Theocritus,Idyll11.13–18: Galatea as Thetis Manquée
Affiliation:
1. Department of Classics, Queen’s University,
Abstract
The figure of Polyphemus’ mother in Theocritus, Idyll 11 calls to mind the wooing of another reluctant sea-nymph, Thetis, by Peleus. While in that story ἔρις is cast down from heaven to earth, in Polyphemus’ affair with Galatea he sublimates the ἔρως he cannot consummate from procreation into creating art. Echoes of Pindar and Empedocles help to connect these two stories.
Publisher
University of Toronto Press Inc. (UTPress)
Subject
Archeology,Archeology,Classics