Companion to Roman Love Elegy (eBook)

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

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

"Summing Up: Highly recommended. Lower-division
undergraduates through faculty." (Choice, 1
October 2012)