Defining Genre and Gender in Roman Literature

The Roman confrontation and assimilation of Greek literature entailed a scrutiny, critique, and adaptation of generic assumptions. This book considers the ways in which major genres--among them comedy, lyric, elegy, epic, and the novel--were redefined to ac

Acknowledgments

vii

Abbreviations

ix

Introduction

1

(12)

William W. Batstone

13

(34)

Plautine Farce and Plautine Freedom: An Essay on the Value of Metatheatre

Alan Zeitlin

47

(14)

Plutarch's Moralia 712C, Menander's Love Plots, and Terence's Eunuchus

Richard Freis

61

(18)

Amor and Pietas:The Catullan Revolution and the Horatian Counter-Revolution

Anthony Corbeill

79

(18)

The Topography of Fides in Propertius 1.16

Garth Tissol

97

(16)

Maimed Books and Maimed Authors: Tristia 1.7 and the Fate of the Metamorphoses

Bracht Branham

113

(26)

The Poetics of Genre: Bakhtin, Menippus, Petronius

W. Ralph Johnson

139

(12)

Small Wonders: The Poetics of Martial, Book Fourteen

Carole Newlands

151

(24)

Animal Claquers: Statius Silv. 2.4 and 2.5

Gregson Davis

175

(18)

From Lyric to Elegy: The Inscription of the Elegiac Subject in Heroides 15 (Sappho to Phaon)

Elizabeth Sutherland

193

(18)

Literary Women in Horace's Odes 2.11 and 2.12

Ellen Greene

211

(28)

Gender and Genre in Propertius 2.8 and 2.9

Leslie Cahoon

239

(30)

Haunted Husbands: Orpheus's Song (Ovid, Metamorphoses 10-11) in Light of Ted Hughes's Birthday Letters

Sharon James

269

(32)

A Courtesan's Choreography: Female Liberty and Male Anxiety at the Roman Dinner Party

Jo-Ann Shelton

301

(30)

Putting Women in Their Place: Gender, Species, and Hierarchy in Apuleius' Metamorphoses

Works Cited

331

(16)

Publications of William S. Anderson

347

(6)

Contributors

353

(4)

Index Locorum

357

(4)

Index

361

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Defining Genre and Gender in Roman Literature : Essays Presented to William S. Anderson on His Seventy-Fifth Birthday

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