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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... Vergil , Propertius , and Ovid , his own poetry has all but disappeared . He rose to be the prefect of Egypt under Augustus , and when he became too bold in proclaiming his own accomplishments , he was forced to commit suicide . Hence ...
... culture . This is an oversimplification . He was a man of letters and a patron of the arts with a keen eye for talent . Among the writers in his circle when Propertius joined it were Horace and Vergil . These. 26 INTRODUCTION.
An Anthology and Reader Paul Allen Miller. when Propertius joined it were Horace and Vergil . These poets were clearly in sympathy with the Augustan program , although they were not uncritical of it . Thus , while parts of the Aeneid ...
... Vergil's poem of melancholy grandeur . The poem ends with a panegyric of Augustus in which he is equated with Jupiter's earthly representative , a gesture familiar from Horace , Odes 3.1 , " Iuppiter arces | temperat aetherias et mundi ...
... Vergil becomes pathetic in Ovid . 66. The Tristia and Epistulae ex Ponto were not widely read in the twentieth century . The complaints of exile , however moving , become tedious after a time . Ovid's wheedling before Augustus and later ...
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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 |