Bookshelf

Alumni and faculty members who would like to have their books considered for this listing should contact Stacey Himmelberger, editor of Hamilton magazine. This list, which dates back to 2018, is updated periodically with books appearing alphabetically on the date of entry.

A Guide to Latin Lyric and Elegy by Barbara Gold, the Edward North Chair of Greek and Greek Literature and professor of classics emerita, and Genevieve Liveley

March 1, 2022

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(Hoboken, N.J.: Wiley Blackwell, 2021)
Part of the Blackwell Guides to Classical Literature series, this book “explores the language of Latin poetry while helping readers understand the socio-cultural context of the remarkable period of Roman literary history in which the poetry was composed. With an innovative approach to this important area of classical scholarship, the authors treat elegy alongside lyric as they cover topics such as the Hellenistic influences on Augustan poetry, the key figures that shaped the elegiac tradition of Rome, the motifs of militia amoris (‘the warfare of love’) and servitium amoris (‘the slavery of love’) in Latin love elegy, and more,” according to the publisher.