AcontiusCydippe1.0007_Giraud

AcontiusCydippe1.0007_Giraud

OGCMA s.v. "Acontius and Cydippe"
Oxford Music Online s.v. "Giraud, F-J.

François-Joseph Giraud (?-ca. 1790), Acanthe et Cydippe, opera (pastorale héroique), with libretto by Maximilian-Jean Boutillier (cf. 1.0009_Froment), parody of Rameau's Acante et Céphise, first performed 1764, Théâtre de Nicolet, Paris.

Cyr, Mary, and Valerie Walden. 2001. Oxford Music Online s.v. "Giraud, François-Joseph," https://doi.org/10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.article.11206

The image at right is a depiction of Bor's Cydippe (2.0001_Bor), used because I have found no suitable image for Giraud or his opera.

A woman in blue and white holds a golden orb, surrounded by symbolic elements like a skull and garlands

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.

OGCMA slides are designed by Roger T. Macfarlane for use in Classical Civilization 241 courses at Brigham Young University.
The present resource contains information assembled for The Oxford Guide to Classical Mythology in the Arts, 1300 - 1990's, edited by J. Davidson Reid (Oxford 1994), and it is used with express permission from Oxford University press.
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