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Greek and Latin Love : the Poetic Connection / edited by Thea S. Thorsen, Stephen Harrison, Iris Brecke.

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...

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Online Access: Full Text (via EBSCO)
Other Authors: Acosta-Hughes, Benjamin (Contributor), Astrup Sundt, Peter (Contributor), Brecke, Iris (Contributor, Editor), D'Andrea, Paola (Contributor), Harrison, Stephen (Contributor, Editor), Ingleheart, Jennifer (Contributor), Kayachev, Boris (Contributor), Keith, Alison (Contributor), Palmore, Aaron (Contributor), Sharrock, Alison (Contributor), Thorsen, Thea S. (Contributor, Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, [2021]
Subjects:
Classical poetry > History and criticism.
Classical poetry.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Preface
  • Contents
  • Introducing Greek and Latin Love: The Poetic Connection
  • Love: Ancient and Later Representations
  • There Falls a Lone Tear: Longing for a Vanished Love
  • Tracing an Erotic Motif from Homer to Horace
  • Orpheus and Sappho as Model Poets: Blurring Greek and Latin Love in Lament for Bion, Catullus 51, and Horace Odes 1.24
  • Amans et Egens and Exclusus Amator: The Connection (or not) between Comedy and Elegy
  • Rape and Violence in Terence's Eunuchus and Ovid's Love Elegies
  • Love and Poetry in Virgil's Sixth Eclogue: A Platonic Perspective
  • Longum Bibebat Amorem: Virgilian Adaptation of Sympotic Poetry
  • Philodemus and the Augustan Poets
  • Love and Politics in Horace's Odes 4.10
  • Amores Plural: Ovidian Homoerotics in the Elegies
  • The Beloved: Figures and Words
  • List of Contributors
  • Bibliography
  • Index Locorum
  • Index Rerum.

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