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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... recalls the descriptions of Achilles in the Iliad . Homer uses the astral image when Achilles is arming as the ... recall its background in the Iliad ( 2.87–90 ) , where the Greek troops assemble for a political purpose in response to ...
... recalls the descriptions of Achilles in the Iliad . Homer uses the astral image when Achilles is arming as the ... recall its background in the Iliad ( 2.87–90 ) , where the Greek troops assemble for a political purpose in response to ...
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... recalls the hero's role in her plight : Dextera crudelis , quae me fratremque necavit , Et data poscenti , nomen inane , fides . In me iurarunt somnus ventusque fidesque . ( 115–17 ) Cruel right hand , which killed my brother and me ...
... recalls the hero's role in her plight : Dextera crudelis , quae me fratremque necavit , Et data poscenti , nomen inane , fides . In me iurarunt somnus ventusque fidesque . ( 115–17 ) Cruel right hand , which killed my brother and me ...
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... recall the ill - fated relationship between the hero and the Carthagi- nian queen . And as Eve resembles but also ... recalls the Roman hero . After learning that the serpent persuaded her to taste the apple and that she has found the ...
... recall the ill - fated relationship between the hero and the Carthagi- nian queen . And as Eve resembles but also ... recalls the Roman hero . After learning that the serpent persuaded her to taste the apple and that she has found the ...
Contents
Apollonius and Homer | 19 |
Epic and Tragedy in Vergils Aeneid | 69 |
Ovids Ariadne and the Catullan Epyllion | 113 |
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