1. What’s Love Got to Do with It?
Daphnis & Chloe, Marc Chagall
What’s Love Got to Do with It?
Longus Daphnis & Chloe

2. What’s love (erōs) got to do with it?
“Astylus laughed merrily at this last remark in particular, and said that Love made people very good at special pleading (lit. “Eros makes people into great sophists”)....” (Longus Daphnis and Chloe bk. 4 sect. 18)
What’s love (erōs) got to do with it?

3. Reading of prooimion....

4. “WHEN I was hunting in Lesbos, I saw, in a wood sacred to the Nymphs, the most beautiful thing that I have ever seen – a painting that told a love-story. The wood itself was beautiful enough, full of trees and flowers, and watered by a single spring which nourished both the flowers and the trees; but the picture was even more delightful, combining excellent technique with a romantic subject. It had become so famous that crowds of people used to go there even from abroad, partly to pray to the Nymphs, but mainly to see the picture.

5. “In it there were women having babies and other women wrapping them in swaddling clothes, babies being exposed, sheep and goats suckling them, shepherds picking them up, young people plighting their troth, pirates making a raid, enemies starting an invasion.

6. “After gazing admiringly at many other scenes, all of a romantic nature, I was seized by a longing to write a verbal equivalent to the painting. So I found someone to explain the picture to me, and composed a work in four volumes as an offering to Love and the Nymphs and Pan, and as a source of pleasure for the human race –

7. “… something to heal the sick and comfort the afflicted, to refresh the memory of those who have been in love and educate those who have not. For no one has ever escaped Love altogether, and no one ever will, so long as beauty exists and eyes can see. But as for me, I hope that the god will allow me to write of other people’s experiences, while retaining my own sanity.”

8. Agenda Recap and Update Journal-Prompt Discussion What’s a Classic?
What is It (D&C)? Is It Sophistic?
Longus Daphnis and Chloe
19-apr 2018

9. Recap and Update
What’s a Classic?

10. What Do You Think a Classic Is?
What’s “classic” about Classics?
What’s "classic" about Fronto’s models?
Are our Imperial Greek Writers “classics”?
In privileging “classics,” do we silence the new, the non-elite, the innovative?
Longus Daphnis and Chloe
19-apr 2018

11. Word Notes Latin roots Other derivatives
“Classic” (adjective, noun) <
classicus, “elite/upper class” <
classis, “(social/economic) class”
Classical
“Of/pertaining to classics”
Classicize
“Imitate classics”
Longus Daphnis and Chloe
19-apr 2018

12. Early Imperial Period (1st–3rd cents.)
Classicizing tendencies
Rhetoric
Other literature
Innovating tendencies
zēlos/“emulation” = competitive imitation (of past models)
Longus Daphnis and Chloe
19-apr 2018

13. If Panthea is such a “classic,” can she still be herself?
Lucian Portraits
If Panthea is such a “classic,” can she still be herself?

14. Generic Mixing rhetorical critique enkōmion Lucian Portraits ekphrasis
dicanic — agōn!
rhetorical critique

15. Lucian Portraits: Themes
A Portrait Study
Defense of the Portrait Study
epideictic (enkōmion) agōn
Lycinus
Praise of Panthea’s body
Recourse to models
Polystratus
Praise of Panthea’s soul
Insufficiency of past models
Esp. as regards paideia
dicanic agōn
Panthea’s demurral (of Lycinus)
Exaggerated praise/flattery
Emperor’s clothes
Implied critique of rhetoric
Lycinus’ reply (defense from genre)
Sincere, not self-interested
Rhetorical license (exaggeration)
Comparison human art (not divinity)
sould = character, intellect, all those “internal” traits.
Poly. Courtesy, benevolence : that is now my subject. I
have to show forth her gentle disposition, her graciousness to
suppliants. She shall appear in the likeness of Theano—
Antenor's Theano this time—, of Arete and her daughter
Nausicaa, and of every other who in her high station has borne
herself with constancy. Next comes constancy of another kind, 20
—constancy in love ; its original, the daughter of Icarius,
' constant ' and ' wise,' as Homer draws her ; am I doing more
than justice to his Penelope ? And' there is another : our lady's
namesake, Abradatas's wife ; of her we have already spoken.
she succeeds in mixing gracefully at the social level, in not arousing envy. l divinizes her. p rather humanizes her. lysinus objectifies her.
note as well implied critique of purely classicizing praise – of enkomion as exercise in paideia. yet is p’s enkomion any less paideia
pantheaś critique of exaggeration of a piece with her modesty and social grace. don’t arouse human or divine envy, in effect.
Lycinus’ reply
I regret omission of the soul
Your demurrls only add credit
Sincere, not self-interested
Rhetorical license (exaggeration)
Comparison human art (not divinity)
Longus Daphnis and Chloe
19-apr 2018

16. Daphnis & Chloe: Basic Facts
Composition date
ca. 200 CE
Setting
“Classical” Lesbos
Genre
Prose romance
Bucolic
aka pastoral
Bildungsroman
Education in erōs
New Comedy
Marriage & household
“Second sophistic”
Allusive, rhetorical
Aphrodite, Eros, Pan (1st BCE)
Title Group of Aphrodite & Pan Date B.C Material Marble Description From Delos Repository Ethnikon Archaiologikon Mouseion (Greece) Subject Sculpture--Greek: Hellenistic B.C Collection The Image Gallery Source Data from: University of California, San Diego Download Size 1024,1024
Daphnis & Chloe 1

17. D&C: Analysis PROLOGUE BOOK 1 BOOK 2 BOOK 2 (cont.) BOOK 3 BOOK 4
D&C: Analysis
PROLOGUE
nature / art
creative erōs
madness / sanity
BOOK 1
birth, rearing, education in nature
Eros – who’s that?
wolf-trap, D objectified
Dorcon “wolf”
D/C switch clothes
Pirates: C rescues D
BOOK 2
vintage fest, Chloe oggled
Philetas
education in eros
homoerotic attraction
age issues
eros illness, cure
BOOK 2 (cont.)
Methymnian louts
Daphnis “tried”
war, C abducted, country v. town
BOOK 3
winter separation
D’s “more ingenuity than a girl”
Lycaenion courts D
echo: D understands, C doesn’t
C’s/D’s marriage to – others?
D’s windfall
BOOK 4
Lampis courts C
Gnathon courts D
Lampis kidnaps C
parentage revealed, wedding approved
Daphnis:
A herder; his name is a conventional herder's name in bucolic poetry. ("And to ensure that the child's name should sound adequately pastoral ....") Reared by
Lamon and Myrtale
Chloe:
Also a herder. Her name means "green young shoot" or "foliage." Reared by
Dryas and Nape
Dorcon:
In Greek, "Roe-Deer," called dorkon/dorkas, a species so-called from its large eyes (from the verb dedorkenai, "to gaze"). Our Dorcon is another herder, and, for a while, a rival to Daphnis. His name represents him as getting an eyeful of Chloe, i.e., as a kind of embodiment of the desiring gaze.
Philetas:
An older herder, he has the same name as the Philetas who was teacher to Theocritus, the bucolic poet. Our Philetas also teaches, in a sense, our lovers — how?
Lycaenion:
A woman from town, wife to the rather old, but evidently free, Chromis. Her name means "Little She-Wolf" — significant, perhaps, in some way? (See terms.)
Lampis:
Another herder, and another rival to Daphnis. How does he figure into things?
Astylus:"Urbane," "City Slicker," son of Daphnis' master,
Dionysophanes,
who is married to
Cleariste
Gnathon:
"Ravenous Mouth," Astylus' sidekick (the Greek word for "sidekick" is parasitos, and yes, he is rather parasitic) — how does he figure vis-à-vis Daphnis?
CLA77, Andrew Scholtz

18. Journal-Prompt Discussion
What is It (D&C)? Is It Sophistic?