A Companion to Roman Love Elegy is the first comprehensive
work dedicated solely to the study of love elegy. The genre is
explored through 33 original essays thatoffer new and innovative
approaches to specific elegists and the discipline as a
whole.
* Contributors represent a range of established names and younger
scholars, all of whom are respected experts in their fields
* Contains original, never before published essays, which are
both accessible to a wide audience and offer a new approach to the
love elegists and their work
* Includes 33 essays on the Roman elegists Catullus, Tibullus,
Propertius, Sulpicia, and Ovid, as well as their Greek and Roman
predecessors and later writers who were influenced by their
work
* Recent years have seen an explosion of interest in Roman elegy
from scholars who have used a variety of critical approaches to
open up new avenues of understanding
