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Amicitia in Roman love elegy

Datos Bibliográficos

ID9306732
AutoresRoy K Gibson (0000-0001-8737-7481, University of Manchester, autor de correspondencia)
Año1996
Volumen41
Páginas62-82
Fecha de publicación1996-01-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaProceedings of the Cambridge Philological Society (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0068-6735 • E-ISSN: 2053-5899
EditorialCambridge University Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1017/s0068673500001930
OpenAlexW2167230798
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas24
Referencias citadas12

It is often said that amicitia , so prominent in the love poetry of Catullus, plays a negligible role in the elegies of Propertius, Tibullus and Ovid: the elegists avoid the vocabulary of amicitia and prefer to describe the relationships with their beloveds in terms of militia and seruitium amoris . In this paper, however, I shall show that this is mistaken. While the elegists do not use the vocabulary of amicitia systematically, they clearly do continue to appeal to its protocols and moral code – Ovid above all. It will be seen that Catullus and the elegists share the use of the ideology of amicitia to pressurize their beloveds to accept or make a return on the benefacta which they as lovers bestow

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