Hunter H. Gardner is currently an Assistant Professor of Classics and affiliate of Women's and Gender Studies at the University of South Carolina. Her other publications include articles on Catullus, Ovid's Remedia Amoris, and the Greek comic poet Menander.

Gardner's reading of elegy is intelligent and persuasive. Rather than obfuscating or explaining away contradictions that emerge so clearly from the genre of erotic elegy, she invites us to focus our interpretive attention squarely on the inconsistencies.

• PREFACE ; 1. Introduction ; PART ONE: ARRESTED DEVELOPMENT ; 2. Coming-of-Age in Augustan Rome ; 3. Taming the Velox Puella ; 4. Two Senes: Delia and Messalla ; 5. Ovid: Elegy at the Crossroads ; PART TWO: UNVEILING AURORA: FROM PUELLA RELICTA TO PUELLA ANUS ; 6. The Waiting Game ; 7. Nature, Culture and the Puella Anus ; 8. Departure Strategies: The Elegist in Men's Time ; EPILOGUE ; BIBLIOGRAPHY ; INDEX

Hunter H. Gardner is currently an Assistant Professor of Classics and affiliate of Women's and Gender Studies at the University of South Carolina. Her other publications include articles on Catullus, Ovid's Remedia Amoris, and the Greek comic poet Menander.

Gardner's reading of elegy is intelligent and persuasive. Rather than obfuscating or explaining away contradictions that emerge so clearly from the genre of erotic elegy, she invites us to focus our interpretive attention squarely on the inconsistencies.

• PREFACE ; 1. Introduction ; PART ONE: ARRESTED DEVELOPMENT ; 2. Coming-of-Age in Augustan Rome ; 3. Taming the Velox Puella ; 4. Two Senes: Delia and Messalla ; 5. Ovid: Elegy at the Crossroads ; PART TWO: UNVEILING AURORA: FROM PUELLA RELICTA TO PUELLA ANUS ; 6. The Waiting Game ; 7. Nature, Culture and the Puella Anus ; 8. Departure Strategies: The Elegist in Men's Time ; EPILOGUE ; BIBLIOGRAPHY ; INDEX

Hunter H. Gardner is currently an Assistant Professor of Classics and affiliate of Women's and Gender Studies at the University of South Carolina. Her other publications include articles on Catullus, Ovid's Remedia Amoris, and the Greek comic poet Menander.

Gardner's reading of elegy is intelligent and persuasive. Rather than obfuscating or explaining away contradictions that emerge so clearly from the genre of erotic elegy, she invites us to focus our interpretive attention squarely on the inconsistencies.

• PREFACE ; 1. Introduction ; PART ONE: ARRESTED DEVELOPMENT ; 2. Coming-of-Age in Augustan Rome ; 3. Taming the Velox Puella ; 4. Two Senes: Delia and Messalla ; 5. Ovid: Elegy at the Crossroads ; PART TWO: UNVEILING AURORA: FROM PUELLA RELICTA TO PUELLA ANUS ; 6. The Waiting Game ; 7. Nature, Culture and the Puella Anus ; 8. Departure Strategies: The Elegist in Men's Time ; EPILOGUE ; BIBLIOGRAPHY ; INDEX