A Guide to Latin Elegy and Lyric
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Provides the necessary context to read elegiac and lyric poetry, designed for novice and experienced Classics and Latin students alike A Guide to Latin Elegy and Lyric explores the language of Latin poetry while helping readers understand the socio-cultural context of the remarkable period of Roman literary history in which the poetry was composed. With an innovative approach to this important area of classical scholarship, the authors treat elegy alongside lyric as they cover topics such as the Hellenistic influences on Augustan poetry, the key figures that shaped the elegiac tradition of Rome, the motifs of militia amoris («the warfare of love») and servitium amoris (“the slavery of love”) in Latin love elegy, and more. Organized into ten chapters, the book begins with an introduction to the literary, political, and social contexts of the Augustan Age. The next six chapters each focus on an individual lyric and elegiac poet—Catullus, Horace, Tibullus, Propertius, Ovid, and Sulpicia—followed by a survey of several lesser-known poets and post-Augustan elegy and lyric. The text concludes with a discussion of major tropes and themes in Latin elegy and lyric, and an overview and analysis of key critical approaches in current scholarship. This volume: Includes full translations alongside the Latin throughout the text to illustrate discussions Analyzes recurring themes and tropes found in Latin poetry such as sexuality and gender, politics and patronage, myth and religion, wealth and poverty, empire, madness, magic, and witchcraft Reviews modern critical approaches to elegiac and lyric poetry including autobiographical realism, psychoanalysis, narratology, reception, and decolonization Includes helpful introductory sections: «How to Read a Latin Elegiac or Lyric Poem» and «How to Teach a Latin Elegiac and Lyric Poem» Provides information about each poet, an in-depth discussion of some of their poetry, and cultural and historical background Features a dedicated chapter on Sulpicia, offering readers an ancient female viewpoint on sex and gender, politics, and patronage Part of the acclaimed Blackwell Guides to Classical Literature series, A Guide to Latin Elegy and Lyric is the perfect text for both introductory and advanced courses in Latin elegy and lyric, accessible for students reading the poetry in translation, as well as for those experienced in Latin with an interest in learning a different approach to the subject.
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Barbara K. Gold. A Guide to Latin Elegy and Lyric
BLACKWELL GUIDES TO CLASSICAL LITERATURE
A Guide to Latin Elegy and Lyric
Table of Contents
Guide
Pages
Preface
Introduction: How to Read and Teach a Latin Elegiac or Lyric Poem. Part I: How to Read a Latin Elegiac or Lyric Poem
Part II. How to Teach Latin Elegiac and Lyric Poetry
Guide to Further Reading
1 The Literary, Political and Social Contexts of Latin Elegy and Lyric
Literary Contexts for Elegy: Genre and Canon
Literary Contexts for Lyric: Genre and Canon
Literary Contexts for Elegy and Lyric: Performance
Cultural, Political, and Historical Contexts for Elegy and Lyric: Time and Place
Cultural, Political, and Historical Contexts for Elegy and Lyric: rei publicae
Cultural, Political, and Historical Contexts for Elegy and Lyric: Puellae
Guide to Further Reading
2 Catullus
Catullus’ Friends and his Social Milieu
Poems of Love and Desire: Lesbia, Juventius
Gender-bending
Catullus in the Political and Social Arenas
Catullus and Family
Catullus’ Poetics
Guide to Further Reading
3 Horace
Horace’s Life and Works
Horace’s Odes: Their Characteristics, Themes, and Form
A Closer Look at Some Horatian Odes
Horace’s Relationship to Other Poets
Guide to Further Reading
4 Tibullus
Tibullus’ Girls and Boys
Tibullus’ Figures and Tropes
Tibullus’ Poetics
Tibullus’ Nostalgia
Tibullus’ Contradictions and Reversals
Tibullus’ Legacy
Guide to Further Reading
5 Propertius
The Puella
Propertius’ Poetics
Guide to Further Reading
6 Ovid
Amores
Heroides
Ars Amatoria
Fasti
Tristia and Epistulae ex Ponto
Guide to Further Reading
7 Sulpicia
Sulpicia in Love (3.13)
The Birthday Poems (3.14 and 3.15)
Sulpicia’s Identity (3.16)
Love as a Sickness (3.17)
Hidden Desire (3.18)
Sulpicia’s Story (3.13–18)
Guide to Further Reading
8 Other Elegiac and Lyric Poets
Lygdamus
The “Amicus” Poems (or Sulpicia’s Garland )
Later Latin Elegy and Lyric
Guide to Further Reading
9 Tropes and Themes in Elegy and Lyric
Militia Amoris
Servitium Amoris
Sexuality and Gender, Masculinity, Romanitas, Durus/Mollis
Politics and Patronage
Love as Disease, Madness, Fire
Madness/Magic/Witchcraft/Lena
Other Tropes and Themes
Guide to Further Reading
10 Critical Approaches to Elegiac and Lyric Poetry
Autobiographical Realism
Psychoanalysis
Gender
Allusion and Intertextuality
Narratology
Reception
Decolonization
Guide to Further Reading
Bibliography
Index
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Alongside these recognizable spatial markers for their poetry, the Roman elegists also use specific temporal markers. Identifiable historical events and dates are sometimes mentioned (e.g., the Augustan marriage laws, the Secular Games), and a few elegies represent what is known as “occasional poetry,” celebrating a particular event such as a promotion, or a birthday (Tibullus 2.2, Propertius 3.10, Sulpicia 3.14 and 3.15). The combined effect of these features is to offer the impression that elegy represents reality, that the elegiac world is a mirror to the “real world” of Augustan Rome (see Kennedy 1993: 92–93). And, although we should see this reality effect for what it is (or rather, for what it is not), this phenomenon does invite us to look outside the poetry, to consider the wider historical and social world in which the ostensibly private and personal world of elegy is situated. Indeed, there are a number of ways in which lyric and elegy respond to the socio-cultural contexts in which they are produced, and the treatment of two themes are of particular importance to our understanding of these genres: rei publicae (politics) and puellae (girls).
Let’s take the theme of politics first – although this aspect of the Roman world will inevitably shape the context in which the Latin lyric and elegiac poets engage with their puellae too. The period of time for which both lyric and elegy flourish in Rome is relatively short. Catullus is writing in the late Republican era of the 60s and 50s bce, largely under the First Triumvirate (a tense political alliance between Caesar, Crassus, and Pompey). Gallus is writing in the 40s bce, which see the assassination of Caesar and give rise to the Second Triumvirate, a power-share between Octavian (the future Augustus Caesar), Antony, and Lepidus. Horace, Tibullus, and Propertius are all active in the 30s and 20s under Octavian/Augustus’ early principate – that is, during the immediate aftermath of the bloody period of civil war and into the long period of relative peace and restoration led by Augustus. Indeed, it is tempting to see the emphasis on peace and recreation in lyric and elegy, alongside the explicit interest of these poets in making love not war, as a reaction of some kind against the horrors of the civil war period (see Harrison 2013: 133). Ovid joins the party a little later, and begins writing love elegy in the 20s, with the Augustan imperial regime now well established – although Ovid continues writing experimental elegy into the early decades of the new millennium and the reign of Augustus’ adopted son and successor, Tiberius. Latin lyric and elegy prosper for an interval of about seventy years then, but this interval corresponds with one of the most turbulent and transformative periods in ancient history as Rome makes the difficult transition from Republic to Monarchy and Empire.
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