Eros and ritual in ancient literature
Subtitle: singing of Atalanta, Daphnis, and Orpheus
By: Evangelia Anagnostou-Laoutides.
Edition: 1st Gorgias Press ed.
Series: Gorgias dissertations ;; 11.; Classics ;; v. 3; Gorgias dissertations ;; 11.; Gorgias dissertations.; v. 3.
Publisher: Gorgias Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Piscataway, NJ
Language: eng
Number of pages: 574
Subjects: Theocritus; Virgil; Virgil; Pastoral poetry, Classical -- History and criticism; Orpheus (Greek mythology) in literature; Daphnis (Greek mythology) in literature; Mythology, Classical, in literature; Atalanta (Greek mythology); Singing in literature; Ritual in literature; Sex in literature
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The myth of Atalanta in antiquity; title: Theocritus 1.1 : the myth of Daphnis; title: The pastorals of Vergil : Eclogues and the Georgics; title: Poetry and Vergil; title: Aristaeus and Orpheus in Georgics Four.