LT 375 - Latin Elegy

(3.00 cr.)

Prerequisite: LT 104 or equivalent. Students are introduced to the themes and conventions of Latin elegy via select poems of Propertius, Tibullus, and Ovid (Amores, Ars Amatoria, Tristia). The course examines issues such as gender, genre, and the literary politics of Augustan Rome. It also situates elegy within its wider historical context through supplementary readings of love poetry from antiquity through the Renaissance and beyond.