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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... traditional Roman life . The defining characteristic of the focus on an exclusive or dominant love affair as the genre's thematic center of gravity already casts it outside the mainstream of Roman cultural life . Love , in genres such ...
... traditional arranged marriage and pursue a career in law , the military , or politics . Love was tolerated so long as it was temporary and did not endanger another man's fortune or legitimate sexual prerogatives . In Horace's lyric ...
... traditional mores , the mos maiorum , the return to which was a major part of the political program of the emperor Augustus , was not limited to its depiction of men subjected to women . The situations depicted by the genre also ...
... traditional power relations that defined love and marriage in male - dominated Rome , not by merely inverting those ... traditional republican norms . Such women represent less a new " reality " than traditional Roman thought's inability ...
... traditional image was that of the farmer - soldier who , like Cincinnatus , was called from his plough to defend the fatherland . The decline in the number of landowners thus represented a crisis . Rome , through its military success ...
Inhalt
21 | |
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 |