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The Latin Love Elegists

Book information

Publisher
BRILL
Year
2023
ISBN
9004688145, 9789004688148, 9789004688155, 2023946139
Google Books ID
voEX0AEACAAJ
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
7 MB (7366916 bytes)
Series
Brill Research Perspectives in Humanities and Social Sciences / Brill Research Perspectives in Classical Poetry
Pages
104\102
Time added
2024-02-21 08:44:06

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).

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