Book contents
- The Cambridge Companion to Latin Love Elegy
- Series page
- The Cambridge Companion to Latin Love Elegy
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Notes on contributors
- Preface
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Part I History and context
- Part II The Latin love elegists
- Part III The elegiac world
- Part IV The ends of Latin love elegy
- 13 Loves and elegy
- 14 Latin love elegy and other genres
- 15 Breaking the rules
- Part V Receptions
- Part VI Metre
- Dateline
- Works cited
- Index
15 - Breaking the rules
Elegy, matrons and mime
from Part IV - The ends of Latin love elegy
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 18 December 2013
- The Cambridge Companion to Latin Love Elegy
- Series page
- The Cambridge Companion to Latin Love Elegy
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Notes on contributors
- Preface
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Part I History and context
- Part II The Latin love elegists
- Part III The elegiac world
- Part IV The ends of Latin love elegy
- 13 Loves and elegy
- 14 Latin love elegy and other genres
- 15 Breaking the rules
- Part V Receptions
- Part VI Metre
- Dateline
- Works cited
- Index
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- The Cambridge Companion to Latin Love Elegy , pp. 239 - 254Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2013