AcontiusCydippe1.0002_Spenser

AcontiusCydippe1.0002_Spenser

OGCMA s.v. "Acontius and Cydippe"
Ovid Ars Amatoria 1.457 ff.

Edmund Spenser, (Allusion to Actonius and Cydippe in ) The Fairie Queene 2.7.55 (London: Ponsonbie, 1590).

Acontius binds unwitting Cydippe to marriage by writing on an apple (or orange) the words "I will marry no man but Acontius." When Cydippe reads the oath, she is bound.

A tale originating with Callimachus, it was of interest to Ovid (the most Callimachean of the Roman poets?). Dryden is not the first, but perhaps the most influential English poet to treat the tale.

The edition excerpted at right is from the Everyman's Library, with introduction by J.W. Hales (Dutton: New York, 1910), as digitized in the Internet Archive (2011): ia801600.us.archive.org

Hamilton 1977

Hieatt 1975, pp. 204, 235f.

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