Law and Love in Ovid: Courting Justice in the Age of Augustus

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Law and Love in Ovid: Courting Justice in the Age of Augustus
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Dedication
Preface
Acknowledgements
Contents
Chapter 1: Introduction: Eros and Nomos
Part I: The Trials of Love
	Chapter 2: Love as a State of Exception
		Introduction
		Recusatio: Elegy’s Sovereign Exception
		Autobiographical recusatio
		Bare Life and Sovereign Power
		Sacrosanctus and Homo Sacer
		The Saturnalian Exception
		Conclusion
	Chapter 3: The Courtroom in the Bedroom
		Introduction
		Amores 3.14
			Ovid the Censor
			The Trial Setting
			Catullus in Amores 3.14
		Amores 1.4
			Love’s Autonomy
			Love in Marriage
		Amores 2.5
			The Court of Love in Amores 2.5
			Catullus in Amores 2.5
			Corinna as Helen and Phryne
		Amores 2.7 and 2.8
			Propertius in Ovid, Amores 2.7–8
			Ovid’s Double Act
		Amores 2.19 and 3.4
			Law, Desire, and Transgression
			Law and Morality
			Slaves and Wives
			A Poet between Two Worlds
		Conclusion
	Chapter 4: The Letter of the Law
		Introduction
		Roman Law and the Laws of Roman Elegy
		Powerful Language: Love, Law, and Magic
		The Intertextual Evidence
		Love, Litigation, and Justice
		Testatio
		Cydippe Writes Back
		Law, Love, and Letters before and after Ovid
		Conclusion
Part II: Lex Amatoria
	Chapter 5: Poets and Lawmakers
		Introduction
		Law and Didactic Poetry: The Hesiodic Tradition
		The Golden Age
		Law and Elegy: Theognis and Solon
		The Poet and the Tyrant
		Conclusion
	Chapter 6: Sexperts and Legal Experts
		Introduction
		Law and Sexuality
		The Jurists
		Ovid the Jurist
		Jurists, Orators, and Lovers
		Love’s Autonomy
		The Dress Code
		Conclusion
Part III: The Law of the Father
	Chapter 7: Authors of Law and Life
		Introduction
		The Children of Law and Literature
		The Crops of Pleasure
		The Birth of Authority
		Conclusion
	Chapter 8: Love and Incest
		Introduction
		Marriage Legislation and the Origins of Law
		Orpheus in the Metamorphoses
		The story of Myrrha: Orpheus, Ovid, and Augustus
			Myrrha and Augustan Law
			Myrrha’s Declamation
			Myrrha before the Law
			Myrrha’s potestas
		Conclusion
	Epilogue
Bibliography
Index of Passages Discussed
General Index