scholarly journals M. TH. KRETSCHMER, Latin Love Elegy and the Dawn of the Ovidian Age. A Study of the Versus Eporedienses and the Latin Classics, Turnhout: Brepols Publishers, 175 pp., 2020, ISBN 978-2-503-58703-5

Trabajo ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 25 ◽  
Author(s):  
ARMANDO BISANTI
Keyword(s):  
Love Elegy

Redressing Elegy's Puella: Propertius IV and the Rhetoric of Fashion

1994 ◽  
Vol 84 ◽  
pp. 41-63 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jeri Blair Debrohun
Keyword(s):  
Female Subject ◽  
First Person ◽  
Recent Criticism ◽  
Love Elegy ◽  
Writing Practice ◽  
Fourth Book

Much recent criticism of Roman love elegy, especially Propertian love elegy, has been concerned with the exposure of elegy's ego and puella as poetic constructions whose ‘partially realistic’ characteristics and actions serve as metaphorical representations of the poet's writing practice and poetic ideals. As Duncan Kennedy has pointed out, however, this discourse of representation has already threatened to create its own limitations of applicability, as it privileges the ‘partial realism’ of love elegy's first-person narratives, in which an authorial male narrator (ego) writes of his female subject (puella), at the expense of the more openly unrealistic representational strategies of works such as Ovid's Heroides and Fasti or, the more immediate concern of this article, the fourth book of Propertius' elegies.

Love Elegy, Propertius, and Soliloquy

2021 ◽  
pp. 199-245
Author(s):  
Aaron J. Kachuck
Keyword(s):  
Renaissance Literature ◽  
Time And Space ◽  
Truth Telling ◽  
Love Elegy ◽  
The Individual ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Relationship

This chapter argues that soliloquy as problem and opportunity was central to the aims of Latin love elegy, especially to Propertius’ Elegies. Drawing comparisons with the Lydia, Dirae, Tibullus’ elegies, Virgil’s tenth Eclogue, and Propertius’ elegiac predecessors, it studies Propertius’ corpus to demonstrate the relationship between the poet’s insanity and his solitude. It shows how seasonal indications inscribe this solitude in time and space, and how Propertius worked to rewrite love as a secret fiction. Propertius’ elegies, it argues, use solitude to shape the harmonization of elegiac subjectivity and the poets’ other political personae, culminating in the last of his elegies (4.11), which encapsulates the relegation of truth telling, love, and poetry to the solitary sphere, thus embodying new coordinations of public, the private, and the individual. In conclusion, it points to the impact of Propertius’ solitude on Renaissance literature, including the Hypnerotomachia Polyphili and Ben Jonson’s Poetaster.

Paulus Silentiarius, Ovid, and Propertius

1980 ◽  
Vol 30 (1) ◽  
pp. 239-243 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. C. Yardley
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Late Nineteenth Century ◽  
Important Work ◽  
Love Elegy ◽  
Strong Case ◽  
Late Nineteenth

In the late nineteenth century and the early decades of the twentieth thematic resemblances to the Roman elegists in Paulus Silentiarius (and other late epigrammatists) were explained as the result of the poets' reliance on a common Hellenistic source – usually this was identified as the so-called ‘subjective Alexandrian love elegy’ – and this represented a departure from the views of earlier scholars such as Hertzberg and Postgate, who had maintained that Paulus knew and imitated the elegists. In recent years the pendulum has swung back (partly, perhaps, because the whole notion of a ‘subjective Alexandrian love elegy’ has been abandoned), and the prevailing opinion seems to be that the Roman elegists were known to Paulus. This is the view of, for instance, Giovanni Viansino in his edition of Paulus, of Elmar Schulz-Vanheyden in his important work on Propertius' relationship to Greek epigram, and of Hermann Beckby in his edition of the Greek Anthology. Recently, too, Gordon Williams has put forward a very strong case for earlier epigrammatists like Antipater and Crinagoras imitating the Augustan poets.

Prudentius’ Agnes and the Elegiac puella

Mnemosyne ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 1-21
Author(s):  
Thomas Tsartsidis
Keyword(s):  
Love Elegy ◽  
Literary Traditions

Abstract In Peristephanon 14, Prudentius creates an inventive verse rendering of the martyrdom of Agnes. Interestingly, in this poem, the portrayal of Agnes shares many features with the elegiac puellae of Roman love elegy. Prudentius’ classicising poetry is characterised by the mixture of genres and literary traditions, one of them being Roman love elegy. The affinities, however, between Prudentius and the latter tradition deserve closer attention. In this paper, by identifying vocabulary, themes and motifs of Roman elegy in Peristephanon 14, I will illustrate ways in which Prudentius’ Agnes can be read as a Christianised elegiac puella.

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