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Essays on Propertian and Ovidian elegy : a limping lady for Stephen Heyworth /

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.

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Franklinos, T. E. (Tristan Emil), 1989- (Editor), Ingleheart, Jennifer (Editor), Heyworth, S. J. (honouree.)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford : Oxford University Press, [2024]
Subjects:
Ovid, > 43 B.C.-17 A.D. or 18 A.D. > Criticism and interpretation.
Propertius, Sextus > Criticism and interpretation.
Elegiac poetry, Latin > History and criticism.
Poésie élégiaque latine > Histoire et critique.
Ancient.
HISTORY.
LITERARY CRITICISM.
Poetry.
Literature: history & criticism.
Literature.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Intro
  • Halftitle page
  • Title page
  • Copyright page
  • Preface
  • Epigraph
  • Contents
  • List of Abbreviations
  • List of Contributors
  • Introduction
  • 1. Possessive pronouns in Latin love elegy: Propertius and the land confiscations
  • 1.1 The possessive pronoun in interpersonal scenarios: some literary-historical background
  • 1.2 The predicative possessive as a generic marker of elegiac love
  • 1.3 Propertius, predicative possessives, and the land confiscations
  • 1.4 Conclusion
  • 2. Preposterous Propertius
  • 2.1 Cases of hysteron proteron across two clauses linked by a conjunction
  • 2.2 Cases of hysteron proteron across two clauses in asyndeton
  • 2.3 Cases of hysteron proteron involving a proleptic perfect participle
  • 2.4 Cases of hysteron proteron involving non-participial prolepsis
  • 2.5 Other forms of inverted order
  • 2.6 Cases of hysteron proteron in narrative order
  • I. Cases of hysteron proteron across two clauses linked by a conjunction
  • II. Cases of hysteron proteron across two clauses in asyndeton
  • III. Cases of hysteron proteron involving a proleptic perfect participle
  • IV. Cases of hysteron proteron involving non-participial prolepsis
  • V. Other forms of inverted order
  • VI. Cases of hysteron proteron in narrative order
  • VII. All cases of hysteron proteron (vel sim.) in Propertius
  • 3. Propertius 3.10: A festschrift for Cynthia?
  • 3.1 Tibullus on the birthday
  • 3.2 Propertius 3.9: who's the Muse?
  • 3.3 Propertius 3.10: many happy returns?
  • 3.4 Conclusion
  • 4. Reading sex in Amores 1.4 and 1.5: Repetition, coupling, and Ovidian erotics
  • 4.1 Do you remember the first time?
  • 4.2 (First and second) acts of love
  • 4.3 Parallels and contrasts in Amores 1.4 and 1.5
  • 4.4 Conclusion
  • 5. Sowing the seeds of love: Ovid's Sementivae (Fasti 1.655-704)
  • 5.1 Time, nature, and culture
  • 5.2 Cultivating texts
  • 5.3 Divine combinations
  • 6. Rivers and fluid identities in the Fasti
  • 6.1 Evander and Carmentis
  • 6.2 Anna Perenna
  • 6.3 The Argei
  • 6.4 Tiber-Albula and Euphrates
  • 6.5 Vertumnus
  • 6.6 Claudia Quinta
  • 7. Humiliation and revenge in Ovid's Fasti
  • 7.1 Humiliation and revenge in 'ancient history'
  • 7.2 Augustus ultor
  • 7.3 Pudor, princeps, and poet
  • 7.4 Conclusion
  • 8. Horatian moments in Ovid's career and the end of Fasti 6
  • 9. Trying to make up for lost time with dear friends in Ovid, Tristia 3
  • 10. Closing time: Moving towards the end in Epistulae ex Ponto 4
  • 10.1 Sextus Pompeius and Pont. 4.15
  • 10.2 Imperial praise
  • 10.3 Poetry and harm
  • 10.4 The end of endlessness
  • 11. Talking heads, talking statues: Ovidian antiquarianism in Renaissance Rome
  • 11.1 Introduction
  • 11.2 Poem-title and scene-setting: what's in a name?
  • 11.3 Contemplating the building (vv. 1-6)