Veneration of Venus in Augustan love poetry as a metaphor of total devotion

Poets like Horace, Tibullus, Propertius, and Ovid spoke about emotional and explicitly sexual relationships with Venus in a language mobilising towards radical ways to live. Criminal actions from prayer attacks to the use of poisons were considered and imagined as being performed in this literature....

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主要作者: Rüpke, Jörg 1962- (Author)
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语言:English
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出版: Routledge 2023
In: Religion
Year: 2023, 卷: 53, 发布: 1, Pages: 68-86
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Venus, 女神 / Horatius Flaccus, Quintus 65 BC-8 BC, Odae 4,1 / 奉献 / 激进主义 / 感情 / / Militia Christi
IxTheo Classification:AE Psychology of religion
AG Religious life; material religion
BE Greco-Roman religions
TB Antiquity
Further subjects:B love poetry
B Total devotion
B Horace
B literary communication
B Roman Religion
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总结:Poets like Horace, Tibullus, Propertius, and Ovid spoke about emotional and explicitly sexual relationships with Venus in a language mobilising towards radical ways to live. Criminal actions from prayer attacks to the use of poisons were considered and imagined as being performed in this literature. Whereas the phenomenon of militia amoris – sexual relationships of men to women framed as military service – has been studied extensively, it has never been analysed in a framework of the History of Religion. Given the widespread reception of such texts and the rise of concepts of militia Christiana in the later Empire, a closer look at these texts is necessary. Focusing on Horace, Odes 4.1, this article inquires into his construction of the interplay of total devotion and emotions, which lies at the basis of performances of this text, and into the coherency of the religious framework developed in the poetry.
ISSN:1096-1151
访问:Open Access
Contains:Enthalten in: Religion
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1080/0048721X.2022.2150404