The elegiac woman at Rome
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9328792 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Maria Wyke (0000-0002-0358-772X, Newham College, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1987 |
| Volume | 33 |
| Pages | 153-178 |
| Publication date | 1987-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Proceedings of the Cambridge Philological Society (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0068-6735 • E-ISSN: 2053-5899 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0068673500004971 |
| OpenAlex | W2165960358 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 33 |
| References cited | 35 |
How do women enter the discourse of Augustan love poetry and become elegiac? Studies of the representation of women in antiquity generally suggest that women enter its literatures doubly determined. Broadly speaking, literary representations of the female are determined both at the level of culture and at the level of genre: that is to say by the range of cultural codes and institutions which order the female in a particular society and by the conventions which surround a particular practice of writing. I propose in this paper, therefore, to explore the place of the elegiac woman in the literary landscape of Augustan Rome through an examination of the interplay of her cultural and generic determinants. The phrase ‘the elegiac woman’ which appears in the title of this paper should make clear at the outset that my concern will be not with the realities of women's lives in Augustan society but with a poetic genre of the female
Art · Elegiac · Linguistics · Literature · Order (exchange · Phrase · Poetry · Political science · Politics · Representation (politics · Sociology · Classical Antiquity Studies · Historical and Literary Studies · History · Law · Medieval Literature and History · Philosophy
Loves and elegy
Komposition
Tibullus in first place
Militia amoris
The puella
Caius Cornelius Gallus
The poeta-amator, nequitia and recusatio
Translation and imitation of classical elegy in the French eighteenth century
Russian elegists and Latin lovers in the long eighteenth century
Greek elegy
Ovid the love elegist
Latin love elegy and other genres
Time, place and political background
Breaking the rules
Propertius
Latin love elegy in Late Antiquity
Latin precursors
‘The woman’
The Latin elegiac couplet
The Natural and Unnatural Silence of Women in the Elegies of Propertius
The Cambridge Companion to Latin Love Elegy
Sobre a metapoesia em Propércio e na poesia erótica romana
Female agents of Hell, Stoic luxury, and failing leaders
Leno Poeta
Propertius 4.2
Introduction
Hercules Cross-Dressed, Hercules Undressed
Reading Cynthia and Sexual Difference in the Poems of Propertius
The Poet and the Procuress
Redressing Elegy's Puella
Ghostwriting Elegy in Propertius 4.7
Introspection and Engagement in Propertius
Gender-Specific Communication in Graeco-Roman Antiquity
Women in Roman law & society
Women in Roman Law& Society
Tradition and originality in Roman poetry.
Propertius: “Love” and “War”
Elegy 4.8
The Latin Sexual Vocabulary
Politics in Augustan Poetry
Callimachus and the Augustan Aetiological Elegy
Reflections of Women in Antiquity
L'élégie hérotique romaine
Propertius 4. 11
Three Poems of Propertius
Some Aspects of Roman Marriage Ceremonies and Ideals
Written Women
Propertius, Elegies, Book IV
Notes on Propertius, Books III and IV
Notes on Propertius Books I and II
Ovid
Women in Classical Athens
Tarpeia's Tomb
Nobilis Historia? Incongruity in Propertius 4.7
Propertius and the Unity of the Book
Erotic Teaching in Roman Elegy and the Greek Sources. Part I
Hercules Exclusus
Augustan Elegy and Mime
Propertius and Horace
The Sexual Status of Vestal Virgins
Virgil's Pastoral Art. Studies in the Eclogues
Fallax Opus
Ovid's Heroides
| Unique citing works | 33 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,03 |
| Citation span | 1994 - 2023 (30) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 33 |