496 Pages
by
Routledge
496 Pages
by
Routledge
496 Pages
by
Routledge
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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. The book begins with a detailed and wide-ranging introduction, looking at major figures, the evolution of the form,... Read more
Introduction; Texts; Catullus; Tibullus; Sulpicia; Propertius; Ovid; Commentary; Catullus; Tibullus; Sulpicia; Propertius; Ovid; Critical Anthology; Introduction to the Latin Love Elegy; The Politics of Elegy; The Role of Women in Roman Elegy; The Life of Love; The Pastoral in City Clothes; Mistress and Metaphor in Augustan Elegy; Representation and the Rhetoric of Reality; “But Ariadne was Never There in the First Place”; Reading Broken Skin
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Paul Allen Miller
