The Latin Love Elegists (Brill Research Perspectives in Humanities and Social Sciences / Brill Research Perspectives in Classical Poetry)

Gardner, Hunter

Brill（2023/11発売）

• 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 96 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9789004688148
• DDC分類 874.01093543

Full Description

Latin love elegy's flourishing concurrent with Rome's transition from Republic to Principate has remained an issue central to scholarship on the genre since the turn of the last millennium. This book addresses the Greco-Roman literary inheritance and Augustan socio-political context that paved the way for that flourishing, while examining the genre's key elements and characters as illustrated in the poetry of Propertius, Tibullus, Ovid, and Sulpicia. Special attention is paid to the gendered dynamics that govern the relationship between "poet-lover" (amator) and beloved and to the role of the poet as artist and creator of a "written girl" (scripta puella).

Contents

Contents

Acknowledgments

Abstract

Keywords

 Introduction

 1 Antecedents, Origins, Innovations

 2 Playing the Gender Card: Augustan Love Elegy

 3 (De)constructing the puella

 4 Elegiac vulnerabilities: scripting desire in Augustan Rome

 5 Receptions and New Directions

Bibliography

Index