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Latin love elegy’s flourishing concurrent with Rome’s transition from Republic to Principate has remained an issue central to scholarship on the genre since the turn of the last millennium. This book addresses the Greco-Roman literary inheritance and Augustan socio-political context that paved the way for that flourishing, while examining the genre’s key elements and characters as illustrated in the poetry of Propertius, Tibullus, Ovid, and Sulpicia. Special attention is paid to the gendered dynamics that govern the relationship between “poet-lover” (amator) and beloved and to the role of the poet as artist and creator of a “written girl” (scripta puella).
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Latin love elegy’s flourishing concurrent with Rome’s transition from Republic to Principate has remained an issue central to scholarship on the genre since the turn of the last millennium. This book addresses the Greco-Roman literary inheritance and Augustan socio-political context that paved the way for that flourishing, while examining the genre’s key elements and characters as illustrated in the poetry of Propertius, Tibullus, Ovid, and Sulpicia. Special attention is paid to the gendered dynamics that govern the relationship between “poet-lover” (amator) and beloved and to the role of the poet as artist and creator of a “written girl” (scripta puella).
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Latin love elegy’s development and evanescence concurrent with the transition from Roman Republic to Principate has remained an issue central to scholarship on the genre since the turn of the last millennium. This project addresses the Greco-Roman literary inheritance and Augustan socio-political context that paved the way for that development, while also examining the genre’s key elements and dramatis personae (e.g., amator, puella, lena) as illustrated in the poetry of Propertius, Tibullus, Ovid, and Sulpicia. Special attention is paid to both the gendered dynamics that govern the relationship between amator and puella and to the role of the poet as an artist/creator of a “written girl” (scripta puella), a role that has persisted especially in twentieth and twenty-first century cinema.