The Cambridge Companion to Latin Love Elegy

Leading scholars present the genre of Latin love elegy, its poets, features and influence on the history of Western literature.

Part I. History and Context: 1. Greek elegy Richard Hunter; 2. Latin precursors Federica Bessone; Part II. The Latin Love Elegists: 3. Caius Cornelius Gallus: 'the inventor of Latin love elegy' Emmanuelle Raymond; 4. Tibullus in first place (with Lygdamus) Parshia Lee-Stecum; 5. 'The woman' Mathilde Skoie; 6. Propertius Alison Keith; 7. Ovid the love elegist Thea S. Thorsen; Part III. The Elegiac World: 8. Time, place and political background Stephen J. Harrison; 9. The poeta-amator, nequitia and recusatio Alison Sharrock; 10. The puella: accept no substitutions! Paul Allen Miller; 11. Seruitium amoris: the interplay of dominance, gender and poetry Laurel Fulkerson; 12. Militia amoris: fighting in love's army Megan O. Drinkwater; Part IV. The Ends of Latin Love Elegy: 13. Loves and elegy Roy Gibson; 14. Latin love elegy and other genres Lisa Piazzi; 15. Breaking the rules: elegy, matrons and mime John F. Miller; Part V. Receptions: 16. Latin love elegy in late antiquity: Maximian Roger P. H. Green; 17. The love elegy in medieval Latin literature (pseudo-Ovidiana and Ovidian imitations) Marek Thue Kretschmer; 18. Renaissance Latin love elegy Luke B. T. Houghton; 19. English elegies of the sixteenth and seventeenth century Victoria Moul; 20. Translation and imitation of classical elegy in the French eighteenth century Stéphanie Loubère; 21. Russian elegists and Latin lovers in the long eighteenth century Andrew Kahn; 22. German elegies: from Baroque beginnings and classical culminations to twentieth-century Hollywood Theodore Ziolkowski; Part VI. Metre: 23. The Latin elegiac couplet Thea S. Thorsen.