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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... ancient world . The detailed introduction looks at major figures , the evolution of the form , and the Roman context , with a particular focus on the changing relations between the sexes . The texts that follow range from the earliest ...
... ancient Romans . Elegy , then , is not only the common property of all the cultures that trace their origins to the ancient Mediterranean ; it is also a discrete , time - bound phenomenon . Indeed , one of its great paradoxes is that ...
... ancient poetry , used by archaic Greek poets for everything from political advice to marching songs . In Rome , before Catullus , the elegiac couplet was used for epitaphs and short witty epigrams . Both forms were based on Greek ...
... ancient Mediterranean . Indeed , the attempt to make heterosexual , romantic love the foundation of the family has been a uniquely modern and western experiment . Not only do elegiac love affairs focus on love outside of marriage ; they ...
... ancient world regardless of the metaphors employed . Moreover , the male lovers in an elegiac relationship always retain the option of pursuing a conventional career in law , politics , the military , agriculture , or large - scale ...
Inhalt
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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 |