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Anagnostou-Laoutides, Evangelia. Eros and Ritual in Ancient Literature
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| Author: | Evangelia Anagnostou-Laoutides |
| Title: | Eros and Ritual in Ancient Literature |
| Subtitle: | Singing of Atalanta, Daphnis, and Orpheus |
| Series: | Gorgias Dissertations Classics GD 11, Classics 3 |
| Publisher: | Gorgias Press LLC |
| Publication Date: | 4/4/2005 5:11:49 PM |
| Availability: | In Print |
| ISBN: | 1-931956-72-3 |
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| Format: | Hardback 6 x 9, 1 volume(s), xxxv+574 pages, illustrations |
This book examines popular erotic myths with regard to their origins and literary treatment throughout antiquity. The relation of ritual to certain mythic patterns that reflect initiation rites is also considered.
The myths are chosen in order to form a narrative sequence, but also as an example of how mythic patterns can be variously manipulated in literature. The first two chapters study the myths of Atalanta and of Daphnis (in Theocritus) and comment on literary metaphors for falling in love. The influence of ritual and particularly of Near Eastern cults in the formation and the subtext of these metaphors is indicated. The nature of Latin Elegy and of Greek pastoral is analyzed based on fundamental metaphors that poets might have used as the bedrock of their work.
The following three chapters deal with the Vergilian project in the Eclogues and the Georgics: in his Eclogues, Vergil envisioned a second Golden Age, beyond the suffering of civil strife; based on teleology rites like the Orphic and the Eleusinian mysteries, he ascribed to Daphnis the civilizing force of Orpheus. Thus, he attributed to the pastoral ideal the philosophical depth and credence of ancient religions. Mythical allusions to the primal Golden Age and Arcadia were designed to outline the role of love and poetry in the New Agricultural Age. In the fourth book of the Georgics, the myth of Orpheus and Eurydice was interwoven with that of Aristaeus, to denote the rebirth of the Golden Age under the Jovian theodicy. Vergil returned to ancient rites in which the initiate was perceived as dying before being resurrected to a new stage of existence. In this light, Aristaeus and Orpheus are equated as cultural pioneers.
These myths reinforce the association between cult and mythology in literature. Initiation patterns were employed as literary metaphors for falling in love or even for holding a philosophical argument on human progress.
Evangelia Anagnostou-Laoutides studied Classical Philology at the Aristoteleion University of Thessaloniki, Greece, from 1992 to 1997. A bursar of the State Scholarships Foundation, she was an MA student of Latin Literature at the University of Leeds, UK from 1997 to 1998, and a PhD student at the University of Kent at Canterbury, UK from 1998-2001. Her research interests cover mythology and cult across a variety of ancient literary genres including Greek Lyric and Drama, Hellenistic epigram and bucolic poetry, Latin elegy, and pastoral. She currently teaches classical mythology and drama at the Universities of Kent and Wales, while she also co-operates with the Foundation of the Hellenic World on the project 'Asia Minor: an electronic dictionary.'
- Introduction
- The Myth of Atalanta in Antiquity
- Theocritus 1.1: The Myth of Daphnis
- The Pastorals of Vergil - Eclogues and the Georgics
- Poetry and Vergil
- Aristaeus and Orpheus in Georgics Four
- Conclusion
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