"This is an engagingly written, creative, and frequently very persuasive book."--Rebecca Armstrong, Classical Journal"This book poses an arresting new question--why is jealousy so pervasive in Latin love elegy?--and offers illuminating answers. Lucidly and attractively written, this study makes a valuable contribution to the study of emotions in Roman culture and offers a striking new viewpoint for reading Latin love elegy."--Christopher Gill, University of Exeter"Has Roman love elegy lost its way? If so, Ruth Caston is a new voice in elegy, and her monograph offers a compelling new direction for the genre. No longer will ancient philosophy be dismissed as irrelevant or of limited value for understanding love elegy and the naked emotions in which it deals. Above all, jealousy--so curiously under--developed in other genres-is shown to create and structure many of the elements that we understand as fundamentally elegiac."--Roy Gibson, University of Manchester
