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This Festschrift in honour of the classical scholar Stephen Heyworth brings together eleven experts on the genre of Latin elegy. All chapters focus on the close reading of elegiac texts primarily by Ovid and Propertius.
List of contents
- Introduction
- 1: Daniel Jolowicz: Possessive pronouns in Latin love elegy: Propertius and the land confiscations
- 2: Donncha O'Rourke: Preposterous Propertius
- 3: Matthew Robinson: Propertius 3.10: A Festschrift for Cynthia?
- 4: Jennifer Ingleheart: Reading sex in Amores 1.4 and 1.5: repetition, coupling, and Ovidian erotics
- 5: Rebecca Armstrong: Sowing the seeds of love: Ovid's Sementivae (Fasti 1.655-704)
- 6: Krešimir Vukovi¿: Rivers and Fluid Identities in the Fasti
- 7: Bobby Xinyue: Humiliation and revenge in Ovid's Fasti
- 8: Gail Trimble: Horatian moments in Ovid's career and the end of Fasti 6
- 9: T. E. Franklinos: Trying to make up for lost time with dear friends in Ovid, Tristia 3
- 10: Bruce Gibson: Closing time: moving towards the end in Epistulae ex Ponto 4
- 11: Helen M. Dixon: Talking heads, talking statues: Ovidian antiquarianism in Renaissance Rome
- Bibliography
- Index locorum
- Index rerum
About the author
T. E. Franklinos teaches at the University of Oxford, where he completed his graduate studies following his first degree at St Andrews. After holding a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship and Junior Research Fellowship at Trinity College, Oxford, he was appointed to a Lectorship in Oxford's Faculty of Classics and is a Fellow of Wolfson College; he has also held an Alexander-von-Humboldt-Stiftung Fellowship at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Munich. His work focuses on the Latin literatures of Antiquity and the Middle Ages and their transmission; he has primarily written on the Roman elegists, pseudepigrapha, and medieval Latin texts.
Jennifer Ingleheart is Professor of Latin at the Department of Classics and Ancient History, Durham University; she joined the Department in 2004, after graduate and undergraduate studies at Wadham College, Oxford. She has previously held posts at Wadham College, Oxford, Keble College, Oxford, University of Wales, Swansea, and Marlboro College, Vermont. Her work focuses on Latin literature and its modern reception, as well as the history of sexuality.
Summary
This Festschrift in honour of the classical scholar Stephen Heyworth brings together eleven experts on the genre of Latin elegy. All chapters focus on the close reading of elegiac texts primarily by Ovid and Propertius.
