Luxury as a theme in Latin love elegy

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dc.contributor.advisorWhitaker, Richard Aen_ZA
dc.contributor.authorChandler, Cliveen_ZA
dc.date.accessioned2016-10-14T06:22:27Z
dc.date.available2016-10-14T06:22:27Z
dc.date.issued1991en_ZA
dc.descriptionBibliography: pages 170-180.en_ZA
dc.description.abstractThe territorial expansion of Rome in the second and first centuries B.C. was accompanied by an influx of foreign luxuries and fashions into Italy. Roman,society and literature responded to this influx ambiguously, but the overall tone was one of disapproval. The association of luxury with women, attested dramatically at the rescinding of the lex Oppia, was firmly established in erotic literature by the latter part of the first century B.C. Latin Love Elegy provides an opportunity for studying the response of a particular genre to the phenomenon of luxury in an erotic context. After a general introduction to the role of luxury in the economic life of Republican Rome, the literary response to luxury is investigated with special emphasis on erotic literature. Following this, the elegies of Propertius, Tibullus, and Ovid are analysed sequentially and in detail with respect to how these poems treat luxury. It is found that luxury in Latin Love Elegy retains the ambiguity associated with it outside erotic literature, and functions as a rhetorical tool in the process of seduction. ,The attitude of the elegiac persona to luxury sheds light on the fictional lover, and demonstrates how the elegists accommodate in their poetry traditional and contemporary views of a real phenomenon.en_ZA
dc.identifier.apacitationChandler, C. (1991). <i>Luxury as a theme in Latin love elegy</i>. (Thesis). University of Cape Town ,Faculty of Humanities ,Classical Studies. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/11427/22121en_ZA
dc.identifier.chicagocitationChandler, Clive. <i>"Luxury as a theme in Latin love elegy."</i> Thesis., University of Cape Town ,Faculty of Humanities ,Classical Studies, 1991. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/22121en_ZA
dc.identifier.citationChandler, C. 1991. Luxury as a theme in Latin love elegy. University of Cape Town.en_ZA
dc.identifier.ris TY - Thesis / Dissertation AU - Chandler, Clive AB - The territorial expansion of Rome in the second and first centuries B.C. was accompanied by an influx of foreign luxuries and fashions into Italy. Roman,society and literature responded to this influx ambiguously, but the overall tone was one of disapproval. The association of luxury with women, attested dramatically at the rescinding of the lex Oppia, was firmly established in erotic literature by the latter part of the first century B.C. Latin Love Elegy provides an opportunity for studying the response of a particular genre to the phenomenon of luxury in an erotic context. After a general introduction to the role of luxury in the economic life of Republican Rome, the literary response to luxury is investigated with special emphasis on erotic literature. Following this, the elegies of Propertius, Tibullus, and Ovid are analysed sequentially and in detail with respect to how these poems treat luxury. It is found that luxury in Latin Love Elegy retains the ambiguity associated with it outside erotic literature, and functions as a rhetorical tool in the process of seduction. ,The attitude of the elegiac persona to luxury sheds light on the fictional lover, and demonstrates how the elegists accommodate in their poetry traditional and contemporary views of a real phenomenon. DA - 1991 DB - OpenUCT DP - University of Cape Town LK - https://open.uct.ac.za PB - University of Cape Town PY - 1991 T1 - Luxury as a theme in Latin love elegy TI - Luxury as a theme in Latin love elegy UR - http://hdl.handle.net/11427/22121 ER - en_ZA
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dc.identifier.vancouvercitationChandler C. Luxury as a theme in Latin love elegy. [Thesis]. University of Cape Town ,Faculty of Humanities ,Classical Studies, 1991 [cited yyyy month dd]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/11427/22121en_ZA
dc.language.isoengen_ZA
dc.publisher.departmentClassical Studiesen_ZA
dc.publisher.facultyFaculty of Humanitiesen_ZA
dc.publisher.institutionUniversity of Cape Town
dc.subject.otherClassical Studiesen_ZA
dc.titleLuxury as a theme in Latin love elegyen_ZA
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