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NOTES ~2146. Quoted in Couliano, Eros and Magic in the Renaissance, p. 151.47. Agostino Carracci did, it must be noted, also produce much more graphicallysexual work that some might think borders on the pornographic. It was,however, suppressed-although even in this work he made an effort to connectwith the mythical past: almost all Carracci's happily coupling couples in theselatter works are named Jupiter, Juno, Hercules, Deianira, and the like. For a discussion,see David 0. Frantz, Festum Voluptatis: A Study of Renaissance Erotica(Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 1989), pp. 118-39.48. Thomas F. Gossett, Race: The History of an Idea in America (New York:Schocken Books, 1965), pp. 3-16.49. Kurt von Fritz, "The Influence of Ideas on Ancient Greek Historiography,"in Philip P. Wiener, ed., Dictionary of the History of Ideas (New York: CharlesScribner's Sons, 1973), Volume II, pp. 499-511.50. Orlando Patterson, Slavery and Social Death: A Comparative Study (Cambridge:Harvard University Press, 1982), p. 178.51. A. Bartlett Giamatti, The Earthly Paradise and the Renaissance Epic(Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1966), p. 3.52. Homer, The Odyssey, translated by Walter Shewring (Oxford: OxfordUniversity Press, 1980), p. 48.53. Hesiod, Theogony and Works and Days, translated with an introductionby M.L. West (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1988), pp. 41-42.54. Ibid., pp; 40-41.55. Giamatti, Earthly Paradise and the Renaissance Epic, p. 20.56. Hesiod, Theogony and Works and Days, pp. 43-44.57. Ibid., p. 44.58. Giamatti, Earthly Paradise and the Renaissance Epic, pp. 30, 32.59. The best study of this subject, on which much of the present discussiondraws, is John Block Friedman, The Monstrous Races in Medieval Art and Thought(Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1981).60. Ibid., pp. 34-36.61. Quoted in ibid., pp. 91-92.62. Quoted in ibid., p. 73.63. Richard Bernheimer, Wild Men in the Middle Ages: A Study in Art, Sentiment,and Demonology (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1952), p. 1.64. Hayden White, "The Forms of Wildness: Archaeology of an Idea," in EdwardDudley and Maximillian E. Novak, ed., The Wild Man Within: An Image ofWestern Thought from the Renaissance to Romanticism (Pittsburgh: University ofPittsburgh Press, 1972), p. 24; Russell, Witchcraft in the Middle Ages, p. 50. Formore on this theme, see Bernheimer, Wild Men in the Middle Ages, pp. 121-75.65. Alexander Heidel, The Gilgamesh Epic and Old Testament Parallels (Chicago:University of Chicago Press, 1949), p. 6.66. Paul Zweig, The Adventurer (New York: Basic Books, 1974), pp. 64-65.67. Ibid., p. 75; emphasis added.68. Bernheimer, Wild Men in the Middle Ages, p. 19.69. Turner, Beyond Geography, p. 205.70. Quoted in E.M.Y. Tillyard, The Elizabethan World Picture (New York:Vintage Books, n.d.), pp. 26-27.71. Anthony Pagden, The Fall of Natural Man: The American Indian and the