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Elements Supporting the Thesis of Dual Authorship of Aristaenetus' Erotic Letters
Elements Supporting the Thesis of Dual Authorship of Aristaenetus' Erotic Letters // Malta Classics Association, Second Annual Conference of Contemporary Research in Classics
Malta, 2022. (predavanje, međunarodna recenzija, neobjavljeni rad, znanstveni)
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Naslov
Elements Supporting the Thesis of Dual Authorship of
Aristaenetus' Erotic Letters
Autori
Hajdarević, Sabira
Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
Sažeci sa skupova, neobjavljeni rad, znanstveni
Skup
Malta Classics Association, Second Annual Conference of Contemporary Research in Classics
Mjesto i datum
Malta, 24.03.2022. - 26.03.2022
Vrsta sudjelovanja
Predavanje
Vrsta recenzije
Međunarodna recenzija
Ključne riječi
Aristaenetus ; authorship
Sažetak
The epistolary collection entitled Erotic Letters, usually attributed to Aristaenetus, was written in the 5th or 6th century AD. It consists of 50 letters divided into two books, Book I containing 28 and Book II containing 22 of them. The Collection is either damaged or unfinished ; the latter part of the last letter (i.e. II. 22) is missing, maybe some subsequent letters as well. Even a superficial reading points to some differences between the letters of Books I and II, the very quality of the letters being the most obvious one. I intend to scrutinize the letters of Books I and II separately in order to compare: - their formal characteristics (e.g. the length of the letters) - their display of epistolary elements (1st and 2nd person narrative, the usage of opening or closing greeting formulas, vocatives, imperatives etc.) - the appellation of the correspondents (real historical persons, “borrowed” literary characters or speaking names, coined especially for the individual letter) - their intertextuality (the choice of the source text and its usage: quotation verbatim, paraphrase, allusion) - the levels of nudity and/or erotica displayed (ranging from “chaste” to “spicy” letters, describing seduction or even the sexual act itself) - the ratio of adulteries and relationships with hetairai vs. other kinds of relationships and - (potential) differences in moral attitudes towards adultery, threesomes, sex in a public place, relationships with hetairai etc. between the Books. The thesis I intend to prove (or disapprove) is that the entire Book II was actually written by another author. Book I itself might be a complete, finished collection (written by Aristaenetus?), while Book II perhaps represents somebody else's unfinished and/or poorly executed attempt, or even an imitation of the letters of Book I.
Izvorni jezik
Engleski
Znanstvena područja
Filologija, Književnost
