A Companion to Roman Love Elegy

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.

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 Herica 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