The Latin Love Elegists /

The Latin Love Elegists / / Hunter H. Gardner.

"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...

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Superior document:Brill Research Perspectives in Humanities and Social Sciences Series
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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
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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.

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