Table of Contents
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