Antimachus of Colophon And the Position of Women in Greek Poetry
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xii. 258. A further fact worth noticing is that abstract love-poems (« g. xii. 50) are regularly placed among the IlaiSiKd. ' The reader will perhaps be thinking of another love " passing the love of women." One might write many pages on the differences between these two similar emotions. G 82 Women in Greek Poetry. In other words, while the love of man to woman was among the early Greeks a love of the senses, the love of man to man was a love of the soul. Of the Iliad we have spoken already, a...nd we need not speak further, for though, as we have already pointed out, the relations between various of the Greek heroes there described are strong presumptive evidence of a state of affairs parallel to that which we know to have existed in historical times,^ it is in the nature of an epic to be unable to supply proof of so positive a kind as is to be found in lyric poetry, which is generally, anyhow in early times, the ex- pression of the writer's actual feelings with reference to actual surrounding circumstances.
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