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OverviewIn 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. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Ioannis Ziogas (Associate Professor, Associate Professor, Durham University)Publisher: Oxford University Press Imprint: Oxford University Press Dimensions: Width: 14.20cm , Height: 2.70cm , Length: 22.30cm Weight: 0.538kg ISBN: 9780198845140ISBN 10: 0198845146 Pages: 436 Publication Date: 28 January 2021 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: To order  Stock availability from the supplier is unknown. We will order it for you and ship this item to you once it is received by us. Table of Contents1: 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 BibliographyReviewsZiogas's argument is brave and original. * Maksymilian Del Mar, The Cambridge Law Journal * Ziogas' arguments ... present a strongly persuasive case * Jo-Marie Claassen, Professor Emeritus, Stellenbosch Univeristy, The Classical Journal * Ziogas' arguments ... present a strongly persuasive case * Jo-Marie Claassen, Professor Emeritus, Stellenbosch Univeristy, The Classical Journal * Author InformationIoannis Ziogas, Associate Professor, Durham University Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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