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Law and Love in Ovid - Ioannis Ziogas

Law and Love in Ovid

Courting Justice in the Age of Augustus

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Buch | Hardcover
436 Seiten
2021
Oxford University Press (Verlag)
978-0-19-884514-0 (ISBN)
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Law and Love in Ovid challenges the view that legal language in poetry is a sign of frivolity and argues that it signals a radical return to the roots of law's creation.
In classical scholarship, the presence of legal language in love poetry is commonly interpreted as absurd and incongruous. Ovid's legalisms have been described as frivolous, humorous, and ornamental. Law and Love in Ovid challenges this wide-spread, but ill-informed view. Legal discourse in Latin love poetry is not incidental, but fundamental. Inspired by recent work in the interdisciplinary field of law and literature, Ioannis Ziogas argues that the Roman elegiac poets point to love as the site of law's emergence.

The Latin elegiac poets may say 'make love, not law', but in order to make love, they have to make law. Drawing on Agamben, Foucault, and Butler, Law and Love in Ovid explores the juridico-discursive nature of Ovid's love poetry, constructions of sovereignty, imperialism, authority, biopolitics, and the ways in which poetic diction has the force of law. The book is methodologically ambitious, combining legal theory with historically informed closed readings of numerous primary sources.

Ziogas aims to restore Ovid to his rightful position in the history of legal humanism. The Roman poet draws on a long tradition that goes back to Hesiod and Solon, in which poetic justice is pitted against corrupt rulers. Ovid's amatory jurisprudence is examined vis-à-vis Paul's letter to the Romans. The juridical nature of Ovid's poetry lies at the heart of his reception in the Middle Ages, from Boccaccio's Decameron to Forcadel's Cupido iurisperitus. The current trend to simultaneously study and marginalize legal discourse in Ovid is a modern construction that Law and Love in Ovid aims to demolish.

Ioannis Ziogas, Associate Professor, Durham University

1: Introduction: Eros and Nomos
PART I THE TRIALS OF LOVE
2: Love as a State of Exception
3: The Courtroom in the Bedroom
4: The Letter of the Law
PART II LEX AMATORIA
5: Poets and Lawmakers
6: Sexperts and Legal Experts
PART III THE LAW OF THE FATHER
7: Authors of Law and Life
8: Love and Incest
Epilogue
Bibliography

Erscheinungsdatum
Reihe/Serie Classics in Theory Series
Verlagsort Oxford
Sprache englisch
Maße 142 x 223 mm
Gewicht 538 g
Themenwelt Geschichte Allgemeine Geschichte Vor- und Frühgeschichte
Geschichte Allgemeine Geschichte Altertum / Antike
Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Anglistik / Amerikanistik
Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft
Naturwissenschaften Biologie Humanbiologie
ISBN-10 0-19-884514-6 / 0198845146
ISBN-13 978-0-19-884514-0 / 9780198845140
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