The Latin Love Elegists / / Hunter H. Gardner.

• Superior document: Brill Research Perspectives in Humanities and Social Sciences Series
• VerfasserIn: Gardner, Hunter H,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden : : Brill,, 2023.
• Year of Publication: 2023
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Brill Research Perspectives in Humanities and Social Sciences Series
• Physical Description: 1 online resource

"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)"-- Provided by publisher.

Table of Contents

Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Abstract -- Keywords -- Introduction -- 1 Antecedents, Origins, Innovations -- 1.1 Catullus and the Elegiac Impulse -- 1.2 Gallus -- 2 Playing the Gender Card: Augustan Love Elegy -- 2.1 He Said, She Said: A Puella's Perspective -- 3 (De)constructing the Puella -- 3.1 Time's Up? Elegiac Violence and Twenty-First Century Readers -- 3.2 Bidding Farewell to Elegiac Love -- 4 Elegiac Vulnerabilities: Scripting Desire in Augustan Rome -- 4.1 Meretrix or Matrona? -- 4.2 The Poet-Lover and the Incipient Principate -- 5 Receptions and New Directions -- Index.