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This study transforms our understanding of Roman love elegy, an important and complex corpus of poetry that flourished in the late first century b.c.e. Sharon L. James reads key poems by Propertius, Tibullus, and Ovid for the first time from the perspective of the woman to whom they are addressed--the docta puella, or learned girl, the poet's beloved. By interpreting the poetry not, as has always been done, from the stance of the elite male writers--as plaint and confession--but rather from the

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Author

Sharon Lynn James

Publisher

Berkeley : University Of California Press, C2003.

Published

2003

Language

EN

ISBN

9781597347075

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Poetry, History

Updated

2026-03-25