Latin Elegy and the Space of Empire

This book explores the ways in which Latin poets of the late Republic and the Augustan Age participate in a new cultural preoccupation with the dramatically expanding geographical space of empire.

List of contents

• Introduction: Terminal Anxiety


• 1: Sine fine: Imperium^ and Subject in Catullus


• 2: What's Love Got to Do With It?: Mapping Cynthia In Propertius' Paired Elegies 1.8a-b and 1.11-12


• 3: On the Road Again: Following the vias in Tibullus


• 4: Painted Worlds and Porous Walls: Propertius 4.3 with 4.2 and 4.4


• 5: Sine finibus: Imports and Exile in Ovid Amores 1.14, Ars Amatoria 3, Remedia Amoris, Medicamina Faciei Femineae, Tristia, Epistulae Ex Ponto


• Conclusion: The Amator, the Puella and the Space of Empire

About the author

Sara H. Lindheim is Associate Professor of Classics at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She is the author of Mail and Female: Epistolary Narrative and Desire in Ovid's Heroides (University of Wisconsin Press, 2003), and co-editor, with Helen Morales, of New Essays on Homer: Language, Violence, Agency (Ramus 44.1 and 2, 2015).

Summary

This book explores the ways in which Latin poets of the late Republic and the Augustan Age participate in a new cultural preoccupation with the dramatically expanding geographical space of empire.

Product details

• Authors: Sara H. Lindheim, Sara H. (Associate Professor of Classics Lindheim, Lindheim Sara H.
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 11.03.2021
• EAN: 9780198871446
• ISBN: 978-0-19-887144-6
• No. of pages: 256
• Series: Oxford Studies in Classical Literature and Gender Theory
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Antiquity; Latin, HISTORY / Ancient / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Poetry, LITERARY CRITICISM / Ancient & Classical, Literary studies: classical, early & medieval, Literary studies: poetry & poets, Ancient History, Classical history / classical civilisation, Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval, Literary studies: poetry and poets, POETS