Eros, Imitation, and the Epic TraditionBarbara Pavlock here illuminates the significance of the erotic in the epic tradition from Alexandrian Greece to the late Renaissance by examining the transformations of two Homeric episodes, Odysseus' encounter with Nausikaa and the night-raid of Odysseus and Diomedes. Asserting that the erotic serves in the epic as a locus of criticism of social values, she traces adaptations in rhetorical devices, in larger structural patterns, and in major generic forms, as in the combination of tragic with epic models. |
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... Theseus for his failure in that sphere . Like the poet earlier , she refers to Theseus as immemor , a morally charged word that can mean " negligent " as well as simply “ forgetful . ” 29 More specifically , she attacks him for his lack ...
... Theseus for his failure in that sphere . Like the poet earlier , she refers to Theseus as immemor , a morally charged word that can mean " negligent " as well as simply “ forgetful . ” 29 More specifically , she attacks him for his lack ...
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... Theseus's absence , Ovid reduces the scope of the passion of Catullus's hero- ine . He has the young woman record , for example , precisely the way she groped for Theseus in her sleep : 37 Incertum vigilans , a somno languida , movi ...
... Theseus's absence , Ovid reduces the scope of the passion of Catullus's hero- ine . He has the young woman record , for example , precisely the way she groped for Theseus in her sleep : 37 Incertum vigilans , a somno languida , movi ...
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... Theseus and reinforces the sacredness of the virtues that preserve human social intercourse . The heroine of the epistle earlier referred to fides in a similar spirit . Re- proaching her lover for his perjury , she expressed the ...
... Theseus and reinforces the sacredness of the virtues that preserve human social intercourse . The heroine of the epistle earlier referred to fides in a similar spirit . Re- proaching her lover for his perjury , she expressed the ...
Contents
Apollonius and Homer | 19 |
Epic and Tragedy in Vergils Aeneid | 69 |
Ovids Ariadne and the Catullan Epyllion | 113 |
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