The Anti-Oedipus: Strella and a Queer Re-imagining of the Tragic Family
By Lynn Kozak
ὅταν δ᾽ ἐν ταῖς φιλίαις ἐγγένηται τὰ πάθη, οἷον ἢ ἀδελφὸς ἀδελφὸν ἢ υἱὸς πατέρα ἢ μήτηρ υἱὸν ἢ υἱὸς μητέρα ἀποκτείνῃ ἢ μέλλῃ ἤ τι ἄλλοτοιοῦτον δρᾷ, ταῦτα ζητητέον. –Aristotle, Poetics 1453b
Aurelio G. Amatucci’s Codex Fori Mussolini and the Prospective Memory of Italian Fascism
By Bettina Reitz-Joosse
In this paper I argue that an all but forgotten Latin text from the 1930s which lies entombed in the base of a marble obelisk in Rome significantly advances our understanding of the ways in which Italian fascism appropriated Roman antiquity in order to manage its own future reception.
Mortal Heroes: Homeric Themes and Classical Allusions in Sidney Nolan’s ‘Gallipoli Series’
By Sarah Midford
On the 25th April 1915 soldiers from Australia and New Zealand (Anzacs) landed at Gallipoli and this landscape, just across the Dardanelles from the mythological site of the Trojan War, came to occupy the collective Australian imagination as a mythological place of national origin. When talking about his ‘Gallipoli Series’ in 1978, the Australian artist Sidney Nolan said that ‘there is a kind of grandeur … natural about Homer one can feel is related to Anzac’ (Page-Nolan interview, 1978: 5).
Latin, Greek, and Other Classical Nonsense in the Work of Edward Lear
By Marian Makins
The nonsense poetry of Edward Lear contains a wealth of classical material, both straightforward allusions and words patterned on, or even masquerading as, Latin or classical Greek. This paper explores the relationship between Lear’s use of classical material and his unorthodox educational background.