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The elegiac book: patterns and problems
- Abstract:
- A significant part of the Hellenistic heritage of the Latin poets of the first century BCE was a concern for the arrangement of their poems in books. There are clear traces of this in Catullus, when poems 1 and 22 show an interest in publication, for example, or the paired kiss poems 5 and 7 are pointedly separated. In Horace’s Satires and Vergil’s Eclogues we have two fully realized books, transmitted with the poems in the artful order in which they were published by their authors. Propertius, Tibullus and Ovid followed the fashion in their own creative ways, and there are many sophisticated analyses of the books they produced. However, there are problems that have to be faced too: often, as we shall see, the number of poems is in doubt, and there are unavoidable questions of authenticity and disruption.
- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- Publisher:
- Wiley
- Host title:
- A Companion to Roman Love Elegy
- Pages:
- 219-233
- Chapter number:
- 14
- Publication date:
- 2012-03-19
- Edition:
- 1st
- DOI:
- EISBN:
- 9781118241165
- ISBN:
- 9781444330373
- Language:
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English
- Keywords:
- Subtype:
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Chapter
- Pubs id:
-
438656
- Local pid:
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pubs:438656
- Deposit date:
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2023-01-20
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- Copyright holder:
- Blackwell Publishing Ltd
- Copyright date:
- 2012
- Rights statement:
- Copyright © 2012 Blackwell Publishing Ltd.
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