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

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

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 Micr...

Full description

Saved in:

Main Author: Nassichuk, John (Author)

Format: eBook

Language: English

Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2025.

Series: Late Antiquity and Medieval Studies E-Books Online, Collection 2024.
Medieval and Renaissance Authors and Texts ; 29.

Subjects:

Classical Studies.
Classical Tradition & Reception Studies.

Online Access: Login to view Source

Tags: Add Tag

No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!

Call Number: Z6207.G7 DE3

Save to List Photographic Request Become a member
Table of Contents:
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgements
  • List of Figures
  • Introduction
  •  1 Modern Critical Views of the Δίος ἀπατή
  •  2 Control and Self-Control (Sophrosyne)
  •  3 Homeric Reception
  • Part 1: The Cestus in Greek and Latin Literature from Homer to Claudian
  • 1 Κεστός in Homer's Narration of the Beguilement of Zeus
  •  1 The Iliad. An Influential hapax legomenon (14.215)
  •  2 Iliad 14.1-152: the Power of Zeus
  •  3 Iliad 14.153-353: Aphrodite's Garment in the Διὸς ἀπάτη
  • 2 Parallels from Homer, Hesiod, and Apollonius
  •  1 A Seduction Scene in the Hymn to Aphrodite
  •  2 Athena's Tasseled Aegis (Il. 5)
  •  3 Leukothea's Magical Veil (Od. 5.343-353)
  •  4 Pandora, or, Hesiod's Gift to Mankind (Op. 63-68)
  •  5 Apollonius Rhodius Replaces the Ribbon with Eros (Arg. III, 25-166)
  • 3 The κεστός in Greek Poets Other than Homer
  •  1 Callimachus. Aetia, Fr. 43
  •  2 Bion, Epitaph of Adonis, 58-60
  •  3 Lucian: The Judgement of the Goddesses
  •  4 Pseudo-Oppian, Cynegetica
  •  5 Greek Epistolographers: from Alciphron to Aristaenetus
  •  6 Nonnus, Dionysiaca
  •  7 Colluthus, Raptus Helenae, 95-96
  •  8 Greek Anthology
  • 4 Ancients Interpreting Homer: Allegory, Cosmology, and Education
  •  1 Plato's Criticism (Republic 3.390)
  •  2 Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics
  •  3 Heraclitus' Allegories of Homer
  •  4 Proclus' Commentary on the Republic
  •  5 Plutarch on How the Young Man Should Study Poetry
  • 5 Cestus in Ancient Latin Sources from the Flavians to Claudian
  •  1 Zona: a False Synonym in Catullus and Ovid
  •  2 Cestus: a Homonym in Festus and Virgil
  •  3 Valerius Flaccus, Argonautica 6-7
  •  4 Statius, Thebaid 2 and 5
  •  5 Martial. Mortals Wear the Cestus
  •  6 Petronius' Satyricon, 126-131
  •  7 Claudian's Epithalamium de nuptiis Honorii Augusti
  •  8 Conclusion
  • Part 2: Latin Receptions of the Cestus in the Later Middle Ages and Humanist Period
  • Introduction
  • 6 Translations into Latin
  •  1 Leonzio Pilato: a Pioneering Ad Verbum Translation
  •  2 Lorenzo Valla: a Paraphrastic Quattrocento Prose Version
  •  3 Andrea Divo's Influential Ad Verbum Bestseller
  •  4 Eobanus Hessus' Verse Translation
  •  5 Erasmus, Adagia 3.2.36
  •  6 Sebastian Castellio's Prose Translation
  •  7 Giphanius' Edition (1572), in Search of a Homeric Latin Vocabulary
  • 7 Commentaries
  •  1 Venus' Cestus in Giovanni Boccaccio's Genealogia deorum gentilium
  •  2 Lilio Gregorio Giraldi: a Philologist in Pursuit of Clarity and Meaning
  •  3 Natale Conti: a Learned Compiler's Literary Intuition
  •  4 Guillaume Budé: an Essayist's Figurative Use of the Cestus
  •  5 Jean de Sponde: a Student's Commentary of Homer
  • 8 Poetry
  •  1 Epithalamion
  •  2 Epigram
  •  3 Conclusion
  • Part 3: Homer's κεστός in Renaissance France
  • Introduction
  • 9 Jean Lemaire de Belges, Homeric Mythographer: the Ceston in Les Illustrations et Antiquitez des Gaules
  • 10 From the Generation of 1530 to the Querelle des Amyes
  • Inventive Readings and Receptions of the Ceston in Jehan Du Pré, Michel d'Amboise and Bertrand de la Borderie
  •  1 Jehan Du Pré's Palais des Nobles Dames
  •  2 Michel d'Amboise Describes Venus' Charm
  •  3 La Borderie and the Querelle des Amyes
  • 11 The Ceston in the Poetic Idiom of François Habert
  •  1 Habert Revisits the "Judgement of Paris" Scene
  •  2 La nouvelle Vénus: a New Ethos at the Valois Court?
  •  3 Habert, Inventive Poet, and Translator of Nicolas Brizard
  • 12 At the Court of Henri II. The Ceston in the Language of the Pléiade
  •  1 Mellin de Saint-Gelais and the "New Venus" Theme
  •  2 Pontus de Tyard. Erreurs Amoureuses at the Dawn of the Pléiade Generation
  •  3 Etienne Jodelle, the Gordian Knot, and Catullus 67
  • 13 Pierre de Ronsard's New Inventions of Venus' Ribbon
  •  1 A Richly Varied Groundwork
  •  2 Narrative Inventions: La Franciade
  •  3 Mythographic Encomium
  • 14 Eva Prima Pandora, or, the Creation of Womankind: the "Ceste" as Woman's First Garment
  •  1 Pandora Wears the Cestus: Jean Olivier's Latin Epic (1541)
  •  2 Maurice Scève: Eve's First Appearance (Microcosme)
  • 15 Venus' Ribbon as an Emblem of Civil Strife during the Religious Wars: Echoes of Catullus 67
  •  1 Salmon Macrin's Ode to His New Brother-in-Law (1531)
  •  2 Claude Roillet: a Chorus in the Philanira and a New Echo of Catullus 67
  •  3 Léger Duchesne's Metaphor of Civic Violence and Disorder
  •  4 Charles Godran's Susanna: a Tragicomedy for Charles and Elisabeth of Austria
  •  5 Tasso's Aminta and Its Translator Pierre de Brach
  • 16 Naturalizing Venus' Ribbon in French: from Ceston to Demy-Ceint
  •  1 A Composite Noun
  •  2 Baïf's Invention
  •  3 Ronsard Corrects His Work
  • 17 Translating the Cestus into French during the Sixteenth Century
  •  1 Jehan Samxon's "First French Homer"
  •  2 Amadis Jamyn, Inheritor of the Pléiade's Lexical Treasure
  •  3 Antoine de Cotel's French Version of Iliad 14
  •  4 Tasso's Epic and Its French Translators
  • 18 Twilights of an Idol: Word and Image in the Wake of Renaissance Humanism and Philology
  •  1 Baïf's Mascarade de M. de Longueville: a Poem for the Festivity at Bayonne (1565)
  •  2 François Du Tertre's Epithalamion for Henri III and Louise de Lorraine
  •  3 Amadis Jamyn: a Translator's Poetic Memory
  •  4 Rémy Belleau's Allusive Poetic Memory
  •  5 Desportes' Tentative Use of Ceston and Malherbe's Criticism
  • 19 Cestus as Museum Piece: Metatextual Reference and "Precious" Memory
  •  1 Gilles Ménage's Oiseleur: the Cestus Returns
  •  2 Boileau's Art poétique and the Fiction of Homer's Charm
  •  3 Conclusion
  • Epilogue
  • Bibliography
  • Index.