Latin Love Poetry

Denise Eileen McCoskey is Associate Professor of Classics and Black World Studies at Miami University (Ohio). Zara Martirosova Torlone is Associate Professor of Classics at Miami University (Ohio)

'This insightful new introduction to the study of Roman love poetry offers a highly engaging and detailed primer, guiding students through the complexities and pleasures of reading and responding to Latin love elegy. Focusing primarily upon the Augustan elegists, but taking in the influences of Catullus, Gallus and Sulpicia along the way, Latin Love Poetry presents an accessible and articulate roadmap for all undergraduates looking to find their way towards a better understanding of this fascinating body of work.' Genevieve Liveley, Senior Lecturer in Classics, University of Bristol, author of Ovid: Love Songs and Ovid's 'Metamorphoses': A Reader's Guide 'Latin Love Poetry offers a clearly written and comprehensive synthesis of the most important scholarship on Latin erotic elegy from the last thirty years. A worthy successor to Lyne's The Latin Love Poets (1981), it will be this generation's vade mecum for all those entering the field.' Paul Allen Miller, Professor of Classics and Comparative Literature, University of South Carolina, author of Latin Erotic Elegy: An Anthology and Critical Reader and Subjecting Verses: Latin Love Elegy

• IllustrationsIntroduction1. Beginnings and Backgrounds2. Author and Ego3. Power and Play4. Readers and Writers5. Country and City6. Love and Exile7. Death and AfterlifeConclusionNotesRecommended ReadingIndex