Introduction

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Preface and Acknowledgements V
3. Contents VII
4. Introduction 1
5. Part I: Cyprus in Latin Literature
6. Cyprus and its Myths on the Roman Stage 13
7. Venus on Cyprus: Interlinked Lists of Aphrodite’s Cypriot Sanctuaries in Latin Poetry 33
8. Idalion, Satrachus and the Annales of Volusius: The Reception of Cyprus in the Carmina Catulli 51
9. Nil desperandum …. cras ingens iterabimus aequor (Hor. Carm. 1.7): The Foundation of Salamis by a Bastard Archer as an Exemplum in Latin Literature 65
10. Balance and Excess in Ovid’s Pygmalion Story 87
11. Was Cyprus Special? The Case of Two Latin Poets 103
12. Infamem nimio calore Cypron: Ancient Epigrams on Flacci in Cyprus 111
13. The Digression on Cyprus in Claudian’s Epithalamium de nuptiis Honorii et Mariae 131
14. Part II: Cyprus after Antiquity
15. Venus and Adonis from Enheduanna to Shakespeare: The Significance of Ovid’s Cypriot Metamorphoses 153
16. Pilgrims, Merchants and Lovers: The Island of Cyprus in Boccaccio’s Decameron (via Ovid’s Metamorphoses) 175
17. Venus of Paphos in the Latin Poetry of the Quattrocento 201
18. Ovid’s ‘Good’ Women: The Cypriot Exemplum Against the Background of the Statue (R)evolution 221
19. Osmosis between High Genres: Ovid’s Tragic Formation of Myrrha’s Tale (Met. 10.298–502) and its Reception in Alfieri’s Homonymous Tragedy 249
20. Travel, Classical Traditions and Empire: Western Travellers to Cyprus in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries 265
21. List of Contributors 289
22. General Index 293
23. Index Locorum 299