Barbara K. Gold is Edward North Professor Emerita at Hamilton College. She is the editor of Literary and Artistic Patronage in Ancient Rome, author of Literary Patronage in Greece and Rome, and co-editor of Sex and Gender in Medieval and Renaissance Texts: The Latin Tradition, and Roman Dining. She has published widely on satire, lyric and elegy, feminist theory, sex and gender, comedy, and late antiquity. Her Blackwell Companion to Roman Love Elegy was published in 2012, and Roman Literature, Gender and Reception: Domina Illustris (co-edited, Routledge) was published in 2013. Her latest book is Perpetua: Athlete of God (Oxford University Press, 2018).
Genevieve Liveley is Professor of Classics, RISCS Fellow, and Turing Fellow at the University of Bristol. She has particular research interests in ancient narratives and in narrative theories (both ancient and modern) and has published widely on this subject, mostly recently as the author of Narratology for OUP's Classics in Theory series. She is also the author of two books on Ovid: A Reader's Guide to Ovid's Metamorphoses and Ovid's Love Songs. She co-edited (with Patricia Salzman-Mitchell) Elegy and Narratology: Fragments of Story and her other publications include (among other topics) articles and essays on the classical tradition, chaos theory, and cyborgs.

Preface vii
Introduction: How to Read and Teach a Latin Elegiac or Lyric Poem 1
1 The Literary, Political and Social Contexts of Latin Elegy and Lyric 7
2 Catullus 24
3 Horace 39
4 Tibullus 55
5 Propertius 70
6 Ovid 85
7 Sulpicia 100
8 Other Elegiac and Lyric Poets 110
9 Tropes and Themes in Elegy and Lyric 122
10 Critical Approaches to Elegiac and Lyric Poetry 137
Bibliography 152
Index 163