Puella divina. Die Gestalt der göttlichen Geliebten bei Catull im Zusammenhang der antiken Dichtung. - LIEBERG, G.,
KORTE INHOUD
?The comparison of a beautiful woman to a goddess is found regularly in European verse from Homer to modern army songs; Lieberg, as his subtitle shows, is concerned mainly (?) with the occurrence of this motif in Catullus. (?) He believes that the name Lesbian was intended to suggest Sappho, the tenth Muse and connects such associations with the topos of the beloved as source of inspiration (?). Thus to Catullus Lesbian is a mortal muse. In addition he passion of the poet is to be seen rivaling that of Sappho in its intensity, and Lesbian as similar to a girl in a ?thiasos ?(p.94). Such is Lieberg?s search for complex poetical overtones; this manner of interpretation goes beyond the kind of information that is to be found in the standard modern commentaries. (?) Lieberg regards the simile of Atalanta?s apple (2B) as part of the preceding ?passer? poem (2): the description of unfulfilled passion is followed by a contrasting mythological picture of a love that was happily fulfilled. (?) The work ends with a sh...
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Amsterdam, 1962. 343p. Original burgundy gilt titled cloth. Upper edge publisher's stained. With gift intention from the author to Professor Otto Weinreich on free endpaper. Commercial edition diss. Philosophischen Fakultät Universität Tübingen. [Antiquarian] [Auteur: LIEBERG, G.,] [Uitgever: Schippers] [Jaar: 1962] [Titel: Puella divina. Die Gestalt der göttlichen Geliebten bei Catull im Zusammenhang der antiken Dichtung.]
