There Falls a Lone Tear: Longing for a Vanished Love – Tracing an Erotic Motif from Homer to Horace

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Preface V
3. Contents VII
4. Introducing Greek and Latin Love: The Poetic Connection 1
5. Love: Ancient and Later Representations 7
6. There Falls a Lone Tear: Longing for a Vanished Love – Tracing an Erotic Motif from Homer to Horace 29
7. Orpheus and Sappho as Model Poets: Blurring Greek and Latin Love in Lament for Bion, Catullus 51, and Horace Odes 1.24 39
8. Amans et Egens and Exclusus Amator: The Connection (or not) between Comedy and Elegy 59
9. Rape and Violence in Terence’s Eunuchus and Ovid’s Love Elegies 83
10. Love and Poetry in Virgil’s Sixth Eclogue: A Platonic Perspective 105
11. Longum Bibebat Amorem: Virgilian Adaptation of Sympotic Poetry 125
12. Philodemus and the Augustan Poets 145
13. Love and Politics in Horace’s Odes 4.10 167
14. Amores Plural: Ovidian Homoerotics in the Elegies 185
15. The Beloved: Figures and Words 213
16. List of Contributors 231
17. Bibliography 233
18. Index Locorum 255
19. Index Rerum 261