An edition of The erotics of domination
(1998)
The erotics of domination
male desire and the mistress in Latin love poetry
by Ellen Greene
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The study of women in antiquity is a well-established area of research in the classics. In The Erotics of Domination, Ellen Greene re-examines long-held scholarly attitudes concerning the representation of male sexual desire and female subjection in the Latin love poetry of Catullus, Propertius, and Ovid.
Examining first-person poetic personae that have often been romanticized by critics, Greene finds that male sexuality is consistently threatened as moral resolve and social status are undermined by desires that render men passively "womanish": powerless and emotional.
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Criticism and interpretation, Desire in literature, Dominance (Psychology) in literature, Elegiac poetry, Latin, Erotic poetry, Latin, History and criticism, In literature, Latin Elegiac poetry, Latin Erotic poetry, Latin Love poetry, Love poetry, Latin, Man-woman relationships in literature, Masculinity in literature, Mistresses, Sex in literature, Violence in literature, Women and literature, Poetry (poetic works by one author)Places
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The erotics of domination: male desire and the mistress in Latin love poetry
1998, Johns Hopkins University Press
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0801859816 9780801859816
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 129-135) and index.
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