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...
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- 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.