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9780198845140

Law and Love in Ovid Courting Justice in the Age of Augustus

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    9780198845140

  • ISBN10:

    0198845146

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2021-03-28
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press

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Summary

In classical scholarship, the presence of legal language in love poetry is commonly interpreted as absurd and incongruous. Ovid's legalisms have been described as frivolous, humorous, and ornamental. Law and Love in Ovid challenges this wide-spread, but ill-informed view. Legal discourse in Latin love poetry is not incidental, but fundamental. Inspired by recent work in the interdisciplinary field of law and literature, Ioannis Ziogas argues that the Roman elegiac poets point to love as the site of law's emergence.

The Latin elegiac poets may say 'make love, not law', but in order to make love, they have to make law. Drawing on Agamben, Foucault, and Butler, Law and Love in Ovid explores the juridico-discursive nature of Ovid's love poetry, constructions of sovereignty, imperialism, authority, biopolitics, and the ways in which poetic diction has the force of law. The book is methodologically ambitious, combining legal theory with historically informed closed readings of numerous primary sources.

Ziogas aims to restore Ovid to his rightful position in the history of legal humanism. The Roman poet draws on a long tradition that goes back to Hesiod and Solon, in which poetic justice is pitted against corrupt rulers. Ovid's amatory jurisprudence is examined vis-à-vis Paul's letter to the Romans. The juridical nature of Ovid's poetry lies at the heart of his reception in the Middle Ages, from Boccaccio's Decameron to Forcadel's Cupido iurisperitus. The current trend to simultaneously study and marginalize legal discourse in Ovid is a modern construction that Law and Love in Ovid aims to demolish.

Author Biography


Ioannis Ziogas, Associate Professor, Durham University

Table of Contents


1. Introduction: Eros and Nomos
PART I THE TRIALS OF LOVE
2. Love as a State of Exception
3. The Courtroom in the Bedroom
4. The Letter of the Law
PART II LEX AMATORIA
5. Poets and Lawmakers
6. Sexperts and Legal Experts
PART III THE LAW OF THE FATHER
7. Authors of Law and Life
8. Love and Incest
Epilogue
Bibliography

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