Law and Love in Ovid: Courting Justice in the Age of Augustus
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Cover Law and Love in Ovid: Courting Justice in the Age of Augustus Copyright Dedication Preface Acknowledgements Contents Chapter 1: Introduction: Eros and Nomos Part I: The Trials of Love Chapter 2: Love as a State of Exception Introduction Recusatio: Elegy’s Sovereign Exception Autobiographical recusatio Bare Life and Sovereign Power Sacrosanctus and Homo Sacer The Saturnalian Exception Conclusion Chapter 3: The Courtroom in the Bedroom Introduction Amores 3.14 Ovid the Censor The Trial Setting Catullus in Amores 3.14 Amores 1.4 Love’s Autonomy Love in Marriage Amores 2.5 The Court of Love in Amores 2.5 Catullus in Amores 2.5 Corinna as Helen and Phryne Amores 2.7 and 2.8 Propertius in Ovid, Amores 2.7–8 Ovid’s Double Act Amores 2.19 and 3.4 Law, Desire, and Transgression Law and Morality Slaves and Wives A Poet between Two Worlds Conclusion Chapter 4: The Letter of the Law Introduction Roman Law and the Laws of Roman Elegy Powerful Language: Love, Law, and Magic The Intertextual Evidence Love, Litigation, and Justice Testatio Cydippe Writes Back Law, Love, and Letters before and after Ovid Conclusion Part II: Lex Amatoria Chapter 5: Poets and Lawmakers Introduction Law and Didactic Poetry: The Hesiodic Tradition The Golden Age Law and Elegy: Theognis and Solon The Poet and the Tyrant Conclusion Chapter 6: Sexperts and Legal Experts Introduction Law and Sexuality The Jurists Ovid the Jurist Jurists, Orators, and Lovers Love’s Autonomy The Dress Code Conclusion Part III: The Law of the Father Chapter 7: Authors of Law and Life Introduction The Children of Law and Literature The Crops of Pleasure The Birth of Authority Conclusion Chapter 8: Love and Incest Introduction Marriage Legislation and the Origins of Law Orpheus in the Metamorphoses The story of Myrrha: Orpheus, Ovid, and Augustus Myrrha and Augustan Law Myrrha’s Declamation Myrrha before the Law Myrrha’s potestas Conclusion Epilogue Bibliography Index of Passages Discussed General Index
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