Greek and Latin Love: The Poetic Connection

Published by De Gruyter 2021

Greek and Latin Love

The Poetic Connection

Edited by: Thea S. Thorsen , Iris Brecke and Stephen Harrison

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110633030

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About this book

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.

Author / Editor information

T. S. Thorsen and I. Brecke, NTNU, Trondheim, Norway; S. Harrison, Corpus Christi College, Oxford, UK.

Reviews

"The editors are to be commended for producing an extremely useful book that will serve as an indispensable reference point for future research on Greek and Latin love and will further stimulate scholarly interest in this fundamental and fascinating subject." A. N. Michalopoulos, The Classical Review (2022) 1–3.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	I
Preface Publicly Available Download PDF	V
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	VII
Introducing Greek and Latin Love: The Poetic Connection Thea S. Thorsen, Iris Brecke and Stephen Harrison Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Love: Ancient and Later Representations Thea S. Thorsen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	7
There Falls a Lone Tear: Longing for a Vanished Love – Tracing an Erotic Motif from Homer to Horace Benjamin Acosta-Hughes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	29
Orpheus and Sappho as Model Poets: Blurring Greek and Latin Love in Lament for Bion, Catullus 51, and Horace Odes 1.24 Peter Astrup Sundt Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	39
Amans et Egens and Exclusus Amator: The Connection (or not) between Comedy and Elegy Alison Sharrock Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	59
Rape and Violence in Terence’s Eunuchus and Ovid’s Love Elegies Iris Brecke Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	83
Love and Poetry in Virgil’s Sixth Eclogue: A Platonic Perspective Boris Kayachev Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	105
Longum Bibebat Amorem: Virgilian Adaptation of Sympotic Poetry Paola D’Andrea Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	125
Philodemus and the Augustan Poets Alison Keith Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	145
Love and Politics in Horace’s Odes 4.10 Aaron Palmore Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	167
Amores Plural: Ovidian Homoerotics in the Elegies Jennifer Ingleheart Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	185
The Beloved: Figures and Words Thea S. Thorsen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	213
List of Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	231
Bibliography Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	233
Index Locorum Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	255
Index Rerum Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	261

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter
Audience: Scholars of Classics, Reception Studies, Comparative Literature and Emotion Studies.
Pages
- Front matter: 8
- Main content: 267
Keywords: Love; hetero- and homoerotic; Greek and Latin; poetry

eBook

Published: September 7, 2021
ISBN: 9783110633030

Hardcover

Published: September 7, 2021
ISBN: 9783110630596

Paperback

Published: May 8, 2023
ISBN: 9783111255798