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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... husband or her established lover . In either case , Ovid is stepping on what is acknowledged to be another man's sexual territory and upsetting the balance of power . The relationship is de facto , if not de iure , adulterous . Likewise ...
... husband marks a clear departure from the expected rules of feminine conduct . As she herself writes , " pecasse iuvat " [ " it is a pleasure to have done wrong " ] ( 3.13.9 ) . She does not portray herself as the traditional matrona ...
... husband , was in charge of the upbringing of her two sons . Cornelia was not only an extraordinary mother but also an accomplished woman of letters whose published correspondence survived for more than two centuries after her death ...
... by the royal astronomer to the court at Alexandria , Conon . Berenice sheared the lock as an offering for the safe return of her husband and brother , Ptolemy III , from a campaign in Syria on which he 12 INTRODUCTION.
... husband , Ptolemy III . Poem 67 is a version of the paraclausithyron , but , rather than the song of the lover at the door , this is the song of the door itself recounting its mistress's infidelity and the impotence of her husband ...
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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 |