Honey and the Indecency of Epicurus’ aurea dicta (DRN 3.12)

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PHILOLOGUS Pub Date : 2023-11-01 DOI:10.1515/phil-2022-0051

Michael Pope

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Abstract

Abstract In this article the aurea dicta of Epicurus ( DRN 3.12) are placed in conversation with larger discourses related to apian, floral, and honey imagery. Within these literary contexts, bees and honey are often associated with morally suspect appetites, effeminacy, and potentially dangerous erotic entanglements. Lucretius, I argue, seems to allude to these risky literary valences and manipulates them for his own poetic and rhetorical ends. Honey, we discover, is much more than a sugary substance.

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蜂蜜与伊壁鸠鲁的不雅的权威论断(DRN 3.12)

在这篇文章中，伊壁鸠鲁的真言(DRN 3.12)被置于与蜜蜂、花卉和蜂蜜图像相关的更大话语的对话中。在这些文学语境中，蜜蜂和蜂蜜经常与道德上可疑的欲望、柔弱和潜在危险的情爱纠缠联系在一起。我认为，卢克莱修似乎暗指这些危险的文学价值，并为了自己的诗歌和修辞目的而操纵它们。我们发现，蜂蜜不仅仅是一种含糖物质。

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PHILOLOGUS CLASSICS-

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