Studies in Colluthus' Abduction of Helen / by Cosetta Cadau.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cadau, Cosetta, author.

Series:

Mnemosyne, bibliotheca classica Batava. Supplementum ; 380.

Mnemosyne, bibliotheca classica Batava. Supplementum

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Colluthus, of Lycopolis. Rape of Helen.

Colluthus.

Colluthus, of Lycopolis--Criticism and interpretation.

Colluthus, of Lycopolis.

Rape of Helen (Colluthus, of Lycopolis).

Criticism and interpretation.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

vi, 324 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2015]

Summary:

This first monograph in English on Colluthus situates this late antique author within his cultural context and offers a new appraisal of his hexameter poem The Abduction of Helen, the end-point of the pagan Greek epic tradition, which was composed in the Christianised Egyptian Thebaid. The book evaluates the poem's connections with long-established and contemporary literary and artistic genres and with Neoplatonic philosophy, and analyzes the poet's re-negotiation of traditional material to suit the expectations of a late fifth-century AD audience. It explores Colluthus' interpretation of the contemporary fascination with visuality, identifies new connections between Colluthus and Claudian, and shows how the author's engagement with the poetry of Nonnus goes much further than previously shown-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

1 Colluthus in His Context 5

1 Colluthus' Life 5

2 Literary Culture at the Time of Anastasius 8

3 Colluthus and the Epyllion as a Genre 21

2 Colluthus and His Models 36

1 A Bucolic Opening 37

1.1 A Poetic Manifesto 42

1.2 The Introduction of Paris 47

2 An Epic Eris 82

2.1 The Gadfly 83

2.2 Eris' Plan of Destruction 90

3 Aphrodite's Agon 96

3.1 Aphrodite's Toilette 96

3.2 The Agon 106

3.3 Aphrodite's Invective 111

3 Colluthus' Visual Epyllion 135

1 Visuality in Literature 136

2 Colluthus' Visual Terminology 141

3 Description of Characters' Gestures and Appearance 150

3.1 Paris' Visual Evolution 154

4 Visual Power and its Impact on the Characters 165

4.1 Paris' Journey to Sparta 167

4.2 The First Encounter of Paris and Helen 176

5 Performative Aspects 205

4 Colluthus' Polyphonic Epyllion 222

1 The Narratology of Colluthus' Abduction of Helen 225

2 Auctorial Addresses 234

2.1 Address to Dionysus 235

2.2 Phyllis 240

3 Characters' Addresses 246

3.1 Hermione 246

3.2 Paris 252

4 Direct Speech, Psychology and Evaluation of Characters 254.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

9789004279506

9004279504

OCLC:

900685726