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The Natural and Unnatural Silence of Women in the Elegies of Propertius

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 May 2015

Barbara K. Gold
Barbara K. Gold*
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Hamilton College, U.S.A
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I begin with a quote from W.R. Johnson on Propertius 4.11: ‘When we have finally gotten to Cornelia, whose central message is that the game of recusatio has ended, overwhelmed by her chilly sublimities and conquered by the powers of her Roman Truths and Virtues – when the performance ends and the silence begins, we may be shocked to hear Cynthia laughing loudly at the lachrymose deity and the metonymic skid that has now enfolded him.

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Antichthon , Volume 41 , 2007 , pp. 54 - 72
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Copyright © Australasian Society for Classical Studies 2007

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