Offers an introduction to Latin love elegy, with emphasis on the genre's Greek and Roman antecedents as well as its historical context and the gendered dynamics that govern the relationship between the poet-lover and his beloved
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Offers an introduction to Latin love elegy, with emphasis on the genre's Greek and Roman antecedents as well as its historical context and the gendered dynamics that govern the relationship between the poet-lover and his beloved
ContentsAcknowledgmentsAbstractKeywordsâIntroductionâ1âAntecedents, Origins, Innovationsâ2âPlaying the Gender Card: Augustan Love Elegyâ3â(De)constructing the puellaâ4âElegiac vulnerabilities: scripting desire in Augustan Romeâ5âReceptions and New DirectionsBibliographyIndex