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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... rhetorical and narrative elaboration , as well as for the creation of structural complexities , impossible to achieve in the more restrictive format of epigram . Likewise , whereas epigrams are , with certain exceptions , occasional ...
... rhetorical tools the elegists deployed in their rejection of the traditional life of duty . Catullus and the elegists would exploit this resource , but from the unique perspective offered by a Roman cultural and political system that ...
... rhetorical elaboration . There is a stanzaic quality to the couplet that becomes increasingly marked in later elegiac practice . Thus , while Catullus follows the Greek precedent and allows enjambment from one couplet to the next , his ...
... rhetorical arguments in the manner of Ovid than complex tissues of related , interwoven , and sometimes contradictory themes . 42. In poem 1.1 , the poet starts with the contrast between the life of the farmer and the soldier ...
... rhetorical brilliance , because if Augustus is to make the argument that Ovid's art encourages immorality , then Ovid's invocation of the numerous myths of rape and seduction associated with these sites would make Augustus as guilty as ...
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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 |