Latin Erotic Elegy: An Anthology and Reader

by Miller,Paul Allen

• ISBN13: 9780415243728
• ISBN10: 0415243726
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-04-19
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

This indispensable volume provides a complete course on Latin erotic elegy and traces the story of the genre's rise and fall. The book begins with a detailed and wide-ranging introduction, looking at major figures, the evolution of the form, and the Roman context, with particular focus on the changing relations between the sexes. The texts that follow range from the earliest manifestations of erotic elegy, in Catullus, through Tibullus, Sulpicia (Rome's only female elegist), Propertius and Ovid.

Table of Contents

Preface
Acknowledgements
Introduction	p. 1
Texts	p. 37
Catullus	p. 39
Tibullus	p. 44
Sulpicia	p. 55
Propertius	p. 57
Ovid	p. 80
Commentary	p. 107
Catullus	p. 109
Tibullus	p. 121
Sulpicia	p. 159
Propertius	p. 166
Ovid	p. 241
Critical Anthology	p. 305
Introduction to The Latin Love Elegy	p. 307
The Politics of Elegy	p. 312
The Role of Women in Roman Elegy: Counter-cultural feminism	p. 329
The Life of Love	p. 348
The Pastoral in City Clothes	p. 366
Mistress and Metaphor in Augustan Elegy	p. 386
Representation and the Rhetoric of Reality	p. 410
"But Ariadne Was Never There in the First place": Finding the female in Roman poetry	p. 430
Reading Broken Skin: Violence in Roman elegy	p. 457
Index	p. 480
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