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• W4293382135 abstract "330 PHOENIX The Discourse of Marriage in the Greco-Roman World. Edited by Jeffrey Beneker and Georgia Tsouvala. Madison and London: University of Wisconsin Press. 2020. Pp. ix, 269. This collection of essays had its genesis in a panel of the International Plutarch Society at the annual meeting of the Society for Classical Studies. Its purpose, as explained by Georgia Tsouvala in the Introduction, is to “understand the cultural and intellectual context of [Plutarch’s] late 1st-2nd c ce milieu and the tradition of the discourse that came before and after him” (4). Its eight chapters look at various “discourses” of marriage as found in Athenian vase painting, Roman historiographical and antiquarian writings, philosophy, Greek novels, and the works of Plutarch himself. Some chapters are more narrowly focused than others, but all are interesting. Despite its wide range, the book does not address all the many discourses of Greek or Roman marriage: legal discourse, for instance, is not treated (except briefly in the Introduction), nor is the representation of marital relationships in poetry, except of course in the epithalamium, the wedding poem. The first two chapters form a contrasting pair, with Rebecca H. Sinos on “Wedding Connections in Greek and Roman Art” followed by Karen Klaiber Hersch on “Violence at the Roman wedding.” Sinos’s brilliant and richly illustrated analysis of nuptial imagery on Athenian vases of the sixth through the fourth centuries b.c.e. opens with the intriguing fresco that covers the walls of one room of the Villa of the Mysteries at Pompeii. The fresco links the Dionysian mysteries with nuptial imagery, a connection between the wedding and initiation into mystery cult that suggests the joining of human and divine in the ceremony itself. Many vases depict the wedding procession from the bride’s house to the groom’s, while some illustrate the preparation of the bride by her mother and the friends from whom she must depart, a wrenching and disruptive experience. Most interesting is an unusual relief vase that shows the bride, virtually nude, revealing herself to her new husband in the bridal chamber—a unique depiction in art of the nuptial anakalypteria , the “uncovering.” By the fourth century, when this vase was made, “Eleusinian allusions were entering the picture” (45), and the bride’s unveiling mirrors the revelation to the initiated (here the groom) that lay at the heart of the Eleusinian mysteries. Sinos concludes that the vases suggest “transparency between the mortal world and the divine, as though the wedding can dissolve the boundary separating these two realms” (48). The end of the chapter returns to the Villa of the Mysteries fresco, with its combination of Dionysiac and wedding motifs: “the viewer sees the end, the blissful life, the aim of the wedding and of initiations, here represented by Dionysus leaning against a seated female figure who must be Ariadne” (50–51). Sinos briefly mentions that this “correspondence between divine image and mortal wedding” (33) can be found in literary descriptions of tapestries placed above the bridal bed, instancing a rendition of the wedding of Aphrodite and Ares on a tapestry described in The Ephesian Tale of Xenophon of Ephesus. An even more fitting example would be Catullus’ epyllion Carmen 64, which begins and ends with the celebration of the wedding of Peleus and Thetis, with its famous (and perhaps not particularly happy) joining of human and divine. The central part of the poem, however, is an extended ecphrasis of the bridal coverlet showing the mortal Ariadne, abandoned by Theseus, about to be rescued by Dionysus himself. By contrast, Karen Hersch’s “Violence in the Roman Wedding” could be sub-titled “Lie back and think of Rome.” Hersch sees every Roman wedding as a re-enactment BOOK REVIEWS/COMPTES RENDUS 331 of the violent abduction marriage of the Sabine women by Rome’s founder Romulus and his mateless followers which provided the foundational ideology of the Roman state. She mainly uses the famous accounts by Livy and his Greek contemporary, Dionysius of Halicarnassus, with later references from Pliny the Elder, the late second-century c.e. antiquarian Festus, and Plutarch himself. Although the story was known to republican Romans, it comes into..." @default.
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