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The Elegy opens with a snake bite foreshadowing seduction (more like madness, like Apollo losing his mind after getting shot by Cupid) ...
Which makes me wonder if "A" in Kierkegaard's Either/Or seducer was alluding to Boccaccio ... or maybe snakebite is a well established symbol for seduction.
— Jul 14, 2021 04:43PM
Which makes me wonder if "A" in Kierkegaard's Either/Or seducer was alluding to Boccaccio ... or maybe snakebite is a well established symbol for seduction.
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Apparently Alcibiades mentioned snakebite (a reference to Philoctetes) in Plato's Symposium. I don't remember that, but I was hoping to find hints of the Symposium in the Decameron (well, Symposium without the wine), because it feels like very similar in form and content.
— Jul 14, 2021 04:49PM
