By Sharon L. James
ISBN-10: 0520233816
ISBN-13: 9780520233812
This examine transforms our realizing of Roman love elegy, a big and intricate corpus of poetry that flourished within the past due first century b.c.e. Sharon L. James reads key poems through Propertius, Tibullus, and Ovid for the 1st time from the viewpoint of the girl to whom they're addressed--the docta puella, or realized lady, the poet's liked. by means of examining the poetry now not, as has continuously been performed, from the stance of the elite male writers--as plaint and confession--but relatively from the point of view of the women--thus as persuasion and tried manipulation--James finds ideas and substance that nobody has listened for before.
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What is striking about Roman love elegy is its rapid blossoming and extinction—it springs up like Athena, nearly full-grown from its inception, as far as we can tell, and vanishes some twenty-five to thirty years later, leaving behind a set of interacting, constantly recirculating poems that amuse, challenge, and often disturb readers. This particular literary phenomenon could not have occurred in any other period of Roman history, a time when the ancient structures of Roman public life were being officially restored but simultaneously gutted of their original meaning and power.
70 The praeceptor is so confident in the power of soft speech that he declares it an infallible approach: si non accipiet scriptum illectumque remittet, lecturam spera propositumque tene. (469–70) If she won’t accept your letter and sends it back unread, hope she’ll read it eventually, and stick to your purpose. Penelopen ipsam, persta modo, tempore vinces: capta vides sero Pergama, capta tamen. legerit et nolit rescribere, cogere noli; tu modo blanditias fac legat usque tuas; quae voluit legisse, volet rescribere lectis: per numeros veniunt ista gradusque suos.
With my mistress as my arbiter, I’ll be safe”). 97 Appropriately for a love object addressed as a superior, the elegiac woman is usually proud, demanding, even fierce; naturally, she is beautiful, and her beauty turns out to be both a generic and a professional necessity. ), though the same accusation does not apply to the lover-poet when he strays. Her temper can be harsh. When she grants him her sexual favors, she is physically soft and tender, and she expects him to be able to perform sexually (cf.
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