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Beginning with a short characterization of Tibullus 1.5, this essay asks the question: what does the erotic subject matter of Roman elegy tell us about the nature of language? It assesses a handful of approaches to this question from the standpoint of narratology and psychoanalysis (“scientific” approaches in the broadest sense of the word) all focusing on the Roman elegist Tibullus. Science is metaphysics (i.e. “forgetfulness of being”—Heidegger). The paper advises caution in the use of science, the prelude to thinking.

- by Stephen Hoffman
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- Psychoanalysis, Comparative Literature, Philosophy, Philosophy Of Language

Il presente lavoro si propone di inserire i versi di Tibullo 1, 7 nella corrente culturale non allineata che, negli anni 27-26 a.C., ovvero nel periodo di composizione della stessa elegia, iniziò ad affiancare quella ufficiale e a vedere tra i principali protagonisti Messalla, destinatario del componimento poetico, e il suo circolo, l’unico a mantenere «una certa indipendenza politica».
Concorrono verso una simile lettura non solo il lungo excursus egizio, insolito per lunghezza (ben ventisei versi, sul totale dei sessantaquattro che compongono l’elegia) e per contenuto (inevitabile il richiamo alla guerra aziaca appena conclusa e alla "factio" antoniana), ma anche altri tratti dissonanti rispetto alla propaganda di Ottaviano e qui analizzati.

- by Nicoletta Francesca Berrino
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- Tibullus
- by Alexander Kirichenko
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- Augustan Poetry, Intertextuality, Propertius, Tibullus
- by Leah Kronenberg
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- Tibullus, Apollo, Sibylline Oracles, Latin love elegy
- by Magda El-Nowieemy
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- History, Ancient History, Geography, Historical Geography
- by Hannes Lötzsch
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- Latin Literature, Tibullus, Ovid (Classics), Golden-Age poetry
- by Markiyan Dombrovskyi
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- Tibullus, Classical philology, Roman Elegy, Latin love elegy
- by Raffaele Perrelli
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- Amores, Tibullus, P. Ouidius Naso

Tesina scritta per il corso universitario "Esegesi dei testi letterari latini" tenuto dal prof. G. Mazzoli nell'a.a. 2010-2011. Analisi e commento della dibattuta epistola 4 del primo libro oraziano, dedicata ad Albio e riguardante il... more

- by Giorgio Vedovati
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- Tibullus, Horace, Sermones, Exegesis

Today it is relatively unquestioned that Sulpicia, the elegiac woman of [Tib.] 3.8-18, was a historical woman of the same name who lived and wrote Latin elegies in Augustan Rome, and that the poems attributed to her are autobiographical records of love, thereby making Sulpicia a Roman version of Sappho. However, if the extant evidence is given a closer look, a different picture emerges. Specifically, if one recognizes the generic conventions at play in the poems, there is no longer reason to date them to the Augustan period, nor to read the figure of Sulpicia as different than any other constructed elegiac woman, nor to read the poems as disconnected from the rest of the genre of Latin love elegy. Rather, the poems quite likely date to after the heyday of the genre, and thus they appear to be pseudepigrapha or chronological fakes, written to recall and respond to the work of the canonical elegists and the Greek roots of the genre. And, if this is their correct context, it follows that the figure of Sulpicia was specifically chosen by the unknown author to provide a particular interpretation and/or comment on the genre, not unlike the fictional figure of Diotima in Plato’s Symposium. The Sulpicia that then emerges is not a Roman Sappho in the sense that we would like her to be, but rather a purely literary figure such as she is portrayed in the first known post-classical construction of her by the humanist Giovanni Pontano. Though such a reading may result in the loss of what was previously thought to be the only extant work of a female Roman poet, this justifiably renewed line of research into male authorship for the poems brings with it much potential.

- by Stefanie Kletke
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- Latin Literature, Augustan Poetry, Tibullus, Sulpicia
- by Mario Regali
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- Plato, Propertius, Tibullus, Latin love elegy
- by Magda El-Nowieemy
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- Ancient History, Classics, Latin Literature, Augustan Poetry

Εισαγωγή, Κείμενο, Λεξιλόγιο, Μετάφραση, Σχόλια
[Introduction, Text, Vocabulary, Translation, Commentary]

- by Andreas N . Michalopoulos and +1
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- Latin Literature, Augustan Poetry, Ovid, Propertius

De 08 a 10 de julho de 2015 organizamos o V Colóquio Internacional “Visões da Antiguidade Clássica”, dedicado à poesia augustana (Augustan Poetry: New Trends and Revaluations), em São Paulo, a fim de discutir novas abordagens e reavaliar as antigas, reunindo nomes que são referência no estudo de Horácio, Ovídio, Propércio e Virgílio, das mais diversas universidades. Do evento resultou este livro por cujas contribuições esperamos que os estudos sobre poesia augustana possam se renovar e aumentar (augere). A imagem augusta do princeps, perpetuada por mais de dois mil anos, com sua grauitas, eternamente jovem, continuará ainda, queiramos ou não, a se fazer presente, ano a ano, sob o nome do mês que o celebra: agosto. Reunidos por ele, um deus na terra, os poetas aqui discutidos, que o eternizam, também se perpetuam (non omnis moriar), crescendo e renovando-se (crescam recens), pelas novas abordagens, pelo cuidadoso trabalho filológico e pelas discussões proporcionadas pelos autores (autores) deste livro que vem assim organizado em três grandes partes.

- by Paulo Martins and +7
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- Classics, Latin Literature, Augustan Poetry, Vergil

“Callimachean Allusions in Tibullus 4.” Aevum Antiquum 21, pp. 57–80. This paper discusses Tibullus I 4 with particular attention to three Callimachean intertexts, namely Iambus 9, Aetia fr. 41 and Iambus 3. Iambus 3 in particular proves to be a crucial intertext for the last portion of Priapus' lecture on love. The paper argues that Tibullus does not merely echo the Alexandrian text but reacts to it and dramatically alters its implications. The Roman poet places this allusion at a crucial point, that is, at the end of Priapus' lecture on homoerotic love. The appropriation and subversion of Callimachus' Iambus 3 has a central place in Tibullus' strategy of establishing the literary prestige of his own elegiac endeavor.

- by Massimo Giuseppetti
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- Hellenistic Literature, Intertextuality, Roman poetry, Callimachus

Il est traditionnel de présenter les élégiaques comme les tenants d’un mode de vie alternatif. Chantres de l’individualité, ils représenteraient une forme de subversion. Pourtant, les élégiaques décrivaient moins un mode de vie qu’un état... more

- by Philippe Le Doze
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- Latin Literature, Feminism, Ovid, Propertius

My PhD Thesis scrutinized with the symbolic aspects of space in Latin Augustan love elegy and particularly with two main topics: urban space, related with 'urbanitas' as a cultural and literary model, and travel, often related to warfare... more

- by Paolo Monella
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- Latin Literature, Ovid, Propertius, Tibullus
- by Magda El-Nowieemy
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- Classics, Latin Literature, Augustan Poetry, Phoenicians
- by Magda El-Nowieemy
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- Classics, Latin Literature, Hellenistic Literature, Arabic

This paper questions the assumption that the female persona in the Sulpicia elegies ([Tib.] 3.8–18) places the poems in the margins of their genre and warrants a focus on the biography of their author. When we consider the historical context and literary conventions involved in the rest of the genre, this trend may signify a modern desire for a Roman Sappho and, subsequently, a modern construction of such projected into the past. As such, this paper suggests that the standard readings of Sulpicia are themselves peripheral, and that the research priority should be on the poetic context of these elegies.

- by Stefanie Kletke
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- Classics, Latin Literature, Augustan Poetry, Reception Studies

Статья посвящена обсуждению литературноrо контекста «Сельской элегии» Е. А. Баратынского. В Приложении приводится параллели к тексту элегии из произведений русских, французских и латинских авторов. // This article attempts to estabish the... more

- by Igor Pilshchikov
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- Intertextuality, Tibullus, Russian Poetry, Roman Elegy

This article is devoted to the Codex Tomacellianus, a privately owned manuscript of the poems of Propertius, Catullus and Tibullus (along with the rest of the Corpus Tibullianum). Those of Propertius and Catullus were copied by Leonte... more

- by Dániel Kiss
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- Propertius, Tibullus, Catullus, Manuscript

Baseado na premissa de que o procedimento alusivo é um recurso central na poesia augustana, investiga-se no presente estudo um caso identificado por Hollis (1977) e Sharrock (2002) de alusão na Arte de Amar. O peculiar manual erótico ovidiano, localizado cronologicamente ao final da tradição elegíaca romana, é construído em constante tensão e diálogo com a tradição que o precede. Com isto em mente, busca-se explorar alguns possíveis efeitos que uma tal alusão poderia produzir na leitura da Ars por um leitor familiarizado com as elegias de Propércio e Tibulo. Antes da abordagem do poema, faz-se um breve panorama teórico sobre intertextualidade em literatura – sobretudo no que concerne à Antiguidade clássica.

- by Guilherme Duque
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- Propertius, Tibullus, Ovid (Classics), Intertextuality and Allusion
- by Nicola Lanzarone and +2
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- Latin Literature, Tibullus, Virgil, Accademia Romana Di Pomponio Leto

Η θέση που επιχειρείται να θεμελιωθεί στην εργασία αυτή είναι πως η ελπίδα καθίσταται, κατά την περιγραφόμενη στο συγκεκριμένο είδος ερωτική διαδικασία, απαραίτητος όρος για την παραμονή του ελεγειακού εραστή στο ερωτικό servitium και επομένως (στο λογοτεχνικό πεδίο) βασικός συντελεστής για τη δημιουργία του ελεγειακού συνθέματος. Η έννοια της ελπίδας εξετάζεται ως προς τη συμβολή της στην εκδίπλωση των δευτερευόντων ελεγειακών μοτίβων που απαρτίζουν τον κορμό της συνήθους ελεγειακής θεματικής. Η έννοια μελετάται ως προς τον ρόλο της στη διατήρηση του εραστή–πρωταγωνιστή ως δέσμιου του ερωτικού του πάθους για την ελεγειακή ηρωίδα, ώστε να παραμένει (παρά τις συνεχείς αποτυχίες) στον αγώνα εκπλήρωσης ενός έρωτα που είναι προδιαγεγραμμένο πως θα μείνει χωρίς ανταπόκριση.

- by Vaios Vaiopoulos
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- Latin Literature, Propertius, Tibullus, Roman Elegy

This paper is the translation, and reworking, of a chapter of my book, La mort de Virgile d'après Horace et Ovide (2d ed., Paris, 1999), pp. 157-171, where I argue that Horace in these two epistles denounces the murder of Virgil and... more

- by Jean-Yves Maleuvre
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- Tibullus, Horace, Murder, Virgil

Our record of Roman love-poetry, from Catullus on into Propertius and Tibullus and finally Ovid, shows a preference for ‘countercultural’ idioms. These authors switch between voices and vocabularies, as does Horace, the other great first-person poet of the Augustan period. But the love-poet persona builds heavily on subverting the idioms deemed appropriate for freeborn elite Roman males (military language, triumphal imagery, prayer formulas, legalese), and embracing alternative modes of expression (emotional outbursts, passive or submissive behaviour, metaphors of slavery and torture). The techniques of Roman rhetorical training might seem to belong in the first category. However, I propose that we include a different, more scurrilous brand of ‘rhetoric’ in the second category: that of the "praeco" (herald or auctioneer).

- by Dunstan Lowe
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- Latin Literature, Augustan Poetry, Propertius, Tibullus

"Budapest, Országos Széchényi Library, Codex latinus medii aevi 137 is a parchment codex from the 15th century that contains the poems of Catullus and Tibullus. It has a twin in Cologny, Bibliotheca Bodmeriana, MS. Bodmer 141, which... more

- by Dániel Kiss
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- Codicology, Propertius, Tibullus, Catullus

A study on some passages of Tibullus I 1 shows that some Tibullan topics are not mere "poetical" passages but that they share important ideas and themes with the philosophical literature of the 1st century BC, particularly with texts of... more

- by Guido Milanese
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- Latin Literature, Hellenistic Philosophy, Tibullus, Epicureanism
- by Andrea Ylipoti
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- Tibullus, Latin love elegy

This article argues that the figure of Macer, who is characterized as a poet
with elegiac and epic interests in Tibullus (2.6) and Ovid (Am. 2.18, Pont.
2.10, 4.16), is a pseudonym (“the lean lover”) for Valgius Rufus. The usual
candidates for Macer’s identity, Aemilius Macer and Pompeius Macer,
have nothing to recommend them but their name and status as poets. In
contrast, the information we learn about Valgius Rufus from Horace Carm.
2.9, the Panegyricus Messallae, and his surviving elegiac and hexametric
fragments fits extremely well with the portrait of Macer that emerges from
Tibullus and Ovid.

- by Leah Kronenberg
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- Amores, Tibullus, Horace, Odes (Classics)
- by András Cser
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- Classics, Phonology, History of Latin Language, Valerius Flaccus
- by Magda El-Nowieemy
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- History, Ancient History, Cultural History, Economic History

The sanctuary of Apollo on the Palatine is one of the most important Augustan buildings. Situated very close to the first emperor's private residence, it is central for our understanding of Augustan culture. As one of its main functions, from at least 12 BCE the temple of Apollo accommodated the libri Sibyllini, one of Rome's most precious religious possessions. Another part of the sanctuary was a prestigious library that featured a Latin and a Greek section and played an important role in the lives of the contemporary poets. By means of an interdisciplinary approach, I demonstrate that the combined influence of these two functions of the Palatine sanctuary can still be recognized today in the fact that the Augustan poets started to call themselves vates. It will be shown that a combination of historical, archeological, and philological research can lead to a better understanding of this interesting phenomenon of the Augustan epoch which until now has almost only been approached from a philological point of view.

- by Jens Fischer
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- Augustan Poetry, Roman Religion, Ovid, Propertius
- by Ian Goh
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- Latin Literature, Tibullus, Roman Elegy, Elegy
- by Joanna Pypłacz
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- Tibullus, Roman Elegy
- by Blanche Conger McCune
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- Latin Literature, Poetry, Latin Epic, Lucan
- by massimo gioseffi
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- Latin Literature, Augustan Poetry, Tibullus, Augustan Principate

This paper was presented as part of a reading class on Tibullus 3, organized by Laurel Fulkerson and Stephen Heyworth at Oxford in Trinity Term 2015. I enjoyed writing it and have thought about revising it for publication, but I am not... more

- by Ian Fielding
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- Tibullus, Ennius, Apocrypha/Pseudepigrapha, Ovid (Classics)