The reception of ancient Cyprus in western culture

Medientyp: E-Book

Titel: The reception of ancient Cyprus in western culture

Enthält: 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

Beteiligte: Tzunakas, Spyridōn [Herausgeber:in]; Alekou, Stella [Herausgeber:in]; Harrison, Stephen [Herausgeber:in]

Erschienen: Berlin; Boston: De Gruyter, 2022

Umfang: 1 Online-Ressource (VIII, 314 p.)

Sprache: Englisch

DOI: 10.1515/9783110984309

ISBN: 9783110984309

Identifikator:

RVK-Notation: NG 1520 : Rezeption, Wirkungsgeschichte
EC 5410 : Einzelne Stoffe und Motive
FT 92000 : Untersuchungen zu diversen Themen aus Dichtung und Prosa-Literatur

Schlagwörter: Latein > Literatur > Zypern > Mythos > Rezeption

Entstehung:

Anmerkungen: In English

Beschreibung: 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

Zugangsstatus: Eingeschränkter Zugang | Informationen zu lizenzierten elektronischen Ressourcen der SLUB

Nur in Feld suchen:

Zuletzt gesuchte Begriffe: