Life, Love and Death in Latin Poetry (Trends in Classics - Supplementary Volumes) (Trends in Classics - Supplementary Volumes, 61)

Inspired by Theodore Papanghelis’ Propertius: A Hellenistic Poet on Love and Death (1987), this collective volume brings together seventeen contributions, written by an international team of experts, exploring the different ways in which Latin authors and some of their modern readers created narratives of life, love and death. Taken together the papers offer stimulating readings of Latin texts over many centuries, examined in a variety of genres and from various perspectives: poetics and authorial self-fashioning; intertextuality; fiction and ‘reality’; gender and queer studies; narratological readings; temporality and aesthetics; genre and meta-genre; structures of the narrative and transgression of boundaries on the ideological and the formalistic level; reception; meta-dramatic and feminist accounts-the female voice. Overall, the articles offer rich insights into the handling and development of these narratives from Classical Greece through Rome up to modern English poetry. Read more... Prologue 7 Contents 15 Introduction: Life, Love and Death in Latin Poetry 17 Part I: Roman Elegy 29 Propertius and the Unstructured Self 29 Love and Death in Propertius 1.10, 1.13 and 2.15: Poetic and Polemical Games with Lucretius, Gallus and Virgil 53 From Grave to Rave: Reading ‘Reality’ in Propertius 4.7 and 4.8 67 Place and Meaning in Tibullus, Lygdamus, Sulpicia 85 Sulpicia and the Speech of Men 101 Ovid’s Literary Entrance: Propertian and Horatian Traces? 127 Part II: Augustan and Neronian Epic 141 Till Death do us Part ... or Join: Love beyond Death in Ovid’s Metamorphoses 141 Death and Life in Lucan 153 Part III: Historiography-Lyric Poetry, Erotic Epistolography and Epigram 167 The Music of Time: Sallust’s Sempronia (Cat. 25) and Horace’s Lyce (Odes 4.13) 167 Against Aesthetic Distance: Ovid, Proust, and the Hedonic Impulse 183 Epicurean Philosophical Perspectives in (and on) [Vergil] Catalepton 5 205 Part IV: Roman Drama and Novel 223 Aphrodisia and the Poenulus of Plautus: The Case of Agorastocles 223 Stoic Moral Perfectionism and the Queer Art of Failure: Toward a Theory of Senecan Tragedy 237 Resurrection Woman: Love, Death and (After)Life in Petronius’s Widow of Ephesus 253 Part V: Reception 267 Love and Death in Renaissance Latin Bucolic: The Chronis and its Origins (Biblioteca Nacional de México Ms. 1631) 267 The Pope as Arsonist and Christian Salvation: Peter Causton’s Londini Conflagratio: Carmen 291 Many Un/happy Returns from Eurydice 311 Publications by Theodore D. Papanghelis 329 Contributors 333 General Index 337 Index Locorum 341