Images of archaic desire: Eros in Anacreon’s melic poetry

This article aims to analyze the images elaborated by the archaic melic poet Anacreon (active in c. 550 BCE) in the representation of the god Eros and of the erotic experience in 14 of his fragments, given the author’s outstanding relevance in the tradition and also in the poetic genre in which such...

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Autores: Fernandes, Caio, Ragusa, Giuliana
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2021
País:Brasil
Institución:Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ)
Repositorio:Codex : Revista de Estudos Clássicos
Idioma:portugués
OAI Identifier:oai:ojs.pkp.sfu.ca:article/46676
Acceso en línea:https://revistas.ufrj.br/index.php/CODEX/article/view/46676
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:eros
poesia mélica grega
Anacreonte
período arcaico
erotismo
Greek melic poetry
Anacreon
archaic age
eroticism
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Sumario:This article aims to analyze the images elaborated by the archaic melic poet Anacreon (active in c. 550 BCE) in the representation of the god Eros and of the erotic experience in 14 of his fragments, given the author’s outstanding relevance in the tradition and also in the poetic genre in which such themes are most notably and recurrently found in Ancient Greek. By doing so, the article intends to highlight, commenting on them, the elements that are characteristic of the erotic language as worked by the poet, whose songs are essentially symposiastic and relate in different ways – and with different purposes – to various and important aspects of archaic Greek society.