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Venus on Cyprus: Interlinked Lists of Aphrodite’s Cypriot Sanctuaries in Latin Poetry

  • Stephen Harrison
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The Reception of Ancient Cyprus in Western Culture
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Abstract

Brief lists of the various Cypriot sanctuaries of Aphrodite/Venus, which stress her divine status and power in an abbreviated and topographical form of aretalogy (the enumeration of a deity’s qualities or capacities), are a feature of classical Roman poetry from Catullus to Statius, and of the neo-Latin poetry of the Italian Renaissance which imitates it. This paper looks at these lists, considering the intertextual relations between them and the accuracy or otherwise of their toponyms. In particular, it considers the examples to be found in Catullus, Vergil, Ovid, the Catalepton, and Statius, also including a prose instance from Apuleius, plus those in various neo-Latin poets from Boccaccio to Marullo. This diffusion of the theme reflects the status of Cyprus as a province of the Roman empire from the time of Catullus, and as a prominent Venetian possession in the Renaissance.

Abstract

Brief lists of the various Cypriot sanctuaries of Aphrodite/Venus, which stress her divine status and power in an abbreviated and topographical form of aretalogy (the enumeration of a deity’s qualities or capacities), are a feature of classical Roman poetry from Catullus to Statius, and of the neo-Latin poetry of the Italian Renaissance which imitates it. This paper looks at these lists, considering the intertextual relations between them and the accuracy or otherwise of their toponyms. In particular, it considers the examples to be found in Catullus, Vergil, Ovid, the Catalepton, and Statius, also including a prose instance from Apuleius, plus those in various neo-Latin poets from Boccaccio to Marullo. This diffusion of the theme reflects the status of Cyprus as a province of the Roman empire from the time of Catullus, and as a prominent Venetian possession in the Renaissance.

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  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
https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110984309-003

Kapitel in diesem Buch

  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
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