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Per exempla: amore elegiaco, matrimonio ed etica della famiglia in Properzio

2018

From exemplary mythical heroines to exemplary matrons of Augustan aristocracy: these are the poles of the transformation process that the female models undergo in propertian elegy, while their didactic-psych- agogic function goes running out and it can be explored another kind of referentiality especially on the book four of the collection. The κένωσις of a repertoire contrasts with the enrichment of another one, represented by an elegiac wife and a matron. The design of emblematic characters such as Elia Galla and Arethusa corresponds to an ‘experimental engagement’ of a prototype in another one by which results the new type of ‘elegiac bride’, linked to a kind of secluded life, spent in t…