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This collection explores Vergil’s engagement with the genre of elegy across various themes, linguistic traditions, and historical periods.
List of contents
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
Introduction
Alison Keith
Part One: Elegy in Vergil
1. Elegy and Metapoetic Polemic in Vergil’s First Eclogue
John Henkel
2. Generic Polemic in the Bucolics: Vergil, Gallus, and
remedia amorisJacqueline Fabre-Serris
3. Elegiac Revaluations of the Golden Age: Saturn’s Exile in Vergil and Tibullus
Hunter H. Gardner
4. Roman Returns: Nostos in Vergil and Propertius
Micah Y. Myers
5. Lust in Lions and Lovers: Hunting for Civic Virtue in Vergil, Propertius, and Early Greek Elegy
Eva Anagnostou-Laoutides
6. From Caieta to Erato: Vergil’s Elegiac Program in
Aeneid 7.1-45
Sarah McCallum
7. Elegising the Roman Dirge
Bill Gladhill
Part Two: Vergil in Ovidian Elegy
8. Pasiphaë in Vergil’s
Bucolics and Ovid’s
Ars Amatoria: A Bovine Lover’s Discourse
Mariapia Pietropaolo
9.
Supprime, Musa, querellas: Ovid’s Elegiac Aristaeus
Barbara Weiden Boyd
10. Lamenting Tibullus as Literary Critique: Elegy and Vergilian Epic in Ovid,
Amores 3.9
Judith P. Hallett
11. The Hero and the Procuress: Anna and Her Elegiac Interface
Sophia Papaioannou
12. The Presence of Vergil in Ovid’s
Epistulae ex Ponto 1.8
Garth Tissol
Part Three: Vergil and Elegy in Imperial Latin Literature
13. The Errant Flock: Calpurnius Siculus’ Bucolic Response to Elegy
Yelena Baraz
14. From
Militia Amoris to
Amor Militiae: Language of Rape in Lucan’s Account of the Deforestation of the Sacred Grove of Massilia
Giulio Celotto
15. Through the Looking Glass: Epic
Exempla and Elegiac Mirrors in the
ArgonauticaJessica Blum-Sorensen
16. Epic and Elegy in the Poems of Statius
Alessandra De Cristofaro
Part Four: Vergil’s Elegiac Mode in Reception
17.
Et in Arcadia Ego: Vergil the Elegist
Nandini B. Pandey
18. The Absence of Elegiac Poets in Servius’ Commentary on Vergil
Giancarlo Abbamonte
19. Ovidian Ghosts in Ausonius’ Mourning Fields: Reading Vergil through Ovid in the
Cupido CruciatusKenneth Draper
20. Vergil’s Renaissance Rebirth: Genre and Geography in Pontano,
Eridanus 1.14
Luke Roman
21. Vergil and Antiquarian Poetry in Distichs in the Kingdom of Naples: Four Case Studies (Fifteenth-Sixteenth Centuries)
Lorenzo Miletti
22. Elegiac Loss and the Poetics of Translation in Vergil’s
Aeneid and Ariosto’s
Orlando FuriosoJoseph Ortiz
Works Cited
Contributors
Index Locorum
General Index
About the author
Edited by Alison Keith and Micah Y. Myers
Summary
This collection explores Vergil’s engagement with the genre of elegy across various themes, linguistic traditions, and historical periods.
