The Cambridge Companion to Virgil 1997
DOI: 10.1017/ccol0521495393.020
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Sons and lovers: sexuality and gender in Virgil's poetry

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“…Xenophon: Socrates identifies an incest taboo as an unwritten law, the transgression of which produces defective offspring (Memorabilia IV. 4,7,8,9). Augustine: proposes that there is a natural aversion to incest and an "inherent sense of decency" that prevents it (City of God, 15.16).…”
Section: Political Theory 41(1)mentioning
confidence: 99%
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“…Xenophon: Socrates identifies an incest taboo as an unwritten law, the transgression of which produces defective offspring (Memorabilia IV. 4,7,8,9). Augustine: proposes that there is a natural aversion to incest and an "inherent sense of decency" that prevents it (City of God, 15.16).…”
Section: Political Theory 41(1)mentioning
confidence: 99%
“…9 Plutarch: investigates why Romans don't marry women who are near kin (Moralia, 4) and ponders incest while writing about the incestuous dreams of Julius Caesar (Life of Caesar, 32.6). 10 Tacitus: perceives the ability of an incest taboo to create alliances among the Romans, observing that a man's influence is proportionate to the number of relatives he has acquired through marriage (Agricola and the Germania, ch.…”
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“…_____________ 22 Fowler (1987), 187 (siehe auch Oliensis [1997], 308 [zur Aeneis]: »Martial and marital wounds are consangineous throughout the epic«). Ein besonders hervorstechendes Beispiel ist der Tod der Camilla, einer weiblichen Kriegerin, die nun wirklich »jungfräuliches Blut« vergießt (Aen.…”
Section: Der Eros Des Kriegesunclassified
“…Ellen Oliensis writes that, 'In the world of Virgilian pastoral, girls are not singers; they do not perform, and while they are sometimes quoted, we never hear them speak'. 52 In the Aeneid, recalling Cato, women are 'alarming and violent creatures, prone to the making of terrible scenes', even embodying a 'clash between western civilization and the barbaric glitter and animal deities of the East'. When Cleopatra commanded her warships, 'Anubis barked and all manner of monstrous gods leveled their weapons'.…”
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