The Comparative Poetics of Homeric Literary Imitation from Antiquity to Renaissance France: Aphrodite's Charm - Hardcover
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Availability:In StockContributor:John NassichukSeries:Medieval and Renaissance Authors and TextsTheme:Chronological Period/Ancient (To 499 A.D.)Publish date:1/23/2025Pages:518
Languages:EnglishPublisher:BrillISBN-13:9789004720862ISBN-10:9004720863UPC:9789004720862Book Category:Literary Collections, Poetry, HistoryBook Subcategory:Ancient, Classical & Medieval, Ancient & Classical, EuropeBook Topic:RenaissanceSize:9.46 x 6.38 x 1.32 inchesWeight:0.894Product ID:SCN66ZJY9A
Aphrodite's famous ribbon known as the cestus, the irresistible love charm that she loaned to Hera in the Iliad, was, thanks to a fruitful early misreading, transformed by ancient, medieval, and Renaissance authors into a symbol of honorable feminine chastity: in Maurice Scève's 1560 Microcosme, an epic rewriting of Genesis, Eve first appears before an astonished Adam wearing the virginal cestus as a symbolic guarantee of her sexual innocence. This book traces the history of this curious development from Homer to the end of the sixteenth century in France. Through analyses of both famous and little-known texts, it illustrates the complexity and fecund liberty of Homeric reception.
Languages:EnglishPublisher:BrillISBN-13:9789004720862ISBN-10:9004720863UPC:9789004720862Book Category:Literary Collections, Poetry, HistoryBook Subcategory:Ancient, Classical & Medieval, Ancient & Classical, EuropeBook Topic:RenaissanceSize:9.46 x 6.38 x 1.32 inchesWeight:0.894Product ID:SCN66ZJY9A
John Nassichuk, Ph.D. (1998), Queen's University and Doctorat Nouveau Régime (2002), Université de Paris 7, is Professor of French and Neo-Latin Literature at the University of Western Ontario. He has published many articles on 15th- and 16th-century humanist authors in France and Italy.
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