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      Fides, contractual language, and the construction of gender in Propertius 3.20

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      Date
      2007
      Author
      Racette-Campbell, Melanie
      Type
      Thesis
      Degree Level
      Masters
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      Abstract
      Propertius 3.20 is a poem that has received relatively little critical attention for its merits as a poem or its relationship to the poet’s larger poetic project and to the turbulent era in which it was written. Here, the poem is placed into its literary and cultural context and subjected to a gendered reading influenced by modern feminist theory. Propertius 3.20 uses the language of fidelity and contracts that was traditionally associated with solemn legal ceremonies and agreements in his depiction of a socially illegitimate relationship between a lover and his mistress. The destabilization of relationships caused by the application of this language to the demimonde leads to a problematization of the gender roles of the actors in the relationships. Propertius 3.20 raises issues relevant to the construction of gender in the Propertian corpus and the crisis of masculinity triggered by the rise of Augustus.
      Degree
      Master of Arts (M.A.)
      Department
      History
      Program
      History
      Supervisor
      Porter, John R.
      Committee
      Swan, Michael; Parkinson, David J.; Kalinowski, Angela
      Copyright Date
      2007
      URI
      http://hdl.handle.net/10388/etd-09242007-112911
      Subject
      gender studies
      Latin elegy
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