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'Rhyming Back Into the Canon': An Anthology of Queer Roman Verse

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Lecture Humanities

Wed, Mar 6, 2024

12 PM – 1:20 PM EST (GMT-5)

Louis A. Simpson International Building, Room 144

Princeton, NJ 08544, United States

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This project brings together, for the first time, a representative selection of queer poetry from ancient Rome in line-for line verse translations both amusing and accessible to the non-specialist. Nearly all the most famous Latin poets dealt with same-sex subjects — in lyric poetry (Catullus, Horace), elegy (Propertius, Tibullus), and epic (Virgil, Ovid) — yet a tradition of homophobic scholarship and translation means that a book of this kind has only recently become conceivable. Using a variety of formal idioms inspired by the poems’ metrical and generic diversity, this anthology aims to give the reader a sense of what collections of classical poetry in translation might have been like had these works not been suppressed for centuries.
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Louis A. Simpson International Building, Room 144

Princeton, NJ 08544, United States

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Luke Soucy

C. Luke Soucy '19 is an administrator in the departments of Classics and French & Italian. His verse translation of Ovid's Metamorphoses was published last year by University of California Press; other writing, ranging from light verse to classical scholarship, has appeared in Arion, Light, The Classical Outlook, and on Poets.org. Queer, biracial, and vocally Minnesotan, Soucy is currently translating the Punica. He is twenty-six years old.


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