The Roman confrontation and assimilation of Greek literature entailed a scrutiny, critique, and adaptation of generic assumptions. This book considers the ways in which major genres ¿ among them comedy, lyric, elegy, epic, and the novel ¿ were redefined to accommodate Roman concerns and the ways in which gender plays a role in generic definition and authorial self-definition. Both of these areas of research have been important to William S. Anderson throughout his career. This collection of essays by his students helps readers to understand the nature of Roman literary self-definition, as it honors Professor Anderson¿s own achievements in this field. The Roman confrontation and assimilation of Greek literature entailed a scrutiny, critique, and adaptation of generic assumptions. This book considers the ways in which major genres - among them comedy, lyric, elegy, epic, and the novel - were redefined to accommodate Roman concerns and the ways in which gender plays a role in generic definition and authorial self-definition. Both of these areas of research have been important to William S. Anderson throughout his career. This collection of essays by his students helps readers to understand the nature of Roman literary self-definition, as it honors Professor Anderson's own achievements in this field. Acknowledgments vii Abbreviations ix Introduction 1(12) William W. Batstone 13(34) Plautine Farce and Plautine Freedom: An Essay on the Value of Metatheatre Alan Zeitlin 47(14) Plutarch's Moralia 712C, Menander's Love Plots, and Terence's Eunuchus Richard Freis 61(18) Amor and Pietas:The Catullan Revolution and the Horatian Counter-Revolution Anthony Corbeill 79(18) The Topography of Fides in Propertius 1.16 Garth Tissol 97(16) Maimed Books and Maimed Authors: Tristia 1.7 and the Fate of the Metamorphoses Bracht Branham 113(26) The Poetics of Genre: Bakhtin, Menippus, Petronius W. Ralph Johnson 139(12) Small Wonders: The Poetics of Martial, Book Fourteen Carole Newlands 151(24) Animal Claquers: Statius Silv. 2.4 and 2.5 Gregson Davis 175(18) From Lyric to Elegy: The Inscription of the Elegiac Subject in Heroides 15 (Sappho to Phaon) Elizabeth Sutherland 193(18) Literary Women in Horace's Odes 2.11 and 2.12 Ellen Greene 211(28) Gender and Genre in Propertius 2.8 and 2.9 Leslie Cahoon 239(30) Haunted Husbands: Orpheus's Song (Ovid, Metamorphoses 10-11) in Light of Ted Hughes's Birthday Letters Sharon James 269(32) A Courtesan's Choreography: Female Liberty and Male Anxiety at the Roman Dinner Party Jo-Ann Shelton 301(30) Putting Women in Their Place: Gender, Species, and Hierarchy in Apuleius' Metamorphoses Works Cited 331(16) Publications of William S. Anderson 347(6) Contributors 353(4) Index Locorum 357(4) Index 361