The erotics of domination : male desire and the mistress in Latin love poetry / Ellen Greene.
Baltimore, Md. : Johns Hopkins University Press, 1998. First Edition. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust-wrapper. Particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Item #447025
ISBN: 0801859816
Contents: The Catullan Ego : fragmentation and the erotic self -- Gendered domains : public and private in Catullus -- Elegiac woman : fantasy, Materia, and male desire in Propertius' Monobiblos -- Ovid's Amores : women, violence, and voyeurism -- Sexual politics in Ovid's Amores. Subjects; 43 B.C.-17 A.D. or 18 A.D. Criticism and interpretation. Catullus, Gaius Valerius Criticism and interpretation. Propertius, Sextus. Elegiae. Erotic poetry. Elegiac poetry, Latin History and criticism. Man-woman relationships in literature. Dominance (Psychology) in literature. Women and literature Rome. Masculinity in literature. Physical description; xvi, 142 pages ; 24 cm.
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