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Tzunakas, Spyridōn [Editor]; Alekou, Stella [Editor]; Harrison, Stephen [Editor]

The reception of ancient Cyprus in western culture

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  • Media type: E-Book
  • Title: The reception of ancient Cyprus in western culture
  • Contains: Frontmatter
    Preface and Acknowledgements
    Contents
    Introduction
    Part I: Cyprus in Latin Literature
    Cyprus and its Myths on the Roman Stage
    Venus on Cyprus: Interlinked Lists of Aphrodite’s Cypriot Sanctuaries in Latin Poetry
    Idalion, Satrachus and the Annales of Volusius: The Reception of Cyprus in the Carmina Catulli
    Nil desperandum …. cras ingens iterabimus aequor (Hor. Carm. 1.7): The Foundation of Salamis by a Bastard Archer as an Exemplum in Latin Literature
    Balance and Excess in Ovid’s Pygmalion Story
    Was Cyprus Special? The Case of Two Latin Poets
    Infamem nimio calore Cypron: Ancient Epigrams on Flacci in Cyprus
    The Digression on Cyprus in Claudian’s Epithalamium de nuptiis Honorii et Mariae
    Part II: Cyprus after Antiquity
    Venus and Adonis from Enheduanna to Shakespeare: The Significance of Ovid’s Cypriot Metamorphoses
    Pilgrims, Merchants and Lovers: The Island of Cyprus in Boccaccio’s Decameron (via Ovid’s Metamorphoses)
    Venus of Paphos in the Latin Poetry of the Quattrocento
    Ovid’s ‘Good’ Women: The Cypriot Exemplum Against the Background of the Statue (R)evolution
    Osmosis between High Genres: Ovid’s Tragic Formation of Myrrha’s Tale (Met. 10.298–502) and its Reception in Alfieri’s Homonymous Tragedy
    Travel, Classical Traditions and Empire: Western Travellers to Cyprus in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries
    List of Contributors
    General Index
    Index Locorum
  • Contributor: Tzunakas, Spyridōn [Editor]; Alekou, Stella [Editor]; Harrison, Stephen [Editor]
  • Published: Berlin; Boston: De Gruyter, 2022
  • Published in: Trends in Classics - Supplementary Volumes ; 139
  • Extent: 1 Online-Ressource (VIII, 314 p.)
  • Language: English
  • DOI: 10.1515/9783110984309
  • ISBN: 9783110984309
  • Identifier:
  • RVK notation: NG 1520 : Rezeption, Wirkungsgeschichte
    EC 5410 : Einzelne Stoffe und Motive
    FT 92000 : Untersuchungen zu diversen Themen aus Dichtung und Prosa-Literatur
  • Keywords: Latein > Literatur > Zypern > Mythos > Rezeption
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  • Footnote: In English
  • Description: The reception of ancient Cyprus in the Western world has not received much attention in scholarship, despite the fact that significant literary and extra-literary evidence presented by European intellectuals and artists explicitly or implicitly refers to the history of Cyprus, as well as to the myths and art produced on it or inspired by its landscape. This is a neglect that this volume wishes to address, by re-establishing the literary thread of the representation of ancient Cyprus beyond generic, spatial and temporal limits, and by thus shedding light on its depiction throughout the centuries, from the ancient Roman to the Western world up until modern times. The volume’s central thesis is that a number of Cypriot traditions constitute a unique example of intercultural and multi-level fusions of diverse European civilizations. By investigating the various and often contradictory ways in which Cyprus was represented in Latin literature and beyond, the volume treats its multifaceted reception as a vastly complex matter, and suggests that even though the island has always been an outlier, it has often been explored in literature as an intellectual landscape and a precious pathway between at times conflictual yet compatible worlds
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