The Politics of Desire: Propertius IV

Micaela Janan

UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA PRESS
Berkeley Los Angeles London
2001

Preferred Citation: Janan, Micaela. The Politics of Desire: Propertius IV. Berkeley: University of California Press, c2001 2001. http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/kt9x0nc9qg/

CONTENTS
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
A NOTE ON CITATION
Introduction

1. Theoretical Preliminaries
2. “Shadow of a Doubt”: Framing the Subject in the Gallus Poems
3. The Ethics of Evil: Arethusa to Lycotas (4.3)
4. “Beyond Good and Evil”: Tarpeia and Philosophy in the Feminine (4.4)
5. The Return of the Dead: The Acanthis Elegy (4.5)
6. “The Book of Revelation”: Cynthia's Truth (4.7)
7. Cynthia Returns from Lanuvium (4.8)
8. Hercules in Rome (4.9)
9. The Phenomenology of the Spirits (4.11)
10. Dreaming Rome

NOTES
BIBLIOGRAPHY
GENERAL INDEX
INDEX OF PROPERTIAN POEMS CITED
[Dedication]