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PublisherDE Gruyter Gmbh, Walter

ISBN-103111255794

ISBN-139783111255798

eBay Product ID (ePID)4059333422

Product Key Features

Number of Pages275 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication NameGreek and Latin Love : the Poetic Connection

SubjectLatin, Ancient & Classical

Publication Year2023

TypeTextbook

Subject AreaLiterary Criticism, Foreign Language Study

AuthorIris Brecke

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Weight20 Oz

Item Length9.1 in

Item Width6.1 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional

Reviews"The editors are to be commended for producing an extremely useful book that will serve as an indispensable reference point for future research on Greek and Latin love and will further stimulate scholarly interest in this fundamental and fascinating subject." A. N. Michalopoulos, The Classical Review (2022) 1-3.

Dewey Edition23

Grade FromCollege Graduate Student

Grade ToCollege Graduate Student

Dewey Decimal809.1935430901

SynopsisIt 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., 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.

LC Classification NumberPA3021