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Astery's Transformation in Muiopotmos

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 December 2020

Charles W. Lemmi
Charles W. Lemmi*
Affiliation:
Goucher College
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Comment and Criticism
Information
PMLA , Volume 50 , Issue 3 , September 1935 , pp. 913 - 914
Copyright
Copyright © Modern Language Association of America, 1935

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References

1 Stanzas 15, 16 and 17.

2 Lactantius Placidus, Commentarii in Statii Thebaida (Teubner: Leipzig, 1898), iv; 226: Venus et Cupido, cum quodam tempore voluptatis gratia in quosdam nitentes discendissent campos, lasciva contentione certare coeperunt, qui plus sibi gemmantes colligeret flores. Quorum Cupido, adiutus mobilitate pennarum, postquam naturam corporis volatu superavit, victus est numero. Peristera enim nympha subito accurrit et adiuvando Venerem superiorem efficit cum pœna sua. Cupido siquidem indignatus mutavit puellam in avem quæ a Gæcis appellata. Sed pcenam honor minuit. Venus, namque consolatura puellæ et innocentis transfigurationem, columbam in tutela sua esse mandavit.

3 Cf. I. E. Rathborne, “Another Interpretation of Muiopotmos,” PMLA, xlix, 1061.

4 Cf. Lemmi, “The Allegorical Meaning of Spenser's Muiopotmos,” in PMLA, xlv (1930), 732–748.