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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... domina or era of the poet . Whereas Catullus uses both terms , the former would become canonical in the later tradition . Both , however , refer to the woman of the house or domus , the matrona who ruled its domestic slaves . She was ...
... domina is with another lover ; or , a lena , or madam , has locked the lover out for lack of funds . In all three instances , the relationship between poet and mistress is an irregular one that violates either the marital or proprietary ...
... domina nor threatens the property rights of others . Yet , if we grant the generally accepted identification of her as the niece and ward of Messalla Corvinus , then her poetry too becomes transgressive . As the daughter of one of ...
... domina believable as a literary construct and threatening as an object of desire . 20. The problems that the Gracchi had tried to address did not disappear with their deaths . The brothers were more symptoms of structural problems in ...
... domina . The elegiac tradition 24. The roots of elegy , however , like those of virtually all the poetic genres , were not to be found in Rome alone , but also in Greece . Greek poetry set the standard for cultural achievement . This is ...
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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 |