The Erotics of Domination

Male Desire and the Mistress in Latin Love Poetry

Datos Bibliográficos

ID4889891
AutoresBeert Verstraete, Beert C Verstraete, Ellen Greene (0000-0001-7661-0620)
Año2000
Volumen54
Número1/2
Páginas177
Fecha de publicación2000-01-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaPhoenix (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0031-8299 • E-ISSN: 1929-4883
EditorialJSTOR (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.2307/1089110
OpenAlexW2059978428
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas29

A groundbreaking examination of power relations in Roman elegyIn recent decades, scholars in the field of classics have paid increasing attention to gender and sexual politics in Latin elegiac poetry. In The Erotics of Domination, Ellen Greene re-examines long-held scholarly attitudes concerning the representation of male sexual desire and female subjection in the Latin love poetry of Catullus, Propertius, and Ovid. Analyzing first-person poetic personae that critics have often romanticized, Greene finds that whereas the Catullan lover appears to struggle against his own -feminization, - the Roman elegiac poets--particularly Propertius and Ovid--proclaim a radically unconventional philosophy in their seemingly deliberate inversion of conventional sex roles. Through the servitude of the male lover to his mistress, the woman achieves, at least nominally, complete domination and control over him

Art · Elegiac · Feminization (sociology · Latin Americans · Literature · Poetry · Political science · Politics · Power (physics · Sociology · Classical Antiquity Studies · Gender Studies · Law · Medieval Literature and History · Philosophy · Renaissance Literature and Culture