The Reception of Ancient Cyprus in Western Culture /

The Reception of Ancient Cyprus in Western Culture / / ed. by Stella Alekou, Stephen J. Harrison, Spyridon Tzounakas.

The reception of ancient Cyprus in the Western world has not received much attention in scholarship, despite the fact that significant literary and extra-literary evidence presented by European intellectuals and artists explicitly or implicitly refers to the history of Cyprus, as well as to the myth...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus DeG Package 2023 Part 1
MitwirkendeR:
Alekou, Stella,
Antoniadis, Theodore,
Aresi, Laura,
Casanova-Robin, Hélène,
Gibson, Bruce,
Harrison, Stephen,
Hogenmüller, Boris,
Jenkyns, Richard,
Kirstein, Robert,
Kitsou, Stamatia,
Neger, Margot,
Panayotakis, Costas,
Selliaas Thorsen, Thea,
Tzounakas, Spyridon,
HerausgeberIn:
Alekou, Stella,
Harrison, Stephen J.,
Tzounakas, Spyridon,
Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2022]
©2023
Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
Series:Trends in Classics - Supplementary Volumes , 139
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Physical Description:1 online resource (VIII, 314 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Preface and Acknowledgements
  • Contents
  • Introduction
  • Part I: Cyprus in Latin Literature
  • Cyprus and its Myths on the Roman Stage
  • Venus on Cyprus: Interlinked Lists of Aphrodite’s Cypriot Sanctuaries in Latin Poetry
  • Idalion, Satrachus and the Annales of Volusius: The Reception of Cyprus in the Carmina Catulli
  • Nil desperandum …. cras ingens iterabimus aequor (Hor. Carm. 1.7): The Foundation of Salamis by a Bastard Archer as an Exemplum in Latin Literature
  • Balance and Excess in Ovid’s Pygmalion Story
  • Was Cyprus Special? The Case of Two Latin Poets
  • Infamem nimio calore Cypron: Ancient Epigrams on Flacci in Cyprus
  • The Digression on Cyprus in Claudian’s Epithalamium de nuptiis Honorii et Mariae
  • Part II: Cyprus after Antiquity
  • Venus and Adonis from Enheduanna to Shakespeare: The Significance of Ovid’s Cypriot Metamorphoses
  • Pilgrims, Merchants and Lovers: The Island of Cyprus in Boccaccio’s Decameron (via Ovid’s Metamorphoses)
  • Venus of Paphos in the Latin Poetry of the Quattrocento
  • Ovid’s ‘Good’ Women: The Cypriot Exemplum Against the Background of the Statue (R)evolution
  • Osmosis between High Genres: Ovid’s Tragic Formation of Myrrha’s Tale (Met. 10.298–502) and its Reception in Alfieri’s Homonymous Tragedy
  • Travel, Classical Traditions and Empire: Western Travellers to Cyprus in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries
  • List of Contributors
  • General Index
  • Index Locorum

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