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Classical World CLASSICAL WORLD Published for the Classical Association of the Atlantic States by the Johns Hopkins University Press CO-EDITORS Robin Mitchell-Boyask, Lee T. Pearcy, Temple University Bryn Mawr College ASSOCIATE EDITOR Judith P. Hallett, University of Maryland, College Park ASSOCIATE EDITOR Victoria Pedrick, Georgetown University ASSOCIATE EDITOR James Romm, Bard College REVIEWS EDITOR David Sider, New York University ASSISTANT EDITOR Sarah Wahlberg, The Episcopal Academy EDITORIAL ASSISTANT Abbe Walker, Bryn Mawr College CAAS PRESIDENT Janet M. Martin, Princeton University CAAS EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR Mary Brown, Valley Forge Military Academy CCLWLW 1107.407.4 11stst ppages.inddages.indd i 77/3/2014/3/2014 33:18:55:18:55 PPMM Classical World ISSN 0009-8418 © 2014 by The Classical Association of the Atlantic States, Inc. All rights reserved. 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CCLWLW 1107.407.4 11stst ppages.inddages.indd iiii 77/3/2014/3/2014 33:18:59:18:59 PPMM CLASSICAL WORLD SPECIAL SECTION: RECENT WORK ON TIBULLUS Introduction: Recent Work on Tibullus Erika Zimmermann Damer | 443 Metrical Feet on the Road of Poetry: Foot Puns and Literary Polemic in Tibullus John Henkel | 451 Imperial Geographies in Tibullan Elegy Alison Keith | 477 Gender Reversals and Intertextuality in Tibullus Erika Zimmermann Damer | 493 ARTICLE Sexual Promiscuity of Non-Greeks in Herodotus’ Histories Richard Wenghofer | 515 SCHOLIA Croesus, Xerxes, and the Denial of Death (Hdt. 1.29-34; 7.44-53) William N. Turpin | 535 IN MEMORIAM | 543 OVATIONES ET GRATULATIO | 545 REVIEWS | 553 BOOKS RECEIVED | 571 INDEX TO VOLUME 107 | 579 WHOLE NUMBER 1592 CCLWLW 1107.407.4 11stst ppages.inddages.indd iiiiii 77/3/2014/3/2014 33:18:59:18:59 PPMM Robin Mitchell Boyask Temple University 1114 West Berks St. Philadelphia, PA 19122 email: [email protected] CCLWLW 1107.407.4 11stst ppages.inddages.indd iivv 77/3/2014/3/2014 33:18:59:18:59 PPMM INTRODUCTION Recent Work on Tibullus* ERIKA ZIMMERMANN DAMER ABSTRACT: This introduction provides an overview of Tibullus’ life, his poetry, and his style, and offers a bibliographical survey of emerging critical trends in interpreting this relatively neglected Roman elegist. Roman poets and literary critics widely praised Tibullus’ poetry: Horace teases the elegist (Carm. 1.33, Ep. 1.4); Ovid praises his poetry (Am. 1.15.28, Ars 3.334, Rem. 763, Tr. 4.10.51–53) and eulogizes him after his death (Am. 3.9); and both Velleius Paterculus (2.36.3) and Quin- tilian (Inst. 10.1.93) elevate him to the top of the elegiac canon. Yet despite the ancients’ high esteem for him, Tibullus has done less well among moderns. Both in the classroom and in Anglo-American scholar- ship, he has garnered far less praise and attention than either Propertius or Ovid. This tide may now be turning: we have two new translations1 and a new reader,2 all of which promise to bring Tibullus’ poems to a wider student audience. The two translations feature the work of two of Tibullus’ great commentators: the posthumous translation of Rod- ney Dennis completed and expanded by Michael Putnam attempts to reproduce Tibullus’ “immediate, unpretentious, but deceptively simple *Many thanks are due to our audience members and to my fellow panelists at the APA’s 2009 panel on “New Approaches to Tibullus”: Alison Keith, John Henkel and David Wray; to Sharon James and Jim O’Hara for their generous and acute feedback throughout different stages of this project; and to Megan Drinkwater and Konstantinos Nikoloutsos for sharing advance copies of their work. The Faculty Research Council at the University of Richmond provided generous support for this project. I wish also to thank CW’s anon- ymous referees for their helpful feedback and its editors (both previous and current) Mat- thew Santirocco, Judith Hallett, Robin Mitchell-Boyask, and Lee Pearcy for being effi cient, thorough, and fair. Any errors that remain in this collection are mine alone. 1 A. M. Juster, tr., Tibullus Elegies. With an introduction and notes by R. Maltby (Oxford 2012); R. Dennis and M. Putnam, trs., The Complete Poems of Tibullus. An En Face Bilingual Edition. With an introduction by J. H. Gaisser (Berkeley 2012). 2 P. A. Miller. A Tibullus Reader. Seven Selected Elegies (Mundelein, Ill. 2013). Classical World, vol. 107, no. 4 (2014) Pp.443–450 CCLWLW 1107.407.4 11stst ppages.inddages.indd 444343 77/3/2014/3/2014 33:18:59:18:59 PPMM 444 Classical World style,”3 while A. M. Juster, in a new Oxford World’s Classics edition introduced and annotated by Robert Maltby, seeks to capture internal and end-rhyme as well as to imitate Tibullus’ alliteration and assonance.4 Since these new publications promise to improve Tibullus’ fortunes in the classroom, the time is ripe to refocus scholarly attention on this un- der-appreciated Augustan elegist. We have therefore brought together in one place several innovative critical approaches to Tibullus’ poetry in hopes of fostering many more fruitful conversations. The essays that follow formed the core of an APA panel on “New Approaches to Tibullus” and represent several of the new avenues that have emerged in the study of Tibullus’ poetry in the decade since the publication of Maltby’s scholarly commentary in 2002. John Henkel’s essay on foot puns offers a philological study of Tibullus’ references to feet, which builds upon the groundwork of Keith and Fineberg to at- tempt a metapoetic reading of poem 1.1.5 Alison Keith’s essay examines Tibullus’ aestheticization of imperialism, engaging in dialogue along the way with Keith’s own work on Propertius and with Lowell Bowditch’s recent series of articles on post-colonialism and imperialism in Roman love elegy.6 Finally, Erika Zimmermann Damer’s essay on Tibullan allu- sion and gender reversals brings continued attention to the Marathus poems (1.4, 1.8, 1.9), where elegy offers its most intense experiment in representing male-male love.7 3 Dennis (above, n.1) x. 4 Juster (above, n.1) xxviii. 5 A. Keith, “Slender Verse: Roman Elegy and Ancient Rhetorical Theory,” Mnemo- syne 52 (1999) 41–62; B. Fineberg, “From a Sure Foot to Faltering Meters: the Dark Ladies of Tibullan Elegy,” in M. DeForest, ed., Woman’s Power, Man’s Game: Essays on Classical Antiquity in Honor of Joy K. King (Wauconda, Ill. 1993) 249–56; B. Fineberg, “Repetition and the Poetics of Desire in Tibullus 1.4,” CW 92 (2000) 419–28. 6 A. Keith, Propertius, Poet of Love and Leisure (London 2008); L. Bowditch, “Prop- ertius and the Gendered Rhetoric of Luxury and Empire: A Reading of 2.16,” CLS 43 (2006) 306–25; L.
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