Research Catalog

Title

Greek and Latin love : the poetic connection / edited by Thea S. Thorsen, Iris Brecke, and Stephen Harrison.

Publication

• Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, [2021]
• ©2021

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Details

Additional Authors

• Thorsen, Thea Selliaas
• Brecke, Iris
• Harrison, Stephen

Description

viii, 267 pages; 24 cm

Summary

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.

Subject

• Classical poetry > History and criticism
• Love in literature
• Literature, Ancient > History and criticism
• Literature, Ancient
• Classical poetry

Genre/Form

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Note

• "This volume arises from a conference entitled Greek and Roman literature : the erotic connection which was held at Corpus Christi College, Oxford, on 11th June, 2016 ... it includes most of the papers from the event plus a number which were subsequently commissioned."--Preface, page v

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-253) and indexes.

Contents

Introducing Greek and Latin love : the poetic connection / Thea S. Thorsen, Iris Brecke and Stephen Harrison -- Love : ancient and later representations / Thea S. Thorsen -- There falls a lone tear : longing for a vanished love : tracing an erotic motif from Homer to Horace / Benjamin Acosta-Hughes -- 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 -- Amans et egens and Exclusus amator : the connection (or not) between comedy and elegy / Alison Sharrock -- Rape and violence in Terence's Eunuchus and Ovid's love elegies / Iris Brecke -- Love and poetry in Virgil's sixth eclogue : a Platonic perspective / Boris Kayachev -- Longum bibebat amorem : Virgilian adaptation of sympotic poetry / Paola D'Andrea -- Philodemus and the Augustan poets / Alison Keith -- Love and politics in Horace's Odes 4.10 / Aaron Palmore -- Amores plural : Ovidian homoerotics in the elegies / Jennifer Ingleheart -- The beloved : figures and words / Thea S. Thorsen.

Call Number

JFE 22-3805

ISBN

• 3110630591
• 9783110630596

LCCN

2021939452

OCLC

1249799146

Title

Greek and Latin love : the poetic connection / edited by Thea S. Thorsen, Iris Brecke, and Stephen Harrison.

Publisher

Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, [2021]

Copyright Date

©2021

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-253) and indexes.

Added Author

Thorsen, Thea Selliaas, editor.

Brecke, Iris, editor.

Harrison, Stephen, editor.

Other Form:

Online version : Greek and Latin love. Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, [2021] 9783110633030 (OCoLC)1266228829

Research Call Number

JFE 22-3805