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Luxury as a theme in Latin love elegy
Bibliography: pages 170-180.
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| spelling | oai:open.uct.ac.za:11427/22121 Luxury as a theme in Latin love elegy Chandler, Clive Whitaker, Richard A Classical Studies Bibliography: pages 170-180. The territorial expansion of Rome in the second and first centuries B.C. was accompanied by an influx of foreign luxuries and fashions into Italy. Roman,society and literature responded to this influx ambiguously, but the overall tone was one of disapproval. The association of luxury with women, attested dramatically at the rescinding of the lex Oppia, was firmly established in erotic literature by the latter part of the first century B.C. Latin Love Elegy provides an opportunity for studying the response of a particular genre to the phenomenon of luxury in an erotic context. After a general introduction to the role of luxury in the economic life of Republican Rome, the literary response to luxury is investigated with special emphasis on erotic literature. Following this, the elegies of Propertius, Tibullus, and Ovid are analysed sequentially and in detail with respect to how these poems treat luxury. It is found that luxury in Latin Love Elegy retains the ambiguity associated with it outside erotic literature, and functions as a rhetorical tool in the process of seduction. ,The attitude of the elegiac persona to luxury sheds light on the fictional lover, and demonstrates how the elegists accommodate in their poetry traditional and contemporary views of a real phenomenon. 2016-10-14T06:22:27Z 2016-10-14T06:22:27Z 1991 Master Thesis Masters MA http://hdl.handle.net/11427/22121 eng application/pdf Classical Studies Faculty of Humanities University of Cape Town |
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