Comparative Poetics of Homeric Literary Imitation from Antiquity to Renaissance France

John Nassichuk, Ph.D. (1998), Queen’s University and Doctorat Nouveau Régime (2002), Université de Paris 7, is Professor of French and Neo-Latin Literature at the University of Western Ontario. He has published many articles on 15th- and 16th-century humanist authors in France and Italy.

• ContentsAcknowledgementsList of FiguresIntroduction1 Modern Critical Views of the Δίος ἀπατή2 Control and Self-Control (Sophrosyne)3 Homeric ReceptionPart 1: The Cestus in Greek and Latin Literature from Homer to Claudian1 Κεστός in Homer’s Narration of the Beguilement of Zeus1 The Iliad. An Influential hapax legomenon (14.215)2 Iliad 14.1–152: the Power of Zeus3 Iliad 14.153–353: Aphrodite’s Garment in the Διὸς ἀπάτη2 Parallels from Homer, Hesiod, and Apollonius1 A Seduction Scene in the Hymn to Aphrodite2 Athena’s Tasseled Aegis (Il. 5)3 Leukothea’s Magical Veil (Od. 5.343–353)4 Pandora, or, Hesiod’s Gift to Mankind (Op. 63–68)5 Apollonius Rhodius Replaces the Ribbon with Eros (Arg. III, 25–166)3 The κεστός in Greek Poets Other than Homer1 Callimachus. Aetia, Fr. 432 Bion, Epitaph of Adonis, 58–603 Lucian: The Judgement of the Goddesses4 Pseudo-Oppian, Cynegetica5 Greek Epistolographers: from Alciphron to Aristaenetus6 Nonnus, Dionysiaca7 Colluthus, Raptus Helenae, 95–968 Greek Anthology4 Ancients Interpreting Homer: Allegory, Cosmology, and Education1 Plato’s Criticism (Republic 3.390)2 Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics3 Heraclitus’ Allegories of Homer4 Proclus’ Commentary on the Republic5 Plutarch on How the Young Man Should Study Poetry5 Cestus in Ancient Latin Sources from the Flavians to Claudian1 Zona: a False Synonym in Catullus and Ovid2 Cestus: a Homonym in Festus and Virgil3 Valerius Flaccus, Argonautica 6–74 Statius, Thebaid 2 and 55 Martial. Mortals Wear the Cestus6 Petronius’ Satyricon, 126–1317 Claudian’s Epithalamium de nuptiis Honorii Augusti8 ConclusionPart 2: Latin Receptions of the Cestus in the Later Middle Ages and Humanist PeriodIntroduction6 Translations into Latin1 Leonzio Pilato: a Pioneering Ad Verbum Translation2 Lorenzo Valla: a Paraphrastic Quattrocento Prose Version3 Andrea Divo’s Influential Ad Verbum Bestseller4 Eobanus Hessus’ Verse Translation5 Erasmus, Adagia 3.2.366 Sebastian Castellio’s Prose Translation7 Giphanius’ Edition (1572), in Search of a Homeric Latin Vocabulary7 Commentaries1 Venus’ Cestus in Giovanni Boccaccio’s Genealogia deorum gentilium2 Lilio Gregorio Giraldi: a Philologist in Pursuit of Clarity and Meaning3 Natale Conti: a Learned Compiler’s Literary Intuition4 Guillaume Budé: an Essayist’s Figurative Use of the Cestus5 Jean de Sponde: a Student’s Commentary of Homer8 Poetry1 Epithalamion2 Epigram3 ConclusionPart 3: Homer’s κεστός in Renaissance FranceIntroduction9 Jean Lemaire de Belges, Homeric Mythographer: the Ceston in Les Illustrations et Antiquitez des Gaules10 From the Generation of 1530 to the Querelle des AmyesInventive Readings and Receptions of the Ceston in Jehan Du Pré, Michel d’Amboise and Bertrand de la Borderie1 Jehan Du Pré’s Palais des Nobles Dames2 Michel d’Amboise Describes Venus’ Charm3 La Borderie and the Querelle des Amyes11 The Ceston in the Poetic Idiom of François Habert1 Habert Revisits the “Judgement of Paris” Scene2 La nouvelle Vénus: a New Ethos at the Valois Court?3 Habert, Inventive Poet, and Translator of Nicolas Brizard12 At the Court of Henri II. The Ceston in the Language of the Pléiade1 Mellin de Saint-Gelais and the “New Venus” Theme2 Pontus de Tyard. Erreurs Amoureuses at the Dawn of the Pléiade Generation3 Etienne Jodelle, the Gordian Knot, and Catullus 6713 Pierre de Ronsard’s New Inventions of Venus’ Ribbon1 A Richly Varied Groundwork2 Narrative Inventions: La Franciade3 Mythographic Encomium14 Eva Prima Pandora, or, the Creation of Womankind: the “Ceste” as Woman’s First Garment1 Pandora Wears the Cestus: Jean Olivier’s Latin Epic (1541)2 Maurice Scève: Eve’s First Appearance (Microcosme)15 Venus’ Ribbon as an Emblem of Civil Strife during the Religious Wars: Echoes of Catullus 671 Salmon Macrin’s Ode to His New Brother-in-Law (1531)2 Claude Roillet: a Chorus in the Philanira and a New Echo of Catullus 673 Léger Duchesne’s Metaphor of Civic Violence and Disorder4 Charles Godran’s Susanna: a Tragicomedy for Charles and Elisabeth of Austria5 Tasso’s Aminta and Its Translator Pierre de Brach16 Naturalizing Venus’ Ribbon in French: from Ceston to Demy-Ceint1 A Composite Noun2 Baïf’s Invention3 Ronsard Corrects His Work17 Translating the Cestus into French during the Sixteenth Century1 Jehan Samxon’s “First French Homer”2 Amadis Jamyn, Inheritor of the Pléiade’s Lexical Treasure3 Antoine de Cotel’s French Version of Iliad 144 Tasso’s Epic and Its French Translators18 Twilights of an Idol: Word and Image in the Wake of Renaissance Humanism and Philology1 Baïf’s Mascarade de M. de Longueville: a Poem for the Festivity at Bayonne (1565)2 François Du Tertre’s Epithalamion for Henri III and Louise de Lorraine3 Amadis Jamyn: a Translator’s Poetic Memory4 Rémy Belleau’s Allusive Poetic Memory5 Desportes’ Tentative Use of Ceston and Malherbe’s Criticism19 Cestus as Museum Piece: Metatextual Reference and “Precious” Memory1 Gilles Ménage’s Oiseleur: the Cestus Returns2 Boileau’s Art poétique and the Fiction of Homer’s Charm3 ConclusionEpilogueBibliographyIndex