Latin Love Elegy

Features of love elegy...

• elegiac metre

• no key characters

• on tragic themes

• composed in the last 30 years of 1st Century BC

• composed in the first 30 years of 1st Century BC

This poet is considered an important pioneer for the others...

• Ovid

• Propertius

• Tibullus

• Catullus

This poet was exiled for a poem and a mistake...

• Propertius

• Catullus

• Ovid

• Tibullus

The _______ was usually a named woman who was beautiful and intelligent but permanently unavailable.

The praeceptor amoris is the...

• slave to love

• the soldier of love

• the priest of love

• the instructor of love

Typical characters of love elegy...

• the doorkeeper

• rival lover

• ugly slave

• slave go between

the locked out lover...

• exclusus amator

• servitium amoris

• praeceptor amoris

• excludus amator

Catullus wrote many poems to a mistress called

Typical features of love elegy:

• dramatic monologues

• direct speech

• mythology

• love as a disease

• commentary on current affairs

wealthy enough not to have a patron...

• Ovid

• Catullus

• Tibullus

• Propertius

• Horace