An edition of Achilles in love
(2012)
Achilles in love
intertextual studies
by Marco Fantuzzi
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Tracing the escapades of Achilles' erotic history - whether in same-sex or opposite-sex relationships - this book explains how these relationships were developed and revealed, or elided and concealed, in the writing and visual arts following Homer.
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Achilles in love: intertextual studies
2012, Oxford University Press
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0191626112 9780191626111
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Table of Contents
""Cover""; ""Contents""; ""List of Plates""; ""1. Introduction""; ""Homer: an encyclopedia of love?""; ""Achilles and the crossing of boundaries�of heroism, and of the epic genre""; ""Perceptions of (Achilles�) love""; ""2. Deidameia""; ""Epic silence""; ""Classical texts and paintings, and the first critics""; ""Achilles the coward lover""; ""Achilles makes love, not war""; ""Achilles (at Scyros) and the issue of character consistency""; ""Ovid as a champion of the character consistency of Achilles?""; ""Statius and the dignification of Achilles at Scyros""
""Effeminacy, passion, and the melancholy of decisions""""3. Briseis""; ""Homer�s inexplicitness""; ""Passion or rhetorical self-defence?""; ""Briseis (omitted)""; ""Another opinion about Achilles and Briseis""; ""Ovid�s Briseis far beyond matrimonial hopes, and icy Achilles""; ""Briseis� pessimism destabilizes elegy""; ""But at least someone did believe that Achilles loved Briseis""; ""The fortunes of elegiac Achilles""; ""Translating but eroticizing the Iliad""; ""The tears of Briseis""; ""4. Comrades in Love""; ""Epic friendships""
""€?And Patroclus complied with his dear friend�""""Patroclus versus Briseis""; ""Patroclus the �second self � of Achilles""; ""Tragic eros""; ""Classifying the unlabelled""; ""The ancient homo-scepticals""; ""Virgil and the fortunate losers: in the steps of Achilles/Patroclus and Odysseus/Diomedes""; ""Fortunati ambo and amor pius""; ""Athis and Lycabas, Hopleus and Dymas""; ""5. Flirting with the Enemy""; ""�The best of the Achaeans� is impeached""; ""Penthesileia between Propertius (Virgil) and Nonnus""; ""Works Quoted""; ""Index""; ""A""; ""B""; ""C""; ""D""; ""E""; ""F""
""G""""h""; ""i""; ""j""; ""k""; ""l""; ""m""; ""n""; ""o""; ""p""; ""q""; ""r""; ""s""; ""t""; ""u""; ""v""; ""x""; ""z""
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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