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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... girls and meretrices . In epic , which elegy always defines as its generic opposite , amorous intrigues such as Aeneas's with Dido are portrayed as endangering the very foundations of the state by distracting the hero from his divine ...
... girl is handy , but not to grind another man's grain . The elegists , however , claim it is they , not their dominae , who are faithful , thereby deliberately reversing normal sexual roles even as they undermine the very virtue in the ...
... girl's spoils , to lay waste to the Assyrians . ( 66.7-14 ) The precious imagery , the coy psychology of the pampered tress , the witty compliments to the royal couple , and the complex sentence structure are typically Callimachean . We ...
... effusions of an artless young girl has recently been shown to be more the product of romanticism and condescension than a careful reading of the poems . Propertius 48. Sextus Propertius , born 49-47 BCE , was 24 INTRODUCTION.
... girl are termed " hard " is a clear sexual double entendre . 55. Book 4 of Propertius , published c.16 BCE , represents a fundamental change in the way the poet thinks of the elegiac genre . In part , this book represents a return to ...
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 |