Vergil and Elegy
Published on 20. April 2023
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Hardback
516 pages
978-1-4875-4795-0 (ISBN)
Description
Born in 70 BCE, the Roman poet Vergil came of age during a period of literary experimentalism among Latin authors. These authors introduced new Greek verse forms and metres into the existing repertoire of Latin poetic genres and measures, foremost among them being elegy, a genre that the ancients thought originated in funeral lament, but which in classical Rome became first-person poetry about the poet-lover's amatory vicissitudes. Despite the influence of notable elegists on Vergil's early poetry, his critics have rarely paid attention to his engagement with the genre across his body of work.
This collection is devoted to an exploration of Vergil's multifaceted relations with elegy. Contributors shed light on Vergil's interactions with the genre and its practitioners across classical, medieval, and early modern periods. The book investigates Vergil's hexameter poetry in relation to contemporary Latin elegy by Gallus, Tibullus, and Propertius, and the subsequent reception of Vergil's radical combination of epic with elegy by later Latin and Italian authors. Filling a striking gap in the scholarship, Vergil and Elegy illuminates the famous poet's wide-ranging engagement with the genre of elegy across his oeuvre.
This collection is devoted to an exploration of Vergil's multifaceted relations with elegy. Contributors shed light on Vergil's interactions with the genre and its practitioners across classical, medieval, and early modern periods. The book investigates Vergil's hexameter poetry in relation to contemporary Latin elegy by Gallus, Tibullus, and Propertius, and the subsequent reception of Vergil's radical combination of epic with elegy by later Latin and Italian authors. Filling a striking gap in the scholarship, Vergil and Elegy illuminates the famous poet's wide-ranging engagement with the genre of elegy across his oeuvre.
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English
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Toronto
Canada
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College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
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sewn/stitched
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With dust jacket
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Height: 231 mm
Width: 155 mm
Thickness: 43 mm
Weight
816 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-4875-4795-0 (9781487547950)
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Alison Keith is a professor of classics and director of the Jackman Humanities Institute at the University of Toronto.
Micah Y. Myers is an associate professor of classics at Kenyon College.
Micah Y. Myers is an associate professor of classics at Kenyon College.
Content
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 amoris
Jacqueline 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. Pasiphae 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 Argonautica
Jessica 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 Cruciatus
Kenneth 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 Furioso
Joseph Ortiz
Works Cited
Contributors
Index Locorum
General Index
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 amoris
Jacqueline 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. Pasiphae 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 Argonautica
Jessica 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 Cruciatus
Kenneth 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 Furioso
Joseph Ortiz
Works Cited
Contributors
Index Locorum
General Index