The Cambridge Companion to Latin Love Elegy

CONTENTS
NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS
PREFACE
ABBREVIATIONS
Introduction: Latin love elegy
PART I History and context
	1 Greek elegy
	2 Latin precursors
PART II The Latin love elegists
	3 Caius Cornelius Gallus: ‘the inventor of Latin love elegy’
	4 Tibullus in first place
	5 ‘The woman’
	6 Propertius
	7 Ovid the love elegist
PART III The elegiac worId
	8 Time, place and political background
	9 The poeta-amator, nequitia and recusatio
	10 The puella: accept no substitutions!
	11 Seruitium amoris: the interplay of dominance, gender and poetry
	12 Militia amoris: fighting in love’s army
PART IV The ends of Latin love elegy
	13 Loves and elegy
	14 Latin love elegy and other genres
	15 Breaking the rules: elegy, matrons and mime
PART V Receptions
	16 Latin love elegy in Late Antiquity: Maximianus
	17 The love elegy in medieval Latin literature (pseudo-Ovidiana and Ovidian imitations)
	18 Renaissance Latin love elegy
	19 English elegies of the sixteenth and seventeenth century
	20 Translation and imitation of classical elegy in the French eighteenth century
	21 Russian elegists and Latin lovers in the long eighteenth century
	22 German elegies
PART VI Metre
	23 The Latin elegiac couplet
Dateline
Works cited
Index