A Companion to Roman Love Elegy is the first comprehensive
work dedicated solely to the study of love elegy. The genre is
explored through 33 original essays thatoffer new and innovative
approaches to specific elegists and the discipline as a
whole.
* Contributors represent a range of established names and younger
scholars, all of whom are respected experts in their fields
* Contains original, never before published essays, which are
both accessible to a wide audience and offer a new approach to the
love elegists and their work
* Includes 33 essays on the Roman elegists Catullus, Tibullus,
Propertius, Sulpicia, and Ovid, as well as their Greek and Roman
predecessors and later writers who were influenced by their
work
* Recent years have seen an explosion of interest in Roman elegy
from scholars who have used a variety of critical approaches to
open up new avenues of understanding
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List of Figures viii
Reference Works: Abbreviations x
Notes on Contributors xi
Preface xvi
Introduction 1
Barbara K. Gold
PART I The Text and Roman Erotic Elegists 9
1. Calling out the Greeks: Dynamics of the Elegiac Canon
11
Joseph Farrell
2. Catullus the Roman Love Elegist? 25
David Wray
3. Propertius 39
W. R. Johnson
4. Tibullus 53
Paul Allen Miller
5. Ovid 70
Alison R. Sharrock
6. Corpus Tibullianum, Book 3 86
Mathilde Skoie
PART II Historical and Material Context 101
7. Elegy and the Monuments 103
Tara S. Welch
8. Roman Love Elegy and the Eros of Empire 119
P. Lowell Bowditch
9. Rome’s Elegiac Cartography: The View from the Via
Sacra 134
Eleanor Winsor Leach
PART III Influences 153
10. Callimachus and Roman Elegy 155
Richard Hunter
11. Gallus: The First Roman Love Elegist 172
Roy K. Gibson
PART IV Stylistics and Discourse 187
12. Love’s Tropes and Figures 189
Duncan F. Kennedy
13. Elegiac Meter: Opposites Attract 204
Llewelyn Morgan
14. The Elegiac Book: Patterns and Problems 219
S. J. Heyworth
15. Translating Roman Elegy 234
Vincent Katz
PART V Aspects of Production 251
16. Elegy and New Comedy 253
Sharon L. James
17. Authorial Identity in Latin Love Elegy: Literary Fictions
and Erotic Failings 269
Judith P. Hallett
18. The Domina in Roman Elegy 285
Alison Keith
19. ‘Patronage and the Elegists: Social Reality or
Literary Construction?’ 303
Barbara K. Gold
20. Elegy, Art and the Viewer 318
Hérica Valladares
21. Performing Sex, Gender and Power in Roman Elegy 339
Mary-Kay Gamel
22. Gender and Elegy 357
Ellen Greene
PART VI Approaches 373
23. Lacanian Psychoanalytic Theory and Roman Love Elegy
375
Micaela Janan
24. Intertextuality in Roman Elegy 390
Donncha O’Rourke
25. Narratology in Roman Elegy 410
Genevieve Liveley
26. The Gaze and the Elegiac Imaginary 426
David Fredrick
PART VII Late Antique Elegy and Reception 441
27. Reception of Elegy in Augustan and Post-Augustan Poetry
443
P. J. Davis
28. Love Elegies of Late Antiquity 459
James Uden
29. Renaissance Latin Elegy 476
Holt N. Parker
30. Modernist Reception 491
Dan Hooley
PART VIII Pedagogy 509
31. Teaching Roman Love Elegy 511
Ronnie Ancona
32. Teaching Ovid’s Love Elegy 526
Barbara Weiden Boyd
33. Teaching Rape in Roman Elegy 541
Part I: Genevieve Liveley
33. Teaching Rape in Roman Love Elegy 549
Part II: Sharon L. James
General Index 558
Index Locorum 574
关于作者
Barbara K. Gold is Edward North Professor of Classics at
Hamilton College. She is the editor of Literary and Artistic
Patronage in Ancient Rome (1982), author of Literary
Patronage in Greece and Rome (1987), co-editor of Sex and
Gender in Medieval and Renaissance Texts: The Latin Tradition
(1997), co-editor of Roman Dining: A Special Issue of American
Journal of Philology (2005), and author of Perpetua: A
Martyr’s Tale (2012). She has published widely on
satire, lyric and elegy, feminist theory and late antiquity.