Book contents
- A History of Latin Literature from its Beginnings to the Age of Augustus
- A History of Latin Literature from its Beginnings to the Age of Augustus
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Maps
- Acknowledgements
- Chronology
- Abbreviations
- Sidebars
- Maps
- Introduction
- Chapter 1 Romanised Muses: The Birth of Latin Literature
- Chapter 2 All the World’s a Stage: Roman Republican Drama and Theatrical Traditions
- Chapter 3 A Good Man Skilled in Speaking: Oratory and Rhetoric in Rome
- Chapter 4 Song of Myself: The Personal Voice in Republican Literature
- Chapter 5 To Educate and to Entertain: Didactic and the Arrangement of Knowledge
- Chapter 6 What’s Past Is Prologue: History and Biography
- Chapter 7 Moments of Glad Grace: Augustan Love Poetry
- Chapter 8 Gods, Monsters, and Heroes: Augustan Epic
- Chapter 9 Further Voices: Augustan Personal Poetry
- Coda
- Glossary of Names and Terms
- Index Locorum
- Index Nominum
- General Index
- References
Chapter 7 - Moments of Glad Grace: Augustan Love Poetry
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 14 November 2024
- A History of Latin Literature from its Beginnings to the Age of Augustus
- A History of Latin Literature from its Beginnings to the Age of Augustus
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Maps
- Acknowledgements
- Chronology
- Abbreviations
- Sidebars
- Maps
- Introduction
- Chapter 1 Romanised Muses: The Birth of Latin Literature
- Chapter 2 All the World’s a Stage: Roman Republican Drama and Theatrical Traditions
- Chapter 3 A Good Man Skilled in Speaking: Oratory and Rhetoric in Rome
- Chapter 4 Song of Myself: The Personal Voice in Republican Literature
- Chapter 5 To Educate and to Entertain: Didactic and the Arrangement of Knowledge
- Chapter 6 What’s Past Is Prologue: History and Biography
- Chapter 7 Moments of Glad Grace: Augustan Love Poetry
- Chapter 8 Gods, Monsters, and Heroes: Augustan Epic
- Chapter 9 Further Voices: Augustan Personal Poetry
- Coda
- Glossary of Names and Terms
- Index Locorum
- Index Nominum
- General Index
- References
Summary
The seventh chapter focuses on Latin love elegy, tracing its history from several Greek roots and in Roman comedy, and concentrating on the genre as a whole. It also looks at other poetic treatments of love, Catullan, Lucretian, and Horatian, in order to show what was so distinctive about elegy. At the end, it observes that the genre lasted only a short while, and explores some of the reasons why. Treatments of Propertius, Tibullus, and Ovid, with brief exploration of Gallus
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- Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2024