Life, Love and Death in Latin Poetry

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Inspired by Theodore Papanghelis’ Propertius: A Hellenistic Poet on Love and Death (1987), this collective volume brings together seventeen contributions, written by an international team of experts, exploring the different ways in which Latin authors and some of their modern readers created narratives of life, love and death. Taken together the papers offer stimulating readings of Latin texts over many centuries, examined in a variety of genres and from various perspectives: poetics and authorial self-fashioning; intertextuality; fiction and ‘reality’; gender and queer studies; narratological readings; temporality and aesthetics; genre and meta-genre; structures of the narrative and transgression of boundaries on the ideological and the formalistic level; reception; meta-dramatic and feminist accounts-the female voice. Overall, the articles offer rich insights into the handling and development of these narratives from Classical Greece through Rome up to modern English poetry.  Read more... Frontmatter......Page 1 Prologue......Page 7 Contents......Page 15 Introduction: Life, Love and Death in Latin Poetry......Page 17 Propertius and the Unstructured Self......Page 27 Love and Death in Propertius 1.10, 1.13 and 2.15: Poetic and Polemical Games with Lucretius, Gallus and Virgil......Page 51 From Grave to Rave: Reading ‘Reality’ in Propertius 4.7 and 4.8......Page 65 Place and Meaning in Tibullus, Lygdamus, Sulpicia......Page 83 Sulpicia and the Speech of Men......Page 99 Ovid’s Literary Entrance: Propertian and Horatian Traces?......Page 125 Till Death do us Part … or Join: Love beyond Death in Ovid’s Metamorphoses......Page 137 Death and Life in Lucan......Page 149 The Music of Time: Sallust’s Sempronia (Cat. 25) and Horace’s Lyce (Odes 4.13)......Page 161 Against Aesthetic Distance: Ovid, Proust, and the Hedonic Impulse......Page 177 Epicurean Philosophical Perspectives in (and on) [Vergil] Catalepton 5......Page 199 Aphrodisia and the Poenulus of Plautus: The Case of Agorastocles......Page 215 Stoic Moral Perfectionism and the Queer Art of Failure: Toward a Theory of Senecan Tragedy......Page 229 Resurrection Woman: Love, Death and (After)Life in Petronius’s Widow of Ephesus......Page 245 Love and Death in Renaissance Latin Bucolic: The Chronis and its Origins (Biblioteca Nacional de México Ms. 1631)......Page 257 The Pope as Arsonist and Christian Salvation: Peter Causton’s Londini Conflagratio: Carmen......Page 281 Many Un/happy Returns from Eurydice......Page 301 Publications by Theodore D. Papanghelis......Page 319 Contributors......Page 323 General Index......Page 327 Index Locorum......Page 331