CONTENT WARNING: attempted sexual assault
The common denominator in assault myths is not the victim's gender, but their beauty.
εὕδεις φυλλοστρῶτι
πέδῳ, Δάφνι, σῶμα κεκμακὸς
ἀμπαύων στάλικες
δ᾽ ἀρτιπαγεῖς ἀν᾽ ὄρη.
ἀγρεύει δέ τυ
Πάν, καὶ ὁ τὸν κροκόεντα Πρίηπος
κισσὸν ἐφ᾽ ἱμερτῷ
κρατὶ καθαπτόμενος,
... ἀλλὰ τὺ φεῦγε,
φεῦγε, μεθεὶς ὕπνου
κῶμα καταρχόμενον.
Dum vari in
summis stant montibus, aequore campi
Frondibus
instrato te sopor altus habet,
Daphni [pastor], Faunus te capta[bi]t & ipse Priapus,
Tempora sub
crocea cui titubant hedera,
... effuge Daphni,
effuge, nec somno
mergere, sed vigila.
--Theocritus, Greek Anthology IX.388.1-4, 6; Translated into Latin by Eoranus Hess, 1781
Daphnis,
You are worn out
And sleeping
on a leafy bed
with your snares set
on the mountaintop.
But Pan is hunting you,
And Priapus, too, with his crown woven with ivy &
crocuses...
Flee! Shake off your sleep and wake up!
THEOCRITUS |
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Name: Theocritus Date: 3rd c. BCE Works:
Bucolics Idylls |
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BIO: |
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Little is known about the life of Theocritus
except that he was a 3rd century BCE Greek poet from Sicily. He was
a prolific writer, and many of his works are still extant. His pastoral
poetry influenced the works of Virgil. |
HELLENISTIC GREEK |
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