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Constructions of "the feminine" as passive and "the masculine" as active spread deep roots throughout antiquity, from ancient Greek gynecological theory and Aristotle's characteristic depreciation of women to Catullus' strategies of abuse and the works of the Roman love elegists. Only the most prescient of the Gutenberg elegists could have foreseen how rapidly we have moved to a point where words printed between hard or soft covers are rivaled by words scrolling down screens. Among the Roman elegists, Propertius expressly compares his work as a lyric poet to that of epic poets, valuing the "mollia serta" (tender garlands) of elegiac verse (3. |
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