{"id":"01KG8B587Z4WMVR97CD50NP1KV","cid":"bafkreidyj63dxvhq3qydppu3bjoybtnydhwejyvza5tx2tst5udgftqbem","type":"file","properties":{"cid":"bafkreid2ucjasq7im2z7larsadymtgkmjhqwbztst2lfdamn7b6yxapkhy","content_type":"image/jpeg","filename":"02_venus_and_adonis_1905_facsimile_page_0145.jpg","height":2400,"key":"pdf-page-1769806643967-inzrvo3uvug","label":"02_venus_and_adonis_1905_facsimile_page_0145.jpg","page_number":145,"pdf_type":"born_digital","size":571271,"text":"LUCRECE\n9\naccuses\ncontemporary\npoets in\nhis\nSonnets,\nIngenuity\nwas\nwasted\nin devising\n<\nwhat\nstrained\ntouches\nrhetoric couldlend\n' to\nepisodes\ncapable\nof\nnarration\nin\nplain\nwords.\nThere\nis\nmuch\nin\nthe\npoem\nwhich might\nbe\ncondemned\nin\nthe\npoet's\nown\nterminology\nas\nthe\n<\nhelpless\nsmoke\nof\nwords\n'.\nII\nThe\ntheme\nof\nShakespeare's\npoem\nwas\nnearly\nas\nwell-\nThe\nstory.\nworn\nin the\nliterature\nof\nWestern Europe\nas\nthat\nof\nhis\nfirst\npoem\nVenus and Adonis.\nFor\nmore\nthan\ntwenty\ncenturies\nbefore\nShakespeare\nwas born,\nthe\ntale\nof\nLucrece\nwas\nfamiliar\nto\nthe western\nworld.\nHer\ntragic fate\nwas\nthe accepted\nillustration\nof\nconjugal\nfidelity,\nnot\nonly\nthrough\nthe\nclassical\nera\nof\nRoman\nhistory,\nbut\nthrough\nthe\nMiddle\nAges.\nThe\nhold\nthat\nthe\ntale\nhad taken on\nthe\npopular imagination of\nEurope\nsurvived\nthe Renaissance, and\nwas stimulated\nby\nthe\nexpansion\nof\ninterest in the\nLatin\nclassics.\nAmong\nLatin\nclassical\nauthors\nthe\nstory\nwas told\nin\nfullest\nClassical\ndetail\nby Livy\nin his\nHistory\nof\nRome\n(Bk.\ni,\nc.\nf\n7-9). Ovid\n^\"''^°\"\"\"-\nin his poetic Fasti\n(ii.\n7\n2\n1-8\n5-\n2)\ngave\na\nsomewhat\nmore\nsympathetic version\nof\nthe\nsame\ntraditional\ndetails\nwhich\nLivy\nrecorded.\nThe\nmain\noutlines\nof\nthe\nlegend\nfigured, too,\nwithout\nvariation in\nthe contemporary Greek\nhistorians,\nDionysius\nof\nHalicarnassus and\nDiodorus\nSiculus,\nand\nin their\nsuccessor,\nDio\nCassius,\nas\nwell as\nin\nthe\nwork\nof a\nlater\nLatin historian, Valerius\nMaximus.'\n'\nDionysius\nalone\ntells\nthe\nstory\nat\nlength.\nThe\nother\nwriters narrate\nit\nvery\nbriefly. Cf.\nDionysius\nof\nHalicarnassus, Antlquitatum\nRomanarum\nquaeiupersunt, ed.\nRiessling,\nvol.\nii,\nLeipzig,\nlU^\n; Dio Cassius, Hhtoria Romana,ed.\nMelber,\nvol.\nii,\nx.\nii-i8, Leipzig, 185)05 Diodorus\nSiculus,\n-B'thliotheca\nHtstorka^ ed. Dindorf,\nvol.\nii, lib. x.\nlo-zi, Leipzig, 18(^7; and\nValerius\nMaximus,\nFacta\net\nDicta\nMemorabilia^\nvi.\nI.\nI.\nIn three papers on\nShakespeare's\nPO^\"^\n—\nShakespeare's\nLucrece. Eine\nlitterarhistorische Untersuchung^\n—\nwhich\nappeared in Anglia^\nBand\nxxii, pp. 1-32, 3+5-(^3, 35)3-45'5\n(Halle,\n189^),\n6","text_extracted_at":"2026-01-30T20:57:23.967Z","text_extracted_by":"pdf-processor","text_has_content":true,"text_source":"born_digital","uploaded":true,"width":1632},"relationships":[{"peer":"01KG89K4X0DM39SSQK43XXG34R","predicate":"derived_from"},{"peer":"01KG89JREDR8WY5QQGYR5FZRDY","peer_type":"collection","predicate":"collection"}],"ver":2,"created_at":"2026-01-30T20:57:48.031Z","ts":"2026-01-30T20:58:35.202Z","edited_by":{"method":"manual","user_id":"01KFFH6ETXGRVD10WPNP3007D6"}}