Roman Love Elegy and the Eros of Empire

by Phebe Lowell Bowditch

This book explores Roman love elegy from postcolonial perspectives, arguing that the tropes, conventions, and discourses of the Augustan genre serve to reinforce the imperial identity of its elite, metropolitan audience. Love elegy presents the phenomena and discourses of Roman imperialism--in terms of visual spectacle (the military triumph), literary genre (epic in relation to elegy), material culture (art and luxury goods), and geographic space--as...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3031147995
• ISBN13: 9783031147999
• Release Date: May 2023
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 330 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.8" x 8.3"