A Companion to Roman Love Elegy

by Gold, Barbara K.

• ISBN13: 9781444330373
• ISBN10: 1444330373
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2012-05-14
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Summary

A Companion to Roman Love Elegy is the first comprehensive work dedicated solely to the study of love elegy. The genre is explored through 33 original essays thatoffer new and innovative approaches to specific elegists and the discipline as a whole. Contributors represent a range of established names and younger scholars, all of whom are respected experts in their fields Contains original, never before published essays, which are both accessible to a wide audience and offer a new approach to the love elegists and their work Includes 33 essays on the Roman elegists Catullus, Tibullus, Propertius, Sulpicia, and Ovid, as well as their Greek and Roman predecessors and later writers who were influenced by their work Recent years have seen an explosion of interest in Roman elegy from scholars who have used a variety of critical approaches to open up new avenues of understanding

Author Biography

Barbara K. Gold is Edward North Professor of Classics at Hamilton College. She is the editor of Literary and Artistic Patronage in Ancient Rome (1982), author of Literary Patronage in Greece and Rome (1987), co-editor of Sex and Gender in Medieval and Renaissance Texts: The Latin Tradition (1997), co-editor of Roman Dining: A Special Issue of American Journal of Philology (2005), and author of Perpetua: A Martyr’s Tale (2012).  She has published widely on satire, lyric and elegy, feminist theory and late antiquity.

Table of Contents

List of Figures	p. viii
Reference Works: Abbreviations	p. x
Notes on Contributors	p. xi
Preface	p. xvi
Introduction	p. 1
The Text and Roman Erotic Elegists	p. 9
Calling out the Greeks: Dynamics of the Elegiac Canon	p. 11
Catullus the Roman Love Elegist?	p. 25
Propertius	p. 39
Tibullus	p. 53
Ovid	p. 70
Corpus Tibullianum, Book 3	p. 86
Historical and Material Context	p. 101
Elegy and the Monuments	p. 103
Roman Love Elegy and the Eros of Empire	p. 119
Rome's Elegiac Cartography: The View from the Via Sacra	p. 134
Influences	p. 153
Callimachus and Roman Elegy	p. 155
Gallus: The First Roman Love Elegist	p. 172
Stylistics and Discourse	p. 187
Love's Tropes and Figures	p. 189
Elegiac Meter: Opposites Attract	p. 204
The Elegiac Book: Patterns and Problems	p. 219
Translating Roman Elegy	p. 234
Aspects of Production	p. 251
Elegy and New Comedy	p. 253
Authorial Identity in Latin Love Elegy: Literary Fictions and Erotic Failings	p. 269
The Domina in Roman Elegy	p. 285
"Patronage and the Elegists: Social Reality or Literary Construction?"	p. 303
Elegy, Art and the Viewer	p. 318
Performing Sex, Gender and Power in Roman Elegy	p. 339
Gender and Elegy	p. 357
Approaches	p. 373
Lacanian Psychoanalytic Theory and Roman Love Elegy	p. 375
Intertextuality in Roman Elegy	p. 390
Narratology in Roman Elegy	p. 410
The Gaze and the Elegiac Imaginary	p. 426
Late Antique Elegy and Reception	p. 441
Reception of Elegy in Augustan and Post-Augustan Poetry	p. 443
Love Elegies of Late Antiquity	p. 459
Renaissance Latin Elegy	p. 476
Modernist Reception	p. 491
Pedagogy	p. 509
Teaching Roman Love Elegy	p. 511
Teaching Ovid's Love Elegy	p. 526
Teaching Rape in Roman Elegy	p. 541
Teaching Rape in Roman Love Elegy	p. 549
General Index	p. 558
Index Locorum	p. 574
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