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Cinna and Crassicius: Promiscuity, Incest and the Erotics of Commentary.

This paper argues that an anonymous epigram about the commentator Crassicius marrying Cinna's Zmyrna is a satirical poem playfully evoking the incest of Zmyrna in order to make a more pointed critique of the genre of commentary. The poem suggests that like Zmyrna herself, the Zmyrna is libidinous, a...

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Published in:Mnemosyne Vol. 73; no. 2; pp. 243 - 261
Main Author: Conrau-Lewis, Kyle
Format: Article
Published: Brill Academic Publishers 2020
Subjects:
Erotica
Literary criticism
Comparative literature
Philology
Linguistics
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