Vergil and elegy / edited by Alison Keith and Micah Y. Myers.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Keith, Alison, editor.

Myers, Micah Young, 1979- editor.

Series:

Phoenix. Supplementary volume ; 60.

Phoenix supplementary volume ; LX

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Virgil--Criticism and interpretation.

Virgil.

Elegiac poetry, Latin--History and criticism.

Elegiac poetry, Latin.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

vii, 500 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Toronto ; Buffalo ; London : University of Toronto Press, [2023]

Summary:

"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 meters 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."-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction / Alison Keith

Part I. Elegy in Vergil

1. Elegy and metapoetic polemic in Vergil's first eclogue / John Henkel

2. Generic polemic in the Bucolics : Vergil, Gallus and remdia 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. Elegizing the Roman dirge / Bill Gladhill

Part II. 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 III. 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 IV. Vergil's elegiac mode in reception.

17. Et in Arcadia Ego : Vergil the elegist / Nandini B. Pandey

18. The absence of the 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 M. Ortiz.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

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Other Format:

Online version: Vergil and elegy.

ISBN:

1487547951

9781487547950

OCLC:

1347695758