriage Of Gaius Silius: Tacitus And Juvenal On The Fall Of Messalina

Latin Historiography and Poetry in the Early Empire, 2010

A Companion to Greek and Roman Sexualities. Edited by Thomas K.Hubbard. Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell, 2014. Pp. xxv + 651; plates. Cloth, $195.00

Religious Studies Review, 2015

Unmarried Dido: Aeneid 4.550-52

Hermes, 2007

... For good surveys of opinions up through the first third of the twentieth century, see C. Busc... more

A Companion to Persius and Juvenal. Edited by SusannaBraund and JosiahOsgood. Blackwell Companions to the Ancient World. Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell, 2012. Pp. xvi + 612. Cloth, $195.00

Religious Studies Review, 2013

Num te leaena: Catullus 60

Phoenix, 2003

NUM TELEAENA: CATULLUS 60 Christopher Nappa Num te leaena montions Libystinis ¡tut Scylla latrans... more

Elegy on the Threshold: Generic Self-Consciousness in Propertius 1.16

Classical World, 2007

Review of Kiss, Catullus Online

classicalstudies.org (Society for Classical Studies), 2017

Review of Hubbard, A Companion to Greek and Roman Sexualities

Religious Studies Review, 2015

Review of Pieri, Intacti saltus: Studi sul III libro delle Georgiche

Gnomon, 2015

Review of Braund and Osgood, A Companion to Persius and Juvenal

Religious Studies Review, 2013

Review of Vout, Power and Eroticism in Imperial Rome

Phoenix, 2011

Review of Keane, Figuring Genre in Roman Satire

New England Classical Journal, 2006

Review of Smith, The Primacy of Vision in Virgil's Aeneid.pdf

Vergilius, 2006

Review of Bartman, Erotic Love Poems of Greece and Rome

Classical Bulletin, 2006

Review of Hurley, Catullus

Bryn Mawr Classical Review, 2005

Review of Cramer, Vergils Weltsicht: Optimismus und Pessimismus in Vergils Georgica

Classical Review, 2000

JSTOR is a not-for-profit service that helps scholars, researchers, and students discover, use, a... more JSTOR is a not-for-profit service that helps scholars, researchers, and students discover, use, and build upon a wide range of content in a trusted digital archive. We use information technology and tools to increase productivity and facilitate new forms of scholarship. For more information about JSTOR, please contact [email protected].

Review of Obermayer, Martial und der Diskurs über männliche “Homosexualität"

Classical Review, 1999

JSTOR is a not-for-profit service that helps scholars, researchers, and students discover, use, a... more JSTOR is a not-for-profit service that helps scholars, researchers, and students discover, use, and build upon a wide range of content in a trusted digital archive. We use information technology and tools to increase productivity and facilitate new forms of scholarship. For more information about JSTOR, please contact [email protected].

Review of Hinds, Allusion and Intertext: The Dynamics of Appropriation in Roman Poetry

Bryn Mawr Classical Review, 1998

Review of Petrini, The Child and the Hero: Coming of Age in Catullus and Vergil

Bryn Mawr Classical Review, 1998

Review of Fitzgerald, Catullan Provocations

The Classical Journal, 1997

JSTOR is a not-for-profit service that helps scholars, researchers, and students discover, use, a... more JSTOR is a not-for-profit service that helps scholars, researchers, and students discover, use, and build upon a wide range of content in a trusted digital archive. We use information technology and tools to increase productivity and facilitate new forms of scholarship. For more information about JSTOR, please contact [email protected].

Review of Slavitt, Virgil

The Classical Journal, 1993

JSTOR is a not-for-profit service that helps scholars, researchers, and students discover, use, a... more JSTOR is a not-for-profit service that helps scholars, researchers, and students discover, use, and build upon a wide range of content in a trusted digital archive. We use information technology and tools to increase productivity and facilitate new forms of scholarship. For more information about JSTOR, please contact [email protected].