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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... poet Theognis combines political commentary with poems of a frankly pederastic intent ( although since the institution of pederasty was as much educational as sexual in archaic Greece one should refrain from making too sharp a ...
... poet . At the same time , the conflation of the amorous with the soldierly in the evocation of the king and queen's ... poet who appears in his poems as an opinionated narrator and polemical poetic theorist . Thus , the Aitia opens with ...
... poet concludes not with the god's praises but with a swipe at his critics : And Envy whispered in Apollo's ear : " I am charmed by the poet who swells like the sea . " But Apollo put foot to Envy and said : " The River Euphrates has a ...
... poet bids farewell to epic and hence to the conflict between elegiac distichs and dactylic hexameters . At the same time , the nature of the elegiac couplet as a synthesis of epic meter and the pentameter is enacted by the word order's ...
... poet himself is responsible for the arrangement , but many scholars refuse to pronounce one way or the other . What does not seem in doubt is that Catullus expected his audience to read his poems in terms of one another , whether they ...
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 |