{"product_id":"the-latin-love-elegists-9789004688148","title":"The Latin Love Elegists","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLatin love elegy’s flourishing concurrent with Rome’s transition from Republic to Principate has remained an issue central to scholarship on the genre since the turn of the last millennium. This book addresses the Greco-Roman literary inheritance and Augustan socio-political context that paved the way for that flourishing, while examining the genre’s key elements and characters as illustrated in the poetry of Propertius, Tibullus, Ovid, and Sulpicia. Special attention is paid to the gendered dynamics that govern the relationship between “poet-lover” (amator) and beloved and to the role of the poet as artist and creator of a “written girl” (scripta puella).\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eContents   Acknowledgments   Abstract   Keywords    Introduction    1 Antecedents, Origins, Innovations    2 Playing the Gender Card: Augustan Love Elegy    3 (De)constructing the puella    4 Elegiac vulnerabilities: scripting desire in Augustan Rome    5 Receptions and New Directions   Bibliography   Index","brand":"Brill","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53210877198679,"sku":"9789004688148","price":63.84,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-latin-love-elegists-9789004688148","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}