Law and Love in Ovid challenges the view that legal language in poetry is a sign of frivolity and argues that it signals a radical return to the roots of law's creation. Cover -- Law and Love in Ovid: Courting Justice in the Age of Augustus --...
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Law and Love in Ovid challenges the view that legal language in poetry is a sign of frivolity and argues that it signals a radical return to the roots of law's creation. 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.
