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- Title
Honey and the Indecency of Epicurus' aurea dicta (DRN 3.12).
- Authors
Pope, Michael
- Abstract
In this article the aurea dicta of Epicurus (DRN 3.12) are placed in conversation with larger discourses related to apian, floral, and honey imagery. Within these literary contexts, bees and honey are often associated with morally suspect appetites, effeminacy, and potentially dangerous erotic entanglements. Lucretius, I argue, seems to allude to these risky literary valences and manipulates them for his own poetic and rhetorical ends. Honey, we discover, is much more than a sugary substance.
- Subjects
LUCRETIUS Carus, Titus, ca. 99 B.C.-55 B.C.; HONEY; OBSCENITY (Law); HONEYBEES
- Publication
Philologus -- Zeitschrift für Antike Literatur und Ihre Rezeption, 2023, Vol 167, Issue 2, p214
- ISSN
0031-7985
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1515/phil-2022-0051