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Latin literary translation in the late Roman Republic
Translation has been a part of Latin literature since its beginning with the Odusia of Livius Andronicus. Throughout the late Roman Republic literary translators – those translators who aim at creating innovative pieces of literature rather than following their source texts verbatim – develop their art and a variety of techniques for appropriating Greek poetry. This study shows that each Latin literary translator draws on their predecessors and finds unique solutions to their individual problems. It demonstrates that each translator also adapts their source texts in different ways according to their periods, genres, styles, and purposes. It looks at the ancient terminology, theory, and practice of translation and shows that, while there is no consistent vocabulary or system of translation in Rome, literary translation is nevertheless highly-developed and subtle throughout the Republic. It examines the translations of the Preneoteric translators Quintus Lutatius Catulus and Gnaeus Matius, Cicero and Varro Atacinus, and Catullus
Catullus and Roman Dramatic Literature
This dissertation examines how Roman drama, and Roman Comedy in particular, informs the poetry of Catullus. It argues that Latin drama continued to play a significant role in Roman thought and literature after the second century BCE and offered a shared cultural vocabulary through which authors could communicate private ideas about love, friendship, and rivalry. It argues that many of Catullus's poems contain meaningful intertextual allusions to Roman Comedy whose presence contributes additional layers of complexity to his work. It also argues that reading Catullus with an eye towards theatricality and performativity reveals new ways in which his poetry can be understood, from both ancient and modern perspectives. Chapter One outlines evidence for ongoing interest in the Roman stage in the first century BCE, including scholarly and antiquarian study, large scale public performance, and private entertainment at aristocratic dinner parties and literary recitations. Chapter Two examines Catullus's engagement with Plautus and Terence in his erotic epigrams and argues that the Catullan speaker consistently invokes the figure of the young lover from Roman Comedy. It considers how early Latin epigrammatists like Q. Lutatius Catulus drew on the language and themes of comedy to modify Alexandrian epigram and argues that Catullus continued this tradition of blending drama and subjective poetry. It also explores how Catullus creates a unified speaker across separate poems through divided allusions to the opening of Terence's Eunuchus. Chapter Three examines how the Plautine servus callidus functions throughout Catullus's polymetrics in poems of erotic, social, and literary rivalry. It argues that Catullus alludes to stock routines from Plautus's comedies to ridicule traditional power structures and elevates Plautine malitia, Heroic Badness, as a vehicle for asserting dominance over others. Chapter Four approaches Catullus's poetry as literature for performance, studying how dramatic elements in his work can affect its reception, especially in the context of Roman convivia and recitationes. Using theater semiotics and reader response theory, it examines how poem 8 creates open spaces for readers to fill. It also argues that allusions to Roman Comedy in poem 8 create a palimpsestuous text that constantly shifts and enables multiple readings
Uncovering and Interpreting
Student projects: two upper-level, and two student solutions to the same project, the Bayer Stone Competition
Optically Active 4- and 5-Coordinate Transition Metal Complexes of Bifurcated Dipeptide Schiff Bases
Can Amphipathic Helices Influence the CNS Antinociceptive Activity of Glycopeptides Related to β‑Endorphin?
Glycosylated
β-endorphin
analogues of various amphipathicity were studied in vitro and in vivo
in mice. Opioid binding affinities of the O-linked glycopeptides (mono-
or disaccharides) and unglycosylated peptide controls were measured
in human receptors expressed in CHO cells. All were pan-agonists,
binding to μ-, δ-, or κ-opioid receptors in the
low nanomolar range (2.2–35 nM <i>K</i><sub>i</sub>’s). The glycoside moiety was required for intravenous (i.v.)
but not for intracerebroventricular (i.c.v.) activity. Circular dichroism
and NMR indicated the degree of helicity in H<sub>2</sub>O, aqueous
trifluoroethanol, or micelles. Glycosylation was essential for activity
after i.v. administration. It was possible to manipulate the degree
of helicity by the alteration of only two amino acid residues in the
helical <i>address</i> region of the β-endorphin analogues
without destroying μ-, δ-, or κ-agonism, but the
antinociceptive activity after i.v. administration could not be directly
correlated to the degree of helicity in micelles
Structural Requirements for CNS Active Opioid Glycopeptides
Glycopeptides
related to β-endorphin penetrate the blood–brain
barrier (BBB) of mice to produce antinociception. Two series of glycopeptides
were assessed for opioid receptor binding affinity. Attempts to alter
the mu-selectivity of [d-Ala<sup>2</sup>,<i>N</i>-MePhe<sup>4</sup>,Gly-ol<sup>5</sup>]Âenkephalin (DAMGO)-related
glycopeptides by altering the charged residues of the amphipathic
helical address were unsuccessful. A series of pan-agonists was evaluated
for antinociceptive activity (55 °C tail flick) in mice. A flexible
linker was required to maintain antinociceptive activity. Circular
dichroism (CD) in H<sub>2</sub>O, trifluoroethanol (TFE), and SDS
micelles confirmed the importance of the amphipathic helices (<b>11s</b> → <b>11sG</b> → <b>11</b>) for
antinociception. The glycosylated analogues showed only nascent helices
and random coil conformations in H<sub>2</sub>O. Chemical shift indices
(CSI) and nuclear Overhauser effects (NOE) with 600 MHz NMR and CD
confirmed helical structures in micelles, which were rationalized
by molecular dynamics calculations. Antinociceptive studies with mice
confirm that these glycosylated endorphin analogues are potential
drug candidates that penetrate the BBB to produce potent central effects