Book description
A Companion to Roman Love Elegy
is the first comprehensive work dedicated solely to the study of love
elegy. The genre is explored through 33 original essays thatoffer new
and innovative approaches to specific elegists and the discipline as a whole.
- Contributors represent a range of established names and younger
scholars, all of whom are respected experts in their fields
- Contains original, never before published essays, which are both
accessible to a wide audience and offer a new approach to the love
elegists and their work
- Includes 33 essays on the Roman elegists Catullus, Tibullus,
Propertius, Sulpicia, and Ovid, as well as their Greek and Roman
predecessors and later writers who were influenced by their work
- Recent years have seen an explosion of interest in Roman elegy
from scholars who have used a variety of critical approaches to open
up new avenues of understanding
Barbara K. Gold
is Edward North Professor of Classics at Hamilton College. She is the
editor of Literary and Artistic Patronage in Ancient Rome
(1982), author of Literary Patronage in Greece and Rome
(1987), co-editor of Sex and Gender in Medieval and Renaissance
Texts: The Latin Tradition
(1997), co-editor of Roman Dining: A Special Issue of American
Journal of Philology
(2005), and author of Perpetua: A Martyr's Tale
(2012). She has published widely on satire, lyric and elegy, feminist
theory and late antiquity.
