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Ablative Absolute
Anaphoric Repetition
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Chiastic Arrangement
classical philology
Clodia Metelli
connolly
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Dactylic Hexameter
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Elegiac Genre
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Erotic Elegy
Exclusus Amator
Free Woman
georg
Girl Friends
Girlfriends
hexameter
Latin literary criticism
Latin Love Elegy
Lex Iulia
luck
Male Elegists
Militat Omnis Amans
Mythological Exempla
Optative Subjunctive
poetic intertextuality
poets
Praeceptor Amoris
Previous Couplet
Roman Elegy
Roman gender studies
Roman love poetry analysis
Servitium Amoris
TA RY
Vice Versa
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Young Men
Product details
- ISBN 9780415243728
- Weight: 754g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 14 Mar 2002
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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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, 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.
An accessible commentary explores the historical background, issues of language and style, and the relation of each piece to its author's larger body of work. The volume closes with an anthology of critical essays representative of the main trends in scholarship; these both illuminate the genre's most salient features and help the student understand its modern reception.
