Greek and Latin Love: The Poetic Connection
Thea S. Thorsen, "Greek and Latin Love: The Poetic Connection"
English | ISBN: 3110630591 | 2021 | 300 pages | PDF | 2 MB
English | ISBN: 3110630591 | 2021 | 300 pages | PDF | 2 MB
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
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