The Cambridge Companion to Latin Love Elegy Cambridge Companions to Literature

"Latin love elegy is one of the most important poetic genres in the Augustan era, also known as the golden age of Roman literature. This volume brings together leading scholars from Australia, Europe and North America to present and explore the Greek and Roman backdrop for Latin love elegy, the individual Latin love elegists (both the canonical and the non-canonical), their poems and influence on writers in later times. The book is designed as an accessible introduction for the general reader interested in Latin love elegy and the history of love and lament in Western literature, as well as a collection of critically stimulating essays for students and scholars of Latin poetry and of the classical tradition."-- Provided by publisher CONTENTS NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS PREFACE ABBREVIATIONS Introduction: Latin love elegy PART I History and context 1 Greek elegy 2 Latin precursors PART II The Latin love elegists 3 Caius Cornelius Gallus: ‘the inventor of Latin love elegy’ 4 Tibullus in first place 5 ‘The woman’ 6 Propertius 7 Ovid the love elegist PART III The elegiac worId 8 Time, place and political background 9 The poeta-amator, nequitia and recusatio 10 The puella: accept no substitutions! 11 Seruitium amoris: the interplay of dominance, gender and poetry 12 Militia amoris: fighting in love’s army PART IV The ends of Latin love elegy 13 Loves and elegy 14 Latin love elegy and other genres 15 Breaking the rules: elegy, matrons and mime PART V Receptions 16 Latin love elegy in Late Antiquity: Maximianus 17 The love elegy in medieval Latin literature (pseudo-Ovidiana and Ovidian imitations) 18 Renaissance Latin love elegy 19 English elegies of the sixteenth and seventeenth century 20 Translation and imitation of classical elegy in the French eighteenth century 21 Russian elegists and Latin lovers in the long eighteenth century 22 German elegies PART VI Metre 23 The Latin elegiac couplet Dateline Works cited Index