Achilles in love [[electronic resource] ] : intertextual studies / / Marco Fantuzzi
(Visualizza in formato marc)
(Visualizza in BIBFRAME)
| Autore: |
Fantuzzi Marco
|
| Titolo: |
Achilles in love [[electronic resource] ] : intertextual studies / / Marco Fantuzzi
|
| Pubblicazione: | Oxford, : Oxford University Press, 2012 |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (339 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 880.9351 |
| 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. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Achilles in love |
| ISBN: | 1-283-98653-1 |
| 0-19-162611-2 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 996207191203316 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. di Salerno |
| Opac: | Controlla la disponibilità qui |