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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... Augustus by the senate in 27 BCE . Second , the story of the Gracchi reveals how a number of issues , which might seem ... Augustus's moral reform legislation , which was designed to promote legitimate childbirth and prohibit adultery ...
... Augustus , preferred to forget . 50. Propertius's choice to end his first collection of poetry with a poem that links ... Augustus's minister of culture . This is an oversimplification . He was a man of letters and a patron of the arts ...
... Augustus's respect for the traditional republican virtue of libertas , “ freedom of speech . " 53. Propertius , however , strayed more than most in Maecenas's circle . Poem 2.1 is a recusatio , a common type of poem in the period , in ...
... Augustus's moral reform laws or a piece of earlier triumviral legislation taxing unmarried men . In either case , poem 2.7 shows Propertius in particular , and elegy in general , as out of keeping with the spirit of the Augustan reforms ...
... Augustus's victory at Actium . This poem is read by some as evidence of the poet's reconciliation with Augustus and by others as an exercise in satire . Poems 4.7 and 4.8 are the only poems on Cynthia in the last book . In 4.7 , Cynthia ...
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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 |