Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• William P. Weaver

Titel

Fabula: Observing ‘Amorous Rites’ in Hero and Leander

Ist Teil von

• Untutored Lines, 2012, p.47

Ort / Verlag

Edinburgh University Press

Erscheinungsjahr

2012

Link zum Volltext

Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Musaeus’ Hero and Leander, translated by the celebrated printer Aldus Manutius, praised by the formidable critic Julius Caesar Scaliger, and widely imitated in a number of vernacular tributes in the sixteenth century, was an ambitious model for an English poet to take up in the late sixteenth century.¹ From its earliest printings in the 1490s, the poem, thought to be by the legendary contemporary of Orpheus, was advertised as a primeval source of eloquence.² It was also thought to be the source of Ovid’s Heroides 18 and 19, and so offered to the aspiring Ovidian an unparalleled witness