Paul Allen Miller is Director of Comparative Literature and Professor of Classics at the University of South Carolina. The author of "Lyric Texts and Lyric Consciousness and Latin Erotic Elegy", he has edited ten volumes, including "Rethinking Sexuality," (Princeton).

• ACKNOWLEDGMENTS ix CHAPTER ONE Toward a New History of Genre:Elegy and the Real 1 CHAPTER TWO The Catullan Sublime,Elegy, and the Emergence of the Real 31 CHAPTER THREE Cynthia as Symptom: Propertius, Gallus, and the Boys 60 CHAPTER FOUR "He Do the Police in Different Voices": The Tibullan Dream Text 95 CHAPTER FIVE Why Propertius Is a Woman 130 CHAPTER SIX Deconstructing the Vir: Lawand the Other in the Amores 160 CHAPTER SEVEN Displacing the Subject, Saving the Text 184 CHAPTER EIGHT Between the Two Deaths: Technologies of the Self in Ovid's Exilic Poetry 210 NOTES 237 BIBLIOGRAPHY 277 INDEX LOCORUM 303 GENERAL INDEX 307

"This work offers a panoramic analysis of a major literary genre, important for historic as well as aesthetic reasons, and of the scholarship produced on it over the past century. It applies a range of sophisticated contemporary theoretical perspectives to illuminate the genre as a whole and specific texts within it. Its close readings abound with new insights."—Judith P. Hallett, University of Maryland, College Park

Paul Allen Miller is Director of Comparative Literature and Professor of Classics at the University of South Carolina. The author of "Lyric Texts and Lyric Consciousness and Latin Erotic Elegy", he has edited ten volumes, including "Rethinking Sexuality," (Princeton).

• ACKNOWLEDGMENTS ix CHAPTER ONE Toward a New History of Genre:Elegy and the Real 1 CHAPTER TWO The Catullan Sublime,Elegy, and the Emergence of the Real 31 CHAPTER THREE Cynthia as Symptom: Propertius, Gallus, and the Boys 60 CHAPTER FOUR "He Do the Police in Different Voices": The Tibullan Dream Text 95 CHAPTER FIVE Why Propertius Is a Woman 130 CHAPTER SIX Deconstructing the Vir: Lawand the Other in the Amores 160 CHAPTER SEVEN Displacing the Subject, Saving the Text 184 CHAPTER EIGHT Between the Two Deaths: Technologies of the Self in Ovid's Exilic Poetry 210 NOTES 237 BIBLIOGRAPHY 277 INDEX LOCORUM 303 GENERAL INDEX 307

"This work offers a panoramic analysis of a major literary genre, important for historic as well as aesthetic reasons, and of the scholarship produced on it over the past century. It applies a range of sophisticated contemporary theoretical perspectives to illuminate the genre as a whole and specific texts within it. Its close readings abound with new insights."—Judith P. Hallett, University of Maryland, College Park

Paul Allen Miller is Director of Comparative Literature and Professor of Classics at the University of South Carolina. The author of "Lyric Texts and Lyric Consciousness and Latin Erotic Elegy", he has edited ten volumes, including "Rethinking Sexuality," (Princeton).

• ACKNOWLEDGMENTS ix CHAPTER ONE Toward a New History of Genre:Elegy and the Real 1 CHAPTER TWO The Catullan Sublime,Elegy, and the Emergence of the Real 31 CHAPTER THREE Cynthia as Symptom: Propertius, Gallus, and the Boys 60 CHAPTER FOUR "He Do the Police in Different Voices": The Tibullan Dream Text 95 CHAPTER FIVE Why Propertius Is a Woman 130 CHAPTER SIX Deconstructing the Vir: Lawand the Other in the Amores 160 CHAPTER SEVEN Displacing the Subject, Saving the Text 184 CHAPTER EIGHT Between the Two Deaths: Technologies of the Self in Ovid's Exilic Poetry 210 NOTES 237 BIBLIOGRAPHY 277 INDEX LOCORUM 303 GENERAL INDEX 307

"This work offers a panoramic analysis of a major literary genre, important for historic as well as aesthetic reasons, and of the scholarship produced on it over the past century. It applies a range of sophisticated contemporary theoretical perspectives to illuminate the genre as a whole and specific texts within it. Its close readings abound with new insights."—Judith P. Hallett, University of Maryland, College Park