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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Format: | Electronic Article |
Language: | English |
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Routledge
2023
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Religion
Year: 2023, Volume: 53, Issue: 1, Pages: 68-86 |
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Venus, Goddess
/ Horatius Flaccus, Quintus 65 BC-8 BC, Odae 4,1
/ Devotion
/ Radicalism
/ Emotion
/ Love
/ Militia Christi
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RelBib 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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