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.

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Information

Publisher

De Gruyter

Year

2021

ISBN

9783110630619

Edition

Topic

Littérature

Subtopic

Critique littéraire ancienne et classique

Title Page
Copyright
Contents
Preface
Introducing Greek and Latin Love: The Poetic Connection
Love: Ancient and Later Representations
There Falls a Lone Tear: Longing for a Vanished Love – Tracing an Erotic Motif from Homer to Horace
Orpheus and Sappho as Model Poets: Blurring Greek and Latin Love in Lament for Bion, Catullus 51, and Horace Odes 1.24
Amans et Egens and Exclusus Amator: The Connection (or not) between Comedy and Elegy
Rape and Violence in Terence’s Eunuchus and Ovid’s Love Elegies
Love and Poetry in Virgil’s Sixth Eclogue: A Platonic Perspective
Longum Bibebat Amorem: Virgilian Adaptation of Sympotic Poetry
Philodemus and the Augustan Poets
Love and Politics in Horace’s Odes 4.10
Amores Plural: Ovidian Homoerotics in the Elegies
The Beloved: Figures and Words
List of Contributors
Index Locorum
Index Rerum