Miller offers a complete course on the Latin erotic elegists, helping to trace the genre's rise and fall, and to understand its relation to the changes that marked the collapse of the Roman republic and the founding of the empire.
Draws a distinction between the work of Greek lyricists and the more condensed personal poetry we associate with lyric, presenting a Bakhtinian reading of lyric development from its Greek origin s to the individualistic style of Augustan Rome.
Draws a distinction between the work of Greek lyricists and the more condensed personal poetry we associate with lyric, presenting a Bakhtinian reading of lyric development from its Greek origin s to the individualistic style of Augustan Rome.
Miller offers a complete course on the Latin erotic elegists, helping to trace the genre's rise and fall, and to understand its relation to the changes that marked the collapse of the Roman republic and the founding of the empire.
A wide-ranging collection of essays that makes the case for the humanities as central to our self-understanding, for theory as the latest incarnation of a perennial concern with the relation between words and things, and for the ancient as constitutive of the modern.