Callimachus'
            <i>Aetia</i>

Harder, Annette

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“…112 -Fantuzzi-Hunter 2004: 50-51. On Callimachus' Aetia and the central notion of multiple explanations in the programmatic fr.7a (on the genealogy of the Charites) see Harder 2012vol.2: 119ff. Cf.…”

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Callimachus and Hippocratic Gynecology Absent desire and the female body in ‘Acontius and Cydippe’ (Aetia FR.75.10-19 Harder)

Kazantzidis

2014

Eugesta

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This article invites a reading of Cydippe’s medical case in the third book of Callimachus’ Aetia (fr.75.10-19) in light of Hippocratic gynecology. In the first part, I discuss in detail Cydippe’s three illnesses, focusing on their rich medical allusions and illustrating how they all create a coherent medical record. While on the face of it Cydippe’s clinical symptoms resemble descriptions of lovesickness in Hellenistic poetry, it is precisely her absence of expressed desire, as I argue, that makes her sick in Callimachus, and thus differentiates her from other suffering female figures such as Medea in Apollonius Rhodius or Simaetha in Theocritus. In the second part, I move on to examine Callimachus’ problematisation of desire as an exclusively male prerogative in the narrative (that of Acontius) and I attempt to explain Cydippe’s dissociation from it by looking closely at the sexual politics of Hippocratic medicine: Cydippe’s silent transition from virgin to wife, and the illnesses that affect her so long as this transition is suspended evoke, as I illustrate, medical discussions on when and how virginity should be surrendered for a young girl to remain healthy ([Hipp.] De virginum morbis) as well as the Hippocratic notion that absence of desire defines both an adult woman’s sexual life but also the critical moment of her first sexual experience.

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Callimachus and Hippocratic Gynecology Absent desire and the female body in ‘Acontius and Cydippe’ (Aetia FR.75.10-19 Harder)

Kazantzidis

2014

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“…33 Call. F 101 and 101a Harder; for a commentary see Harder 2012, vol. 2, 767-770 and Manakidou 1993, 222-225.…”

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The Argonauts on Mount Dindymon

Giardini

2022

Mnemosyne

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This article explores the foundation of Cybele’s cult by the Argonauts on Mount Dindymon as narrated by Apollonius of Rhodes in Book 1 of the Argonautica. It will be maintained that the differences between the ritual described by the poet and the cultic practice attested to in the tradition can be explained as a reference to the myth of Dionysus’ purification in Phrygia, which was also staged in the Grand Procession of Ptolemy II. In particular, the presence of a Dionysiac sub-pattern will be detected in the mention of the vine used for carving the statue of Cybele, which has no parallel in other sources concerning the goddess and which is linked to Dionysus in other Hellenistic poems about cult statues. It will be claimed that the reference to the Dionysiac myth may hide a political message connected with Ptolemaic imperialist ambition in Anatolia and Greece in the 3rd century BC.

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Callimachus and Roman Elegy

Hunter

2012

A Companion to Roman Love Elegy

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Callimachus' Aetia

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Callimachus and Hippocratic Gynecology Absent desire and the female body in ‘Acontius and Cydippe’ (Aetia FR.75.10-19 Harder)

Callimachus and Hippocratic Gynecology Absent desire and the female body in ‘Acontius and Cydippe’ (Aetia FR.75.10-19 Harder)

The Argonauts on Mount Dindymon

Callimachus and Roman Elegy

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