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epithalamium| Genre of poetry or song devised for a wedding, and specifically to be performed outside the married couple's room. First examples survive from Ancient Greece (for example, by the Roman poet Catullus), but the best examples are from the Renaissance, including the English poet Edmund Spenser's Epithalamion. Later poets, including the English John Dryden and Percy Bysshe Shelley, followed this example and, in the 20th Century, so did the English-born US poet W H Auden. |
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| The Parthenica itself represents the impressive range of styles utilized by Weston and by other Neo-Latinists, including elegies, epitaphs, epithalamia, and shorter verse forms such as epigrams, as well as a sampling of Weston's extensive correspondence with family members, friends, and scholars, and, most particularly, with would-be patrons. Epithalamia were delivered at banquets and sometimes in or in front of churches. [28] Moreover, Catullus 64, as one of the exemplary epithalamia Antiquity wills to the Renaissance, proves to be especially consonant with the thematic contents of "Sur des vers de Virgile," a text concerned for major stretches with the sexual, moral, and social aspects of marriage. |