The Comparative Poetics of Homeric Literary Imitation from Antiquity to Renaissance France: Aphrodite's Charm

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Acknowledgements
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Introduction
	1	Modern Critical Views of the Διὸς ἀπάτη
	2	Control and Self-Control (Sophrosyne)
	3	Homeric Reception
Part 1
The Cestus in Greek and Latin Literature from Homer to Claudian
	1
Κεστός in Homer’s Narration of the Beguilement of Zeus
		1	The Iliad. An Influential hapax legomenon (14.215)
		2	Iliad 14.1–152: the Power of Zeus
		3	Iliad 14.153–353: Aphrodite’s Garment in the Διὸς ἀπάτη
	2
Parallels from Homer, Hesiod, and Apollonius
		1	A Seduction Scene in the Hymn to Aphrodite
		2	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 Homer
		1	Callimachus. Aetia, Fr. 43
		2	Bion, Epitaph of Adonis, 58–60
		3	Lucian: The Judgement of the Goddesses
		4	Pseudo-Oppian, Cynegetica
		5	Greek Epistolographers: from Alciphron to Aristaenetus
		6	Nonnus, Dionysiaca
		7	Colluthus, Raptus Helenae, 95–96
		8	Greek Anthology
	4
Ancients Interpreting Homer: Allegory, Cosmology, and Education
		1	Plato’s Criticism (Republic 3.390)
		2	Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics
		3	Heraclitus’ Allegories of Homer
		4	Proclus’ Commentary on the Republic
		5	Plutarch on How the Young Man Should Study Poetry
	5
Cestus in Ancient Latin Sources from the Flavians to Claudian
		1	Zona: a False Synonym in Catullus and Ovid
		2	Cestus: a Homonym in Festus and Virgil
		3	Valerius Flaccus, Argonautica 6–7
		4	Statius, Thebaid 2 and 5
		5	Martial. Mortals Wear the Cestus
		6	Petronius’ Satyricon, 126–131
		7	Claudian’s Epithalamium de nuptiis Honorii Augusti
		8	Conclusion
Part 2
Latin Receptions of the Cestus in the Later Middle Ages and Humanist Period
	Introduction
	6
Translations into Latin
		1	Leonzio Pilato: a Pioneering Ad Verbum Translation
		2	Lorenzo Valla: a Paraphrastic Quattrocento Prose Version
		3	Andrea Divo’s Influential Ad Verbum Bestseller
		4	Eobanus Hessus’ Verse Translation
		5	Erasmus, Adagia 3.2.36
		6	Sebastian Castellio’s Prose Translation
		7	Giphanius’ Edition (1572), in Search of a Homeric Latin Vocabulary
	7
Commentaries
		1	Venus’ Cestus in Giovanni Boccaccio’s Genealogia deorum gentilium
		2	Lilio Gregorio Giraldi: a Philologist in Pursuit of Clarity and Meaning
		3	Natale Conti: a Learned Compiler’s Literary Intuition
		4	Guillaume Budé: an Essayist’s Figurative Use of the Cestus
		5	Jean de Sponde: a Student’s Commentary of Homer
	8
Poetry
		1	Epithalamion
		2	Epigram
		3	Conclusion
Part 3
Homer’s κεστός in Renaissance France
	Introduction
	9
Jean Lemaire de Belges, Homeric Mythographer: the Ceston in Les Illustrations et Antiquitez des Gaules
	10 From the Generation of 1530 to the Querelle des Amyes: Inventive Readings and Receptions of the Ceston in Jehan Du Pré, Michel d’Amboise and Bertrand de la Borderie
		1	Jehan Du Pré’s Palais des Nobles Dames
		2	Michel d’Amboise Describes Venus’ Charm
		3	La Borderie and the Querelle des Amyes
	11
The Ceston in the Poetic Idiom of François Habert
		1	Habert Revisits the “Judgement of Paris” Scene
		2	La nouvelle Vénus: a New Ethos at the Valois Court?
		3	Habert, Inventive Poet, and Translator of Nicolas Brizard
	12
At the Court of Henri II. The Ceston in the Language of the Pléiade
		1	Mellin de Saint-Gelais and the “New Venus” Theme
		2	Pontus de Tyard. Erreurs Amoureuses at the Dawn of the Pléiade Generation
		3	Etienne Jodelle, the Gordian Knot, and Catullus 67
	13
Pierre de Ronsard’s New Inventions of Venus’ Ribbon
		1	A Richly Varied Groundwork
		2	Narrative Inventions: La Franciade
		3	Mythographic Encomium
	14
Eva Prima Pandora, or, the Creation of Womankind: the “Ceste” as Woman’s First Garment
		1	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 67
		1	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 67
		3	Léger Duchesne’s Metaphor of Civic Violence and Disorder
		4	Charles Godran’s Susanna: a Tragicomedy for Charles and Elisabeth of Austria
		5	Tasso’s Aminta and Its Translator Pierre de Brach
	16
Naturalizing Venus’ Ribbon in French: from Ceston to Demy-Ceint
		1	A Composite Noun
		2	Baïf’s Invention
		3	Ronsard Corrects His Work
	17
Translating the Cestus into French during the Sixteenth Century
		1	Jehan Samxon’s “First French Homer”
		2	Amadis Jamyn, Inheritor of the Pléiade’s Lexical Treasure
		3	Antoine de Cotel’s French Version of Iliad 14
		4	Tasso’s Epic and Its French Translators
	18
Twilights of an Idol: Word and Image in the Wake of Renaissance Humanism and Philology
		1	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 Lorraine
		3	Amadis Jamyn: a Translator’s Poetic Memory
		4	Rémy Belleau’s Allusive Poetic Memory
		5	Desportes’ Tentative Use of Ceston and Malherbe’s Criticism
	19
Cestus as Museum Piece: Metatextual Reference and “Precious” Memory
		1	Gilles Ménage’s Oiseleur: the Cestus Returns
		2	Boileau’s Art poétique and the Fiction of Homer’s Charm
		3	Conclusion
	Epilogue
Bibliography
Index of Sources
Index of Names
Index of Subjects
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