Literary loves as Cycles: from Meleager to Ovid

• Autores: M. Ypsilanti
• Localización: Antiquité classique, ISSN 0770-2817, Nº. 74, 2005, págs. 83-110
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • The importance of Meleager for later Greek and Roman erotic poetry is well known. The present paper offers observations on the cyclical approach by Meleager in his poems on girls and boys and, within this, his pair-of-epigrams technique. A comparison with similar techniques in later Greek epigrams and Roman erotic poetry of the first century B.C. allows a greater appreciation of Meleager�s importance and influence on later poets and reveals the manner and the extent to which his poetic works have inspired and constituted a guide for Latin love poetry.