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

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Ebook Package English 2021
• MitwirkendeR: Acosta-Hughes, Benjamin,; Astrup Sundt, Peter,; Brecke, Iris,; D’Andrea, Paola,; Harrison, Stephen,; Ingleheart, Jennifer,; Kayachev, Boris,; Keith, Alison,; Palmore, Aaron,; Sharrock, Alison,; Thorsen, Thea S.,
• HerausgeberIn: Brecke, Iris,; Harrison, Stephen,; Thorsen, Thea S.,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2021]; ©2021
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (VIII, 267 p.)

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.

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