This collection explores Vergil’s engagement with the genre of elegy across various themes, linguistic traditions, and historical periods.

Edited by Alison Keith and Micah Y. Myers

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Introduction
Alison Keith

Part One: Elegy in Vergil

1. Elegy and Metapoetic Polemic in Vergil’s First Eclogue
John Henkel

2. Generic Polemic in the Bucolics: Vergil, Gallus, and remedia amoris
Jacqueline Fabre-Serris

3. Elegiac Revaluations of the Golden Age: Saturn’s Exile in Vergil and Tibullus
Hunter H. Gardner

4. Roman Returns: Nostos in Vergil and Propertius
Micah Y. Myers

5. Lust in Lions and Lovers: Hunting for Civic Virtue in Vergil, Propertius, and Early Greek Elegy
Eva Anagnostou-Laoutides

6. From Caieta to Erato: Vergil’s Elegiac Program in Aeneid 7.1-45
Sarah McCallum

7. Elegising the Roman Dirge
Bill Gladhill

Part Two: Vergil in Ovidian Elegy

8. Pasiphaë in Vergil’s Bucolics and Ovid’s Ars Amatoria: A Bovine Lover’s Discourse
Mariapia Pietropaolo

9. Supprime, Musa, querellas: Ovid’s Elegiac Aristaeus
Barbara Weiden Boyd

10. Lamenting Tibullus as Literary Critique: Elegy and Vergilian Epic in Ovid, Amores 3.9
Judith P. Hallett

11. The Hero and the Procuress: Anna and Her Elegiac Interface
Sophia Papaioannou

12. The Presence of Vergil in Ovid’s Epistulae ex Ponto 1.8
Garth Tissol

Part Three: Vergil and Elegy in Imperial Latin Literature

13. The Errant Flock: Calpurnius Siculus’ Bucolic Response to Elegy
Yelena Baraz

14. From Militia Amoris to Amor Militiae: Language of Rape in Lucan’s Account of the Deforestation of the Sacred Grove of Massilia
Giulio Celotto

15. Through the Looking Glass: Epic Exempla and Elegiac Mirrors in the Argonautica
Jessica Blum-Sorensen

16. Epic and Elegy in the Poems of Statius
Alessandra De Cristofaro

Part Four: Vergil’s Elegiac Mode in Reception

17. Et in Arcadia Ego: Vergil the Elegist
Nandini B. Pandey

18. The Absence of Elegiac Poets in Servius’ Commentary on Vergil
Giancarlo Abbamonte

19. Ovidian Ghosts in Ausonius’ Mourning Fields: Reading Vergil through Ovid in the Cupido Cruciatus
Kenneth Draper

20. Vergil’s Renaissance Rebirth: Genre and Geography in Pontano, Eridanus 1.14
Luke Roman

21. Vergil and Antiquarian Poetry in Distichs in the Kingdom of Naples: Four Case Studies (Fifteenth-Sixteenth Centuries)
Lorenzo Miletti

22. Elegiac Loss and the Poetics of Translation in Vergil’s Aeneid and Ariosto’s Orlando Furioso
Joseph Ortiz

Works Cited
Contributors
Index Locorum
General Index