Eros and Ritual in Ancient Literature : : Singing of Atalanta, Daphnis, and Orpheus / / Evangelia Anagnostou-Laoutides.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Gorgias Press Backlist eBook-Package 2001-2013
• VerfasserIn: Anagnostou-Laoutides, Evangelia,
• Place / Publishing House: Piscataway, NJ : : Gorgias Press, , [2013]; ©2013
• Year of Publication: 2013
• Language: English
• Series: Gorgias Studies in Classical and Late Antiquity
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (610 p.)

This book examines popular erotic myths with regard to their origins and literary treatment throughout antiquity. The relation of ritual to certain mythic patterns that reflect initiation rites is also considered. These myths reinforce the association between cult and mythology in literature. Initiation patterns were employed as literary metaphors for falling in love or even for holding a philosophical argument on human progress. The myths are chosen in order to form a narrative sequence, but also as an example of how mythic patterns can be variously manipulated in literature.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- CHAPTER ONE. THE MYTH OF ATALANTA IN ANTIQUITY -- CHAPTER TWO. THEOCRITUS 1.1: THE MYTH OF DAPHNIS -- CHAPTER THREE. THE PASTORALS OF VERGIL―ECLOGUES AND THE GEORGICS -- CHAPTER FOUR. POETRY AND VERGIL -- CHAPTER FIVE. ARISTAEUS AND ORPHEUS IN GEORGICS FOUR -- CONCLUSION -- APPENDIX I -- APPENDIX II -- APPENDIX III -- APPENDIX IV -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX