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- Title
A Lover not a Fighter? Poetic and Aristocratic Honor in Tibullus 1.3.
- Authors
Pasqua, Federico di
- Abstract
Tibullus 1.3 constructs a narrative that blends traditional and elegiac themes. This synthesis, instantiated in Delia's matronly virtue and the love poet's militaristic epitaph, constitutes the poem's narrative core, in which Tibullus establishes a traditional dimension for his amorous pursuits. Furthermore, by casting himself as a Roman Odysseus, the speaker asserts heroic status for himself, both as a litterateur and as an upright Roman male. 1.3, at the same time, highlights Tibullus' loyalty to his milieu, pledged on the poet's imaginary epitaph, thus embedding his erotic pursuits as a love poet within the traditional values (honos, pudicitia, pietas) of Rome's elite.
- Subjects
TIBULLUS, ca. 55 B.C.-19 B.C.; VIRTUE; EPITAPHS; ODYSSEUS, King of Ithaca (Mythological character); ELITE (Social sciences)
- Publication
Classical World, 2023, Vol 116, Issue 2, p173
- ISSN
0009-8418
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1353/clw.2023.0002