Heroes and marriage in archaic Greek poetry: Homer, Bacchylides, Pindar
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https://doi.org/10.22409/1v55we34Keywords:
wedding, epic, melic, mythAbstract
The world of the gámos (“wedding”) is central to the bipartite life of women, as critical fortune well states, and the poetic imagination projects it in this way. Its importance in male life, however, and especially in the transition from youth to adulthood, should be more explored, as I will do here, focusing on three characters: Telemachus in the Odyssey (book 15); Theseus in Bacchylides’ Dithyramb 17; Pelops in Pindar’s Olympian 1. We will see how, in each distinct poetic genre – epic poetry, melic poetry (dithyramb and epinician) – and in the manner of each composition, the passages of the young heroes to the condition of adult men are retold in narratives that combine physical action (in the arena of the adventure or in that of the games) and marriage.
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