Eros at Dusk
Journal Data
| Type | SOURCE_BOOK |
|---|---|
| Publisher | Oxford University Press, Incorporated |
| ISBN-13 | 9780190869090 |
| Open Library | OL21161990W |
| Total publications | 5 |
| Coverage period | 2018 - 2018 |
| Language | EN |
| Cited by | 3 |
| h-index | 1 |
This book analyzes the relationship between wedding poetry and love poetry in the ancient world. By treating both Greek and Latin texts, it offers an innovative and wide-ranging discussion of the poetic representation of social occasions. The discourses associated with weddings and love affairs both foreground ideas of persuasion and praise even though they differ dramatically in their participants and their outcomes. Furthermore, these texts make it clear that the brief, idealized, and eroticized moment of the wedding stands in contrast to the long-lasting and harmonious agreement of the marriage. At times, these genres share traditional forms of erotic persuasion, but at other points, one genre purposefully alludes to the other to make a bride seem like a girlfriend or a girlfriend like a bride. Explicit divergences remind the audience of the different trajectories of the wedding, which will hopefully transition into a stable marriage, and the love affair, which is unlikely to endure with mutual affection. Important themes include the threshold; the evening star; plant and animal metaphors; heroic comparisons; reciprocity and the blessings of the gods; and sexual violence and persuasion. The consistency and durability of this intergeneric relationship demonstrates deep-seated conceptions of legitimate and illegitimate sexual relationships
Conclusion
The conclusion opens with a demonstration of the shared vocabulary of weddings and seduction in the Homeric Hymn to Aphrodite . In this poem, Aphrodite seduces Anchises by pretending to be a bride. The hymn serves to introduce two categories central to the argument of this book: poetic interaction and cultural frameworks. This chapter summarizes the main arguments of the book by first demonstrating the divergent narrative forms of wedding poetry …
Catullan Women on the Threshold
This chapter demonstates that Catullus 61, a wedding poem, and Catullus 68, an account of an extramarital rendezvous, are best read in tandem. Both revolve around a woman who crosses over a threshold. In Catullus 61, the woman is a bride, but in Catullus 68, she is the speaker’s mistress. Other points of overlap include the presiding deities Cupid and Hymenaeus, specific lexical choices, terminology of licit and illicit laps, and the women’s spat…
Persuasive Violence
This chapter discusses the connection between sexual violence and persuasion, first by identifying a grouping of similar poems that narrate female defloration. Defloration poems displace accounts of violence onto female narrators and downplay them in the voices of the official (male) narrators. Such accounts are found in both wedding and erotic poetry, indicating a point of cultural overlap. Physical force does appear as eroticized titillation in…
Allusive Superstars
The evening star and its counterpart, the morning star, play important roles as generic markers in wedding poetry and love poetry. Poetic appearances of the stars commonly allude to at least one previous example, creating a chain of literary references across antiquity. These stars exert a powerful influence on human activities. In weddings, the evening star brings the bride to the groom, separates her from her family, and arouses mixed emotions …
Eros at Dusk
This book analyzes the relationship between wedding poetry and love poetry in the ancient world. By treating both Greek and Latin texts, it offers an innovative and wide-ranging discussion of the poetic representation of social occasions. The discourses associated with weddings and love affairs both foreground ideas of persuasion and praise even though they differ dramatically in their participants and their outcomes. Furthermore, these texts mak…
Eros at Dusk
This book analyzes the relationship between wedding poetry and love poetry in the ancient world. By treating both Greek and Latin texts, it offers an innovative and wide-ranging discussion of the poetic representation of social occasions. The discourses associated with weddings and love affairs both foreground ideas of persuasion and praise even though they differ dramatically in their participants and their outcomes. Furthermore, these texts mak…
Conclusion
The conclusion opens with a demonstration of the shared vocabulary of weddings and seduction in the Homeric Hymn to Aphrodite . In this poem, Aphrodite seduces Anchises by pretending to be a bride. The hymn serves to introduce two categories central to the argument of this book: poetic interaction and cultural frameworks. This chapter summarizes the main arguments of the book by first demonstrating the divergent narrative forms of wedding poetry …
Catullan Women on the Threshold
This chapter demonstates that Catullus 61, a wedding poem, and Catullus 68, an account of an extramarital rendezvous, are best read in tandem. Both revolve around a woman who crosses over a threshold. In Catullus 61, the woman is a bride, but in Catullus 68, she is the speaker’s mistress. Other points of overlap include the presiding deities Cupid and Hymenaeus, specific lexical choices, terminology of licit and illicit laps, and the women’s spat…
Persuasive Violence
This chapter discusses the connection between sexual violence and persuasion, first by identifying a grouping of similar poems that narrate female defloration. Defloration poems displace accounts of violence onto female narrators and downplay them in the voices of the official (male) narrators. Such accounts are found in both wedding and erotic poetry, indicating a point of cultural overlap. Physical force does appear as eroticized titillation in…
Allusive Superstars
The evening star and its counterpart, the morning star, play important roles as generic markers in wedding poetry and love poetry. Poetic appearances of the stars commonly allude to at least one previous example, creating a chain of literary references across antiquity. These stars exert a powerful influence on human activities. In weddings, the evening star brings the bride to the groom, separates her from her family, and arouses mixed emotions …
Eros at Dusk
This book analyzes the relationship between wedding poetry and love poetry in the ancient world. By treating both Greek and Latin texts, it offers an innovative and wide-ranging discussion of the poetic representation of social occasions. The discourses associated with weddings and love affairs both foreground ideas of persuasion and praise even though they differ dramatically in their participants and their outcomes. Furthermore, these texts mak…