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| - | :''[[medieval erotica]], [[Sheela na Gig]], [[corbel]], [[Baubo]]'' | + | '''Iamb''', '''iambus''', or '''iambic''' may refer to: |
| + | ==Meter and poetry== | ||
| + | ===Classical poetry and quantitative verse=== | ||
| + | * [[Iamb (foot)]] | ||
| + | * [[Choliamb]] | ||
| + | * [[Iambic trimeter]] | ||
| + | * [[Iambus (genre)]] | ||
| - | '''Baubo''' is an [[old woman]] in [[Greek mythology]] who jested with [[Demeter]] when she was mourning the loss of her daughter [[Persephone]]. | + | ===Accentual-syllabic and syllabic verse=== |
| + | * [[Iamb (foot)]] | ||
| + | * [[Iambic trimeter#Accentual-syllabic iambic trimeter]] | ||
| + | * [[Iambic tetrameter]] | ||
| + | * [[Iambic pentameter]] | ||
| + | * [[Iambic hexameter]], or the alexandrine | ||
| + | * [[Iambic heptameter]], or the fourteener | ||
| - | In his ''[[Greek Myths]]'', [[Robert Graves]] writes that Demeter (in disguise) was the guest of King Celeus in [[Eleusis]]. The lame daughter of the King, [[Iambe]], "tried to console Demeter with comically lascivious verses, and a dry nurse, old Baubo, persuaded her to drink barley-water by a jest: she groaned as if in great travail and, unexpectedly, produced from beneath her skirt Demeter's own son [[Iacchus]], who leapt into his mother's arms and kissed her." Graves writes, "Iambe and Baubo personify the obscene songs, in [[iamb]]ic metre, which were sung to relieve emotional tension at the [[Eleusinian Mysteries]]; but Iambe, Demeter, and Baubo form the familiar [[Triad (relationship)|triad]] of maiden, nymph, and [[crone]]. Old nurses in Greek myth nearly always stand for the goddess as crone." | + | ==Other uses== |
| - | + | * [[Iamb (band)]] | |
| - | The following excerpt is taken from [[Clement of Alexandria]]'s ''[[Exhortation to the Greeks]]'' | + | * [[Iambic keyer]] |
| - | + | * [[Iambic Productions]] | |
| - | "Baubo, having received Demeter as a guest, offers her a draught of wine and meal. She declines to take it, being unwilling to drink on account of her mourning. Baubo is deeply hurt, thinking she has been slighted, and thereupon uncovers her secret parts and exhibits them to the goddess. Demeter is pleased at the sight, and now at least receives the draught, – delighted by the spectacle! These are the secret mysteries of the Athenians! These are also the subjects of Orpheus’ poems. I will quote you the very lines of Orpheus, in order that you may have the originator of the mysteries as witness of their shamelessness:" | + | * {{Ill2|Dionysius Iambus|ca|Dionís Iàmbic|de|Dionysios Iambos}}, grammarian |
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| - | "This said, she drew aside her robes, and showed a sight of shame; child Iacchus was there, and laughing, plunged his hand below her breasts. Then smiled the goddess, in her heart she smiled, and drank the draught from out the glancing cup." | + | |
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| - | == Baubo figurines == | + | |
| - | Figurines known as Baubos are found in a number of settings usually with Greek connections. Mass produced, they came in a number of styles but the basic figure always exposed the [[vulva]] in some way. | + | |
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| - | * A plump figure with her legs held apart gesturing to her exposed vulva. | + | |
| - | * A naked splay-legged figure holding a harp on the back of a boar. | + | |
| - | * A naked headless torso with the face in the body and the vulva in the chin of the face. | + | |
| - | * A seated figure with an exaggerated vulva filling the space between the legs | + | |
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| - | The figures usually had elaborate headdresses and some hold cups or harps. Some figures have a suspension loop moulded into the head which seems to indicate that they were suspended in some way possibly as some sort of amulet. | + | |
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| - | ==Books== | + | |
| - | * [[Margaret Murray]]. "Female Fertility Figures" ''Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute'' Vol. LXIV 1934 | + | |
| - | * Lubell, Winifred Milius. "The Metamorphosis of Baubo." Nashville: Vanderbilt University Press, 1994 | + | |
| - | The following two books are mostly about medieval sexual sculpture but both have sections on Baubo | + | |
| - | * Anthony Weir & James Jerman, ''[[Images of Lust: Sexual Carvings on Medieval Churches]]'' 1986 | + | |
| - | * Dr Jørgen Andersen, ''The Witch on the Wall: Medieval Erotic Sculpture in the British Isles'' 1977 | + | |
| ==See also== | ==See also== | ||
| - | *[[Sheela na Gig]], figurative carvings of naked women displaying an exaggerated vulva | + | * [[Iambe]] |
| - | *[[Anasyrma]], the gesture of lifting up the skirt or kilt | + | |
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Iamb, iambus, or iambic may refer to:
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Meter and poetry
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Classical poetry and quantitative verse
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Accentual-syllabic and syllabic verse
- Iamb (foot)
- Iambic trimeter#Accentual-syllabic iambic trimeter
- Iambic tetrameter
- Iambic pentameter
- Iambic hexameter, or the alexandrine
- Iambic heptameter, or the fourteener
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Other uses
- Iamb (band)
- Iambic keyer
- Iambic Productions
- Template:Ill2, grammarian
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See also
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