Greek and Latin Love The Poetic Connection 1st Edition by Thea Thorsen, Iris Brecke, Stephen Harrison 3110630591 9783110630596

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ISBN 10: 3110630591 

ISBN 13: 9783110630596

Author: Thea S. Thorsen, Iris Brecke, Stephen Harrison

It is often claimed that the kind of love that is variously deemed ‘romantic’ or ‘true’ did not exist in antiquity. Yet, ancient literature abounds with stories that seem to adhere precisely to this kind of love. This volume focuses on such literature and the concepts of love it espouses. The volume differs from and challenges much existing classical scholarship which has traditionally privileged the theme of sex over love and prose-genres over those of poetry. By conversely focusing on love and poetry, the present volume freshly explores central poets in ancient literature, such Homer, Sappho, Terence, Catullus, Virgil, Horace and Ovid, alongside less canonized, such as the anonymous poet of The Lament for Bion, Philodemus and Sulpicia. The chapters, which are written by world-leading as well as younger scholars, reveal that Greek and Latin concepts of love seem interconnected, that such love is as relevant for hetero- as homoerotic couples, and that such ideas of love follow the mainstream of poetry throughout antiquity. In addition to the general reader interested in the history of love, this volume is relevant for students and scholars of the ancient world and the poetic tradition.

Table of contents:

Love in ancient literature

Divides in scholarship

The homopoetic model of love

Concluding remarks

Benjamin Acosta-Hughes There Falls a Lone Tear: Longing for a Vanished Love – Tracing an Erotic Motif from Homer to Horace

Prelude

Longing for Patroclus

A tear for Heraclitus

Longing for a ‘lost’ poet on a sleepless night

Horace’s rara lacrima

Peter Astrup Sundt Orpheus and Sappho as Model Poets: Blurring Greek and Latin Love in Lament for Bion, Catullus 51, and Horace Odes 1.24

Introduction

Orpheus and pederastic overtones in the Lament for Bion

Gender- and sexual reorientation in Catullus 51: Catullus appropriating Sappho fr. 31 Voigt

Homoerotic overtones through Orpheus and Eurydice in Horace Odes 1.24

Conclusion

Alison Sharrock Amans et Egens and Exclusus Amator: The Connection (or not) between Comedy and Elegy

Iris Brecke Rape and Violence in Terence’s Eunuchus and Ovid’s Love Elegies

Introduction

The Eunuchus: rape at the centre of the action

Ars amatoria 1.89–134: an Ovidian rape-marriage plot?

Amores 3.6: rape, marriage and suicide?

Heroides 5: wife versus puella

Amores 1.7: violence, rape and status

Conclusion

Boris Kayachev Love and Poetry in Virgil’s Sixth Eclogue: A Platonic Perspective

The song of Silenus (Ecl. 6.31–81)

The prelude (Ecl. 6.13–30)

The initiation scene (Ecl. 6.64–73)

The prologue (Ecl. 6.1–12)

Conclusion

Paola D’Andrea Longum Bibebat Amorem: Virgilian Adaptation of Sympotic Poetry

Introduction

Epic and lyric in the Dido-episode

A lyric symposion at Carthage?

Aeneas as exiled lyric poet?

Conclusion

Alison Keith Philodemus and the Augustan Poets

Horace

Propertius

Ovid

Aaron Palmore Love and Politics in Horace’s Odes 4.10

The structure of Odes 4

The originality of Odes 4.10

Reading Odes 4.10

Some Lacanian concepts

Erotic and political in Odes 4.10

Jennifer Ingleheart Amores Plural: Ovidian Homoerotics in the Elegies

aut puer aut … puella

Tibullus and Tibullan homoerotics in Amores 3.9

si quis …: homoeroticism in the Ars amatoria

Conclusion

Thea S. Thorsen The Beloved: Figures and Words

Introduction

Figures

Words

The beloved: from both through two to the one and only

Conclusion

List of Contributors

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