Negotiating a neologism in Catullus 64. Is ‘nutrices’ a point of ingress into a world of myth (and art), an intertextual trigger, a distraction cloaking a temporal and thematic shift, a narrative device utilising the male gaze? All these and more?
A return to allusive space. Fallible memory and fictional memory. Tracking weavers of text and following poetic threads in Ovid’s Metamorphoses; from the daughters of Minyas to the Fates, from Rome to Alexandria and back again.
Once upon a time in the wilds of Babylon, Thisbe saw a lion. But I saw three… An exploration of allusive space and what lurks within: Ovidian lions mixing with Theocritean lions merging with Catullan lions. How many intertexts make a pride?