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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... Love was tolerated so long as it was temporary and did not endanger another man's fortune or legitimate sexual prerogatives ... lover using violence toward the beloved . Likewise , Ovid's poems on Corinna's abortion reveal that certain ...
... lover ' or exclusus amator . In these poems , the door is barred to the lover for one of three reasons : the uir has posted a ianitor , or door slave ; the domina is with another lover ; or , a lena , or madam , has locked the lover out ...
... lover . At the same time , she deliberately undermines the traditional power relations that defined love and marriage in male - dominated Rome , not by merely inverting those relations , as her male counterparts did , but by reconceiving ...
... lover at the door , this is the song of the door itself recounting its mistress's infidelity and the impotence of her husband . Poem 68 is by most accounts the first full - fledged love elegy in Latin literature . It continues the ...
... love and the virtues of rural simplicity ( 1.10 ) . Delia is generally thought to be a meretrix , because of the emphasis the poet places on the rich rivals who compete for her favors . The opposition of the diues amator ( " rich lover ...
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 |