Non-Elegiac Latin Love Poetry of Late Antiquity

Vasileios Pappas

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Non-Elegiac Latin Love Poetry of Late Antiquity

Vasileios Pappas

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Published/Copyright: 2025

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Volume 427 | Beiträge zur Altertumskunde

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For about five hundred years – between Ovid’s death (17 AD) and Maximianus’ Elegies (6^th century AD) – the genre of love elegy disappears. Does this mean that love poetry in general was no longer being written? This was certainly not the case. Poets continued to compose love poetry, merely in other forms than elegy. This book deals with non-elegiac Latin love poetry of Late Antiquity. It is the first monograph to focus on the metaliterary interpretation of four non-elegiac poetic works: the Pervigilium Veneris, Ausonius’ Bissula, Reposianus’ De concubitu Martis et Veneris, and the Aegritudo Perdicae. The book contains all the required information about these poems (including their date, authorship, structure, and literary tradition). However, its content is predominantly original, as it examines subjects that have not previously been discussed in the past. These include: a) the generic interaction between the poems’ ‘host’ genre and several ‘guest’ genres that are present within them; b) the metaliterary discourse developed in several passages, which reveals the metapoetic self-consciousness of their poets; c) their hidden demands for the innovation of love poetry; and d) their allusive comments on the conservatism of this era.

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Vasileios Pappas, University of Ioannina, Ioannina, Greece.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	I
Preface – Acknowledgements Publicly Available Download PDF	V
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	VII
1 Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	1
2 The Loss of the Muse: The Poetics of the Pervigilium Veneris Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	10
3 Ausonius’ Bissula: A German puella Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	53
4 Make Love, Not War: Reposianus’ De concubitu Martis et Veneris Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	98
5 Aegritudo Perdicae: The Death of Love Poetry? Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	144
6 Epilogue Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	221
List of Abbreviations Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	227
Bibliography Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	229
Electronic Sources Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	249
Index locorum Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	251
Index of names Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	271
Index of places Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	277
Index rerum Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	279
Index of manuscripts Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	283

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eBook published on:

May 19, 2025

eBook ISBN:

9783111709871

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May 19, 2025

Hardcover ISBN:

9783111709864

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Front matter:

8

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282

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https://doi.org/10.1515/9783111709871

eBook ISBN: 9783111709871

Hardcover ISBN: 9783111709864

Keywords for this book

Ausonius; Reposianus; elegy; love poetry

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Students and scholars in the fields of Late Antiquity and literatur studies

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Non-Elegiac Latin Love Poetry of Late Antiquity

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