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1 Desiring Rome: Ovidian erotic elegy
RCS Term 2, Lecture 2 Desiring Rome: Ovidian erotic elegy

2 Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria 10.1.93:
‘In elegy, too, we challenge the Greeks. The most refined and elegant author seems to me to be Tibullus. Some prefer Propertius. Ovid is more lascivious (lascivior) than these two; Gallus is stiffer (durior).’

3 elegia queror = I complain, I lament

4 The elegiac flute: calamus harundo

5 Love elegy’s girls Antimachus of Colophon (5-4 c. BCE): Lyde
Gallus: Lycoris Tibullus: Delia Propertius: Cynthia Ovid: Corinna

6 Influences Epigram New comedy Mime Pastoral poetry
Oratory and rhetoric

7 Space/scale Time Politics Ethics gender

8 Counter-cultural elegy/lover
The rebel lover rejects traditional vehicles and arenas for Roman masculine identity: The law /the forum (yet amor is rhetoric) The army /battlefield (militia amoris instead) Public political life / the senate

9 Otium - negotium - officium Leisure - work - duty
A life of leisure Otium - negotium - officium Leisure - work - duty

10 productive anagrams… AMOR – MORA Roma - amor mora = delay, deferral

11 Servitium amoris / amor servae

12 LUSUS - Play

13 Love without end Imperium sine fine … amor sine fine …

14 Global fame: totus orbis (= ‘the whole world’)
In toto semper canter in orbe (Amores ) Canetur toto nomen in orbe meum (Ars 2.740) Dum toto canter in orbe (Remedia 363)

15 Amores 1.1 arma gravi numero violentaque bella parabam
Arms and the violent deeds of war I was preparing, in weighty rhythm… Aeneid 1.1: arma virumque cano Aeneid 6.86: bella, horrida bella…cerno

16 Neo-Hellenistic compactness
Keywords Tenuitas = slenderness Brevitas = brevity

17 recusatio = ‘refusal’ Callimachus, Aetia prologue
Virgil Eclogues 6.3ff. Propertius 3.3 Horace Odes ff.

18 ‘castrated’ hexameters?
Hexameter (6 metrical ‘feet’) - - /- -/ - -/- -/- -/- - -uu/-uu/-uu/-uu / -u Pentameter (5 metrical ‘feet’) - /- - / - //-uu / - uu / - -uu/-uu/- //-uu / - uu /u

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20 Two epigrams… Qui modo Nasonis fueramus quinque libelli, tres sumus; hoc illi praetulit auctor opus. ut iam nulla tibi nos sit legisse voluptas, at levior demptis poena duobus erit. Ille ego qui quondam gracili modulatus avena carmen, et egressus silvis vicina coegi ut quamvis avido parerent arva colono, gratum opus agricolis, at nunc horrentia Martis (arma virumque cano…)

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