Powerplay in Tibullus

Reading Elegies Book One

By: Parshia Lee-Stecum, P. E. Easterling (Editor), M. K. Hopkins (Editor)

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Hardcover | 10 August 1998

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This study explores the subtle, many-faceted interplay of power in Tibullus' first book of elegies. A series of power relationships is created by the text (lover and beloved, poet and patron), and the processes through which power of various sorts can be exercised are brought to the foreground. Such powerplay within the text of Tibullus 1 has ramifications well beyond the erotic sphere. Gender categories, rural life, religion, militia, patronage are among the areas subsumed within and determined by the operation of power dynamics in this consistently underrated Augustan text. Taking a linear reading of Book 1 as its basis, this study uncovers the shifting, unstable ground of Tibullan elegy. The result is picture of the poet and text of Book 1 far removed from the bland, safe, and urbane 'Tibullus' of previous criticism.

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Introduction
Poem One
Poem Two
Poem Three
Poem Four
Poem Five
Poem Six
Poem Seven
Poem Eight
Poem Nine
Poem Ten
Conclusion
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