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1 All translations follow Allen Mandelbaum, The Metamorphoses of Ovid, whose page numbers I cite since his lines are unnumbered. The corresponding Latin quotations are from William S. Anderson, ed., P. Ovidii Nasonis: Metamorphoses. COMPARATIVE LITERATURE /206 Bernadette Brooten explains, for example, that in order to rescue Sapphoâs poetry from her renowned homoeroticism, writers throughout history have displaced her desire and affection for women either onto a depraved prostitute of the same name or into a heteronormative conversion of sorts, in which she fell in love with a ferryman named Phaon, because of whom she then committed suicide. In either account, Sapphoâs lesbianism is made safely to disappear (Love Between Women 38).2 Judith Hallett similarly demonstrates that elite Latin writers in Rome, with the exception of one satiric example, obscured the existence of contemporary female homoeroticism by masculinizing, Hellenizing, and anachronizing its representation: âfemale homoeroticism was an undifferentiated, unassimilated conglomeration of alien and unnatural Greek behaviors, which did not really take place in their own milieu orâif it did occurâdid so in a completely unrealistic wayâ (223). And despite many theoretical and institutional strides that have helped to uncloset the alterity of classical erotics, Ann Pellegrini believes that
Comparative Literature – Duke University Press
Published: Jan 1, 2006
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