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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"Tibullus"”.
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Cerberus Amator: Underworld Imagery in the Elegies of Tibullus and Propertius
… figure of Cerberus in the Elegies of Tibullus and Propertius. My objective is to bring to light the imaginative and provocative way that both of these poets employ the imagery and history of Cerberus and by so doing to illustrate the way in which both poets present Cerberus as a …
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<i>Non Ego Laudari Curo</i>: Honor, Shame, and Aristocratic Competition in Tibullus’ Elegy
… end of the Republic to offer new perspectives on Tibullus’ work and Roman elegy. By situating Tibullus’ corpus within his contemporaries’ aristocratic discourse on honor, my research argues that the elegiac narrator is not alien from the heroic self-assertion and pursuit of vengeance, typical of …
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Varying Virtue : Mythological Paragons of Wifely Virtues in Roman Elegy
… five characters in the works of Propertius and Tibullus, and in the elegiac works of Ovid, with special reference to issues of narratology, intertextuality, and literary genre. The shaping of such mythological references is significant for our understanding of the elegiac genre as a whole. …
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Luxury as a theme in Latin love elegy
… Following this, the elegies of Propertius, Tibullus, and Ovid are analysed sequentially and in detail with respect to how these poems treat luxury. It is found that luxury in Latin Love Elegy retains the ambiguity associated with it outside erotic literature, and functions as a rhetorical …
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The Ideal of Lucretia in Augustan Latin Poetry
… in the contemporary Augustan poets Vergil, Tibullus, Propertius and Ovid. Other extant versions of the Lucretia legend do not mention woolworking; Livy appears to have added Lucretia’s devotion to wool, a tradition in keeping with Augustan propaganda. Woolworking has come to be thought of as …
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Women Without Faces: Exemplary Control in Ovid's Amores 2
A critical analysis of the second book of Roman poet Ovid’s work of erotic elegies, Amores. Through a close reading of several crucial poems in book 2 of this work (2.17, 2.4-5, 2.2-3, and 2.7-8) and the application of modern literary and gender theories, such as the idea of gender performativity …