Maximianus' ‘Elegies': Love Elegy Grew Old (Beitrage Zur Altertumskunde, 406)

This book offers a new reading of Maximianus' Elegies, who has been characterized as 'the last love elegist of Antiquity'. It examines subjects such as intertextuality, intratextuality, generic interaction, and the poet's metapoetic self-consciousness. The author studies the two main purposes of Maximianus' poetry, namely: to state that the genre of love elegy had become obsolete during his era; and to attempt to innovate within the genre. It is the first monograph on Maximianus' poetics'.

• | Author: Vasileios Pappas
• | Publisher: Walter De Gruyter
• | Publication Date: Dec 05, 2022
• | Number of Pages: 254 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover
• | ISBN-10: 3110770377
• | ISBN-13: 9783110770377