In ancient Latin elegy, Propertius and Lydgamus were Cynthia’s slaves. Men must seek peace, not through war, but by imagining true gender equality in love. … Read the post change must come: learn from Lygdamus & Propertius vs. domina Cynthia
Writing with love for men, Walahfrid in an epic Christian garden poem used the rose and lily to reject love & war in Gallus’s love elegy and classical epic. … Read the post Walahfrid’s rural rose & lily respond to love and war in Roman elegy
Propertius credited Cynthia for his poetic success. Prudentius blamed Adam alone for the fall. That’s classical gender work in allocating credit & blame. … Read the post Propertius & Prudentius show gender allocation of credit and blame
Reading well gender and violence against men in Parthenius’s stories, Tibullus challenged the poetic figuring of love and war in Gallus’s love elegy. … Read the post Tibullus with Parthenius against Gallus on gender in love & war
An early Arabic poem — Buthaynah and Jamīl’s conversation on aging — works to redeem Roman love elegy in exquisite, humane poetic truth. … Read the post early Arabic love poetry caps Roman love elegy on aging