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Therefore, the various degrees of probability in ancient myth may acquire a different generic or aesthetic dimension for the poets. 11 This dichotomy is best exemplified by the splitting of the Odyssey into the scenario of вЂThe Homecoming HusbandвЂ™ and the one pertaining to the incredible adventures of the wandering sailor. 10 According to ancient and modern definitions of the fantastic, myth may comprise realistic narrations, with a mimetic or вЂlife-likeвЂ™ quality, but also paradoxical, marvellous stories, fairytales impossible in terms of reality the first take place in вЂthis worldвЂ™, the latter are set in alternative вЂotherworldsвЂ™. 9 The marvellous, a category of the fantastic that does not presuppose a conflict between the real and the imaginary, takes place in a realm dominated by wonder. When set i (.)Д¦Euphorion is attracted by the marvellous. вЂFantasyвЂ™: вЂњA fantasy text is a self-coherent narrative. 54-57, who observes, among other things, that вЂњth (.)

10 This is the definition given by Todorov 1975, p.

9 Perhaps the term wonder tale, deriving from modern theoretical approaches to the fantastic, is app (.).

Though anachronistic, this line of reasoning is based on certain ideological and cultural analogies between the Hellenistic and the Romantic era вЂ“ the emphasis on imagination and individuality, the invention of a new sensibility, the portrayal of human passions, the emergence of fantasy and the growing importance of visualization and sensationalism in art it is therefore a new lens through which Alexandrian poetics, and especially Euphorion, may be re-viewed and re-assessed.

Yet, since these categories have also played a formative role in the development of modern-day movements, primarily Romanticism and Decadence, this study attempts to draw a parallel between Euphorion and 19th century aesthetics too. As introduced here the term вЂdarknessвЂ™ comprises the fantastic, the morbid, the horrifying and the uncanny.

8 For the use of the same method in the interpretation of Apollonius, Lycophron and Nicander and, by (.)ДҐThe present study offers an overview of stories and motifs that highlight the dark side of EuphorionвЂ™s aesthetics.

5 Parthenius seems to have been the connection between Alexandria and Rome, and it is through him that Euphorion became a model for the elegist Cornelius Gallus and the dark love poet Cinna. 4 A common thread connecting Euphorion especially with Parthenius (and setting Callimachus apart) is definitely their taste for sensationalism, expressed by the preference for morbid love stories. Yet, numerous ancient testimonies rank Euphorion alongside other representatives of a new, post-Alexandrian sensibility, most notable of which are Lycophron the obscure and Parthenius of Nicaea. Lexical and mythological antiquarianism unites the two poets. Euphorion is indeed a paradox case because he is Callimachean and un-Callimachean at the same time. 6 See especially Crowther 1976 and the detailed discussion about the reception of Parthenius in Rome (.)ДЈBefore attempting an answer, it is critical to touch upon another complex question, that concerning the literary affinities of Euphorion.5 The first scholar to have analyzed the poetics of Euphorion from this perspective is Crump 1931, p (.).4 For an overview of EuphorionвЂ™s Alexandrian models, see Magnelli 2002, p.1 Obviously this is not our Euphorion вЂ“ but what if we fancied for a moment that Goethe dramatized the emerging, dark Romantic poetry by alluding to the obscure, sensational poet from Hellenistic Chalcis? 9863) вЂ“ thus paying tribute to the great Romantic poet Byron. Goethe models his own Euphorion upon this mythological figure by adding a subtle detail: he makes him a poetвЂ“an allegory of pure poetry, of the heilige Poesie (as explicitly said in l. According to a rare legend attributed to the grammarian Ptolemy Hephaestion and attested by Photius ( Bibliotheca, 190.149a), Helen bore to Achilles a son called Euphorion on the Isles of the Blessed, who died at an early age struck by ZeusвЂ™ thunderbolt. Often considered a drama in itself, Act III from the second part of GoetheвЂ™s masterpiece focuses on Helen of Troy in its second scene, symbolically set in a shadowy grove of Arcadia, Helen bears a son to Faust called вЂEuphorionвЂ™. A case in point is Euphorion, one of the dramatis personae in the third act of GoetheвЂ™s Faust.

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1 In one of his conversations with the German poet Johann Peter Eckermann, Goethe confesses: вЂњEuphor (.)ДЎLiterature is full of enigmas, ambiguous meanings, polysemous symbols.