Preview   In Roman Love Elegy and the Eros of Empire, Phebe Lowell Bowditch explores the complex and contradictory rhetoric of Roman identity construction in Latin elegy through a postcolonial lens. Bowditch reads elegy “against the grain” (p. 209), and successfully shows that Latin elegy’s superficial rejection of hegemonic Roman discourses of elitist masculinity, urbanism, militarism, … Continue reading Roman love elegy and the eros of empire