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The Comparative Poetics of Homeric Literary Imitation from Antiquity to Renaissance France: Aphrodite's Charm - Couverture rigide

Nassichuk, John

 
9789004720862: The Comparative Poetics of Homeric Literary Imitation from Antiquity to Renaissance France: Aphrodite's Charm
Couverture rigide
ISBN 10 : 9004720863 ISBN 13 : 9789004720862
Editeur : Brill, 2025

Synopsis

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.

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À propos de l'auteur

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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Éditeur
Brill
Date d'édition
2025
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
9004720863
ISBN 13 
9789004720862
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
532
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