The elegiac book: patterns and problems

A significant part of the Hellenistic heritage of the Latin poets of the first century BCE was a concern for the arrangement of their poems in books. There are clear traces of this in Catullus, when poems 1 and 22 show an interest in publication, for example, or the paired kiss poems 5 and 7 are poi...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Heyworth, SJ
Other Authors: Gold, BK
Format: Book section
Language:English
Published: Wiley 2012