JOURNAL ARTICLE

Honey and the Indecency of Epicurus' aurea dicta (DRN 3.12).

  • Published In: Philologus -- Zeitschrift für Antike Literatur und Ihre Rezeption, 2023, v. 167, n. 2. P. 214 1 of 3

  • Database: Humanities Source Ultimate 2 of 3

  • Authored By: Pope, Michael 3 of 3

Abstract

In this article the aurea dicta of Epicurus (DRN 3.12) are placed in conversation with larger discourses related to apian, floral, and honey imagery. Within these literary contexts, bees and honey are often associated with morally suspect appetites, effeminacy, and potentially dangerous erotic entanglements. Lucretius, I argue, seems to allude to these risky literary valences and manipulates them for his own poetic and rhetorical ends. Honey, we discover, is much more than a sugary substance. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Additional Information

  • Source:Philologus -- Zeitschrift für Antike Literatur und Ihre Rezeption. 2023/11, Vol. 167, Issue 2, p214
  • Document Type:Article
  • Subject Area:History
  • Publication Date:2023
  • ISSN:00317985
  • DOI:10.1515/phil-2022-0051
  • Accession Number:173558238
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