Wiener Studien Band 130/2017 Zeitschrift für Klassische Philologie, Patristik und lateinische Tradition
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BANK AUSTRIA CREDITANSTALT, WIEN (IBAN AT04 1100 0006 2280 0100, BIC BKAUATWW), DEUTSCHE BANK MÜNCHEN (IBAN DE16 7007 0024 0238 8270 00, BIC DEUTDEDBMUC)
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Wiener Studien Band 130/2017 Zeitschrift für Klassische Philologie, Patristik und lateinische Tradition
ISSN 0084-005X
Print Edition ISSN 1813-3924 Online Edition ISBN 978-3-7001-8140-8 Print Edition ISBN 978-3-7001-8149-1 Online Edition
Maria Ypsilanti
S. 153 - 170 doi:10.1553/wst130s153 Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften doi:10.1553/wst130s153
Abstract: This paper explores the portrayal of Aphrodite, Athena, Helen and other women as realized through the comments made by Aphrodite and Paris on femininity and the lack of it in Colluthus’ Rape of Helen. It is argued that in making Paris state that Helen’s female ‘Argive’ entourage lacks womanly features, Colluthus is making reference to Theocritus’ Encomion of Helen and to Callimachus’ Bath of Pallas, in which Spartan women and Athena respectively are endowed with masculine characteristics. Colluthus is further conversing with the Homeric image of Aphrodite in the passage in which the goddess is defeated by Athena and Diomedes and is mocked for her feebleness. In Colluthus, it is Aphrodite’s turn to exult over her Homeric opponents (namely Athena) and to show that beauty, which shines in her victory in Paris’ judgment, is the real female power which masculine women lack and thus to proclaim the superiority of love to war. Published Online: 2017/06/26 07:48:51 Object Identifier: 0xc1aa5576 0x00369748 Rights: . INHALT
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