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Burning up, melting down, collapsing in: Fire imagery, narrative articulation, funerals, and the incestuous poetics of Statius' Thebaid (2023)
Book Chapter
Lovatt, H. (2023). Burning up, melting down, collapsing in: Fire imagery, narrative articulation, funerals, and the incestuous poetics of Statius' Thebaid. In A. Roumpou (Ed.), Ritual and the Poetics of Closure in Flavian Literature (135-160). Berlin: De Gruyter. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110770483-009

This chapter explores fire imagery in Statius’ Thebaid, its relationship to ritual and narrative articulation. Fire is often involved in Roman ritual, associated with catastrophic destruction alongside purification and release. The Thebaid’s complex... Read More about Burning up, melting down, collapsing in: Fire imagery, narrative articulation, funerals, and the incestuous poetics of Statius' Thebaid.

Resurrecting the Argo: Supernatural Re-makings in Robert Holdstock’s Merlin Codex (2023)
Journal Article
LOVATT, H. (2023). Resurrecting the Argo: Supernatural Re-makings in Robert Holdstock’s Merlin Codex. Thersites, 17, 55-95. https://doi.org/10.34679/thersites.vol17.254

This paper analyses the relationship between the figure of the Argo (ship and character) and the supernatural in the mythic fantasy of Robert Holdstock’s Merlin Codex. It shows how Holdstock’s re-writing of the Argonautica draws on various versions f... Read More about Resurrecting the Argo: Supernatural Re-makings in Robert Holdstock’s Merlin Codex.

Nonnus’ Phaethon, Ovid, and Flavian Intertextuality (2022)
Book Chapter
LOVATT, H. (2022). Nonnus’ Phaethon, Ovid, and Flavian Intertextuality. In K. Carvounis, S. Papaioannou, & G. Scafoglio (Eds.), Later Greek Epic and the Latin Literary Tradition (179-206). De Gruyter. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110791907-009

This chapter explores the methodological case for reading Greek Imperial epic alongside and in conjunction with Latin epic, by revisiting one of the best-known examples, the case of the story of Phaethon in Ovid and Nonnus. Since Knox’s article, the... Read More about Nonnus’ Phaethon, Ovid, and Flavian Intertextuality.

Hungry and Hopeful: Greek Myths and Children of the Future in Mike Carey’s Melanie Stories (2022)
Book Chapter
Lovatt, H. (2022). Hungry and Hopeful: Greek Myths and Children of the Future in Mike Carey’s Melanie Stories. In K. Marciniak (Ed.), . Warsaw University Press. https://doi.org/10.31338/uw.9788323552888.pp.491-510

A girl holds the key to the future of mankind: she has to choose between sacrificing herself and creating a new human race. In one version she is Iphigenia, in another Pandora. Mike Carey (or M. R. Carey) has now produced three versions of this story... Read More about Hungry and Hopeful: Greek Myths and Children of the Future in Mike Carey’s Melanie Stories.

Metalepsis, Grief, and Narrative in Aeneid 2 (2020)
Book Chapter
LOVATT, H. (2020). Metalepsis, Grief, and Narrative in Aeneid 2. In G. Trimble, & S. Matzner (Eds.), Breaking and Entering: Metalepsis in Classical Literature. Oxford University Press

Faith in Fate: Plot, Gods, and Metapoetic Morality in Valerius Flaccus (2019)
Book Chapter
LOVATT, H. (2019). Faith in Fate: Plot, Gods, and Metapoetic Morality in Valerius Flaccus. In A. Augoustakis, E. Buckley, & C. Stocks (Eds.), Fides in Flavian Literature (85-108). University of Toronto Press

This paper examines fides as a literary term, and asks how metaliterary faith fits in with morality, intertextuality and trust in the gods. It begins by examining the phrase nec vana fides in situations related to prophecy and belief in the gods, inc... Read More about Faith in Fate: Plot, Gods, and Metapoetic Morality in Valerius Flaccus.

Apollonius Rhodius Argonautica 4 and the epic gaze: There and back again (2018)
Book Chapter
Lovatt, H. (2018). Apollonius Rhodius Argonautica 4 and the epic gaze: There and back again. In A. Kampakoglou, & A. Novokhatko (Eds.), Gaze, vision and visuality in ancient Greek literature (88-112). De Gruyter. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110571288-005

The visuality of Apollonius Argonautica is complex and fascinating, and important for understanding that of later Greek and Roman epic. The Argonautica features in The Epic Gaze as the epic that wouldn't, a refusenik of the epic genre, a counterexamp... Read More about Apollonius Rhodius Argonautica 4 and the epic gaze: There and back again.

Classical Reception and Children's Literature: Greece, Rome and Childhood Transformation (2018)
Book
Hodkinson, O., & Lovatt, H. (Eds.). (2018). Classical Reception and Children's Literature: Greece, Rome and Childhood Transformation. I.B. Tauris

This volume presents research on the reception of the Classical world in children's literature, from the nineteenth century to the present day. It brings together contributions from scholars in Classics, English, History of Art and Education to discu... Read More about Classical Reception and Children's Literature: Greece, Rome and Childhood Transformation.

The beautiful face of war: refreshing epic and reworking Homer in Flavian poetry (2017)
Book Chapter
Lovatt, H. (2017). The beautiful face of war: refreshing epic and reworking Homer in Flavian poetry. In F. Bessone, & M. Fucecchi (Eds.), The literary genres in the Flavian Age: canons, transformations, reception. De Gruyter

At Statius Thebaid 8.342-427 the second day of fighting begins, after Amphiaraus is swallowed up by the earth. Although this is far from being the beginning of the poem, not even the beginning of the fighting, Statius in this passage creates an image... Read More about The beautiful face of war: refreshing epic and reworking Homer in Flavian poetry.