Vergil and Elegy

Alison Keith is a professor of classics and director of the Jackman Humanities Institute at the University of Toronto. Micah Y. Myers is an associate professor of classics at Kenyon College.

• AcknowledgmentsAbbreviationsIntroductionAlison KeithPart One: Elegy in Vergil1. Elegy and Metapoetic Polemic in Vergil’s First EclogueJohn Henkel2. Generic Polemic in the Bucolics: Vergil, Gallus, and remedia amorisJacqueline Fabre-Serris3. Elegiac Revaluations of the Golden Age: Saturn’s Exile in Vergil and TibullusHunter H. Gardner4. Roman Returns: Nostos in Vergil and PropertiusMicah Y. Myers5. Lust in Lions and Lovers: Hunting for Civic Virtue in Vergil, Propertius, and Early Greek ElegyEva Anagnostou-Laoutides6. From Caieta to Erato: Vergil’s Elegiac Program in Aeneid 7.1–45Sarah McCallum7. Elegising the Roman DirgeBill GladhillPart Two: Vergil in Ovidian Elegy8. Pasiphaë in Vergil’s Bucolics and Ovid’s Ars Amatoria: A Bovine Lover’s DiscourseMariapia Pietropaolo9. Supprime, Musa, querellas: Ovid’s Elegiac AristaeusBarbara Weiden Boyd10. Lamenting Tibullus as Literary Critique: Elegy and Vergilian Epic in Ovid, Amores 3.9Judith P. Hallett11. The Hero and the Procuress: Anna and Her Elegiac InterfaceSophia Papaioannou12. The Presence of Vergil in Ovid’s Epistulae ex Ponto 1.8Garth TissolPart Three: Vergil and Elegy in Imperial Latin Literature13. The Errant Flock: Calpurnius Siculus’ Bucolic Response to ElegyYelena Baraz14. From Militia Amoris to Amor Militiae: Language of Rape in Lucan’s Account of the Deforestation of the Sacred Grove of MassiliaGiulio Celotto15. Through the Looking Glass: Epic Exempla and Elegiac Mirrors in the ArgonauticaJessica Blum-Sorensen16. Epic and Elegy in the Poems of StatiusAlessandra De CristofaroPart Four: Vergil’s Elegiac Mode in Reception17. Et in Arcadia Ego: Vergil the ElegistNandini B. Pandey18. The Absence of Elegiac Poets in Servius’ Commentary on VergilGiancarlo Abbamonte19. Ovidian Ghosts in Ausonius’ Mourning Fields: Reading Vergil through Ovid in the Cupido CruciatusKenneth Draper20. Vergil’s Renaissance Rebirth: Genre and Geography in Pontano, Eridanus 1.14Luke Roman21. Vergil and Antiquarian Poetry in Distichs in the Kingdom of Naples: Four Case Studies (Fifteenth–Sixteenth Centuries) Lorenzo Miletti22. Elegiac Loss and the Poetics of Translation in Vergil’s Aeneid and Ariosto’s Orlando FuriosoJoseph OrtizWorks CitedContributorsIndex LocorumGeneral Index