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grbs-15247	Anagnostou-Laoutides, Eva	An Instance of Pathological Love in the Greek Anthology and Elizabethan Poetry	2015	25	.pdf	application/pdf	9313	420	63	Spearheading the tradition of love epigrams, Asclepiades is the first to suggest that his passion is improper and almost ab- normal.35 Consequently, Asclepiades’ employment of lascivious Danae, and therefore of all prostitutes featuring in his epigrams, must be understood as corroborating his careful characterization of the obsessed lover.36 In adapting the lyric emphasis on (pro- fessed) personal experience,37 which Asclepiades chose to place at the core of his poetry, he often invests it with references to Athenian drama. He refers to Danae again in 2.32.59–62 where he comments on Cynthia’s faithlessness, so typical of the attitude of contemporary Roman women in elegy, but also of legendary heroines who enjoyed furtive liaisons and accepted gifts in exchange for sexual favours.52 Danae is here compared to Pasiphae, the frenzied mistress of a bull, and appears to have been seduced rather than raped by Zeus.53 Propertius’ refer- ence to the rumours that tarnish Cynthia’s reputation and cas- tigate her acceptance of erotic gifts is obviously extended to the circumstances surrounding Pasiphae and Danae, emphasizing the Roman distrust of Danae’s account of her violation by Zeus.	cache/grbs-15247.pdf	txt/grbs-15247.txt