Introduction
I. Love Poetry
1: Mistress and Metaphor in Augustan Elegy
2: Written Women: Propertius' scripta puella (2. 10-13)
3: The Elegiac Woman at Rome: Propertius Book 4
4: Reading Female Flesh: Ovid Amores 3. 1
5: Taking the Woman's Part: Gender and Scholarship on Love
Elegy
II. Reception
6: Meretrix regina: Augustan Cleopatras
7: Oriental Vamp; Cleopatra 1910s
8: Glamour Girl: Cleopatra 1930s-1960s
9: Meretrix Augusta: Messalina 1870s-1920s
10: Suburban Feminist: Messalina 1930s-1970s
Maria Wyke is Senior Lecturer in Classics at the University of Reading.
Wyke's essays...powerfully demonstrated the artificiality of the
elegiac world, its women in particular. Wyke's key insight about
love elegy is that...the elegiac woman has everything to do with
the construction of a provocative male persona, and very little to
do with women per se.
*Times Literary Supplement*
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