The Spenser EncyclopediaA.C. Hamilton 'This masterly work ought to be The Elizabethan Encyclopedia, and no less.' - Cahiers Elizabethains |
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... Venus is said to have left her cestus 'On Acidalian mount, where many an howre/She with the pleasant Graces wont to play.' Venus herself can be 'the Acidalian.' The Acidale of FQ VI x is a culminating example of several related topoi of ...
... Venus is said to have left her cestus 'On Acidalian mount, where many an howre/She with the pleasant Graces wont to play.' Venus herself can be 'the Acidalian.' The Acidale of FQ VI x is a culminating example of several related topoi of ...
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... Venus bore away from Ida. As an acquired iconographical property, such a ball appears in the possession of Britomart. As an armed Venus who 'bore/The prayse of prowesse from them all away,' the martial maid is awarded the spoils of war ...
... Venus bore away from Ida. As an acquired iconographical property, such a ball appears in the possession of Britomart. As an armed Venus who 'bore/The prayse of prowesse from them all away,' the martial maid is awarded the spoils of war ...
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... Venus (Orlando furioso 11.70–1). Paris, confronted with a vision of three beauties, chooses among them, taking the part of the one representing the sensual part. Zeuxis, conversely, chose several models and combined their best parts to ...
... Venus (Orlando furioso 11.70–1). Paris, confronted with a vision of three beauties, chooses among them, taking the part of the one representing the sensual part. Zeuxis, conversely, chose several models and combined their best parts to ...
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... Venus and Mars; see Ovid Metamorphoses 4.171–84), then binds her in 'chaines of adamant' (xii 81–2). He destroys her Bower completely and restores her lovers to their human forms from the bestial forms they had assumed under her ...
... Venus and Mars; see Ovid Metamorphoses 4.171–84), then binds her in 'chaines of adamant' (xii 81–2). He destroys her Bower completely and restores her lovers to their human forms from the bestial forms they had assumed under her ...
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... Venus' intrusion, unlike that of Actaeon's, is propitious: Venus and Diana are reconciled, and there is no actual or figurative death. In addition to narrative and descriptive motifs, Spenser borrows an important theme from Ovid's ...
... Venus' intrusion, unlike that of Actaeon's, is propitious: Venus and Diana are reconciled, and there is no actual or figurative death. In addition to narrative and descriptive motifs, Spenser borrows an important theme from Ovid's ...
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