"A groundbreaking examination of power relations in Roman
elegy"
In recent decades, scholars in the field of classics have paid
increasing attention to gender and sexual politics in Latin elegiac
poetry. In "The Erotics of Domination, " Ellen Greene re-examines
long-held scholarly attitudes concerning the representation of male
sexual desire and female subjection in the Latin love poetry of
Catullus, Propertius, and Ovid. Analyzing first-person poetic
personae that critics have often romanticized, Greene finds that
whereas the Catullan lover appears to struggle against his own
"feminization," the Roman elegiac poets--particularly Propertius
and Ovid--proclaim a radically unconventional philosophy in their
seemingly deliberate inversion of conventional sex roles. Through
the servitude of the male lover to his mistress, the woman
achieves, at least nominally, complete domination and control over
him.
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