1.

Record Nr.

UNISA996207191203316

Autore

Fantuzzi Marco

Titolo

Achilles in love [[electronic resource] ] : intertextual studies / / Marco Fantuzzi

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford, : Oxford University Press, 2012

ISBN

1-283-98653-1

0-19-162611-2

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (339 p.)

Disciplina

880.9351

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

""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""

Sommario/riassunto

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.

2.

Record Nr.

UNIORUON00437420

Autore

VEDLICH, Joseph

Titolo

The prints of the Ten Bamboo Studio : Followed by plates from the Kaempfer series and Perfect harmony / Presentation and commentary by Joseph Vedlich

Pubbl/distr/stampa

[New York], : Crescent books,  [c1979]

ISBN

05-17-28286-0

Descrizione fisica

122 p. : ill. ; 28 cm

Classificazione

CIN IX J

Soggetti

INCISIONI SU LEGNO - CINA - SEC. XVII-XVIII

PITTURA CINESE - STAMPE A COLORI - DINASTIA MING (1368-1912)

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia