Latin Erotic Elegy: An Anthology and ReaderRoutledge, 15.04.2013 - 496 Seiten This indispensable volume provides a complete course on Latin erotic elegy, allowing students to trace a coherent narrative of the genre's rise and fall, and to understand its relationship to the changes that marked the collapse of the Roman republic, and the founding of the empire. |
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... Amores average about 50 lines . Elegy's greater length offers more opportunity for rhetorical and narrative elaboration , as well as for the creation of structural complexities , impossible to achieve in the more restrictive format of ...
... Amores recount the course of his affair with Corinna . However , Ovid's engagement with erotic elegy does not end here . He also produces both the Heroides , a series of letters from amorous heroines recounting their misadventures in ...
... amores , it is impossible to tell if they mean their loves , their love poetry , or both . 10. Elegy's potential to unsettle traditional mores , the mos maiorum , the return to which was a major part of the political program of the ...
... ( Amores 3.9.66 ) . The ancients held Tibullus in high regard and valued him above all for his style and cultivation . He has fared less well among the moderns , particularly during the twentieth century . One of the commonplaces of ...
... Amores ( c.19 BCE ) . Born in Sulmo in 43 BCE , Ovid was only 12 at the time of the battle of Actium . By the time he had reached his late teens , when young people begin to develop a political 29 INTRODUCTION Ovid CONTENTS.
Inhalt
21 | |
Introduction to The Latin Love Elegy | 307 |
J P SULLIVAN | 312 |
Countercultural | 329 |
The Life of Love | 348 |
The Pastoral in City Clothes | 366 |
Mistress and Metaphor in Augustan Elegy | 386 |
Representation and the Rhetoric of Reality | 410 |
Violence in Roman elegy | 457 |
Index | 480 |