CLAS 3P14 Lecture : roman literature.docx
29 May 2014
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Gallus (c. 69 26 bc) father of latin elegy: definitive influence on developing genre, wrote four books of elgy, entitled amores, in which he wrote about love for lycoris , erotic elements, mythological elements, learning, greek models, introduced/developed many generic features of elegy: servitium amoris; mistess as poetic inspiration, inner conflict with traditional values, poetry as courtship etc. She prevents his access to beloved: lover poet over hears lena, the instructor of love, advising the beloved to use beauty and youth to attract a wealthy rural lover in amores 1. 9, ovid plays with the theme of militia amoris, ovid virtually equates, rather than contrasts, lover and soldier, the lover, like the soldier is busy and has no time for leisure, he marches, like a soldier on campaign, to reach the beloved, he pursues his erotic rivals as soldiers pursue the enemy, he besieges the threshold of the beloved like an enemy city.
