The Comparative Poetics of Homeric Literary Imitation from Antiquity to Renaissance France

Aphrodite's Charm
Erscheinungsjahr 2025
ISBN: 978-90-04-72086-2
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 29, 518 Seiten, Format (B × H): 162 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 894 g

Reihe: Medieval and Renaissance Authors and Texts

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Nassichuk, John

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Klassische Literaturwissenschaft

Über Autor(innen)

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.