LATIN POETS AND THEIR FEMININE IMAGES
LATIN POETS AND THEIR FEMININE IMAGES

Summary/Abstract: The status of Roman women as characters in the works of Latin poets is different from the political and legal one existing in the Roman society male dominated, because they inspire unique lasting loves, sufferings that strongly mark the life of the authors, becoming equal or even dominant in their relationships. The poems abound in metaphors that express the dominance of the beloved woman, the slavery of love, the miraculous power of love that causes the authors to have an unusual behavior for their social position, similar to slavery, behaviour that they sometimes complain about, thus becoming protagonists of their own work. The same as virtus expresses the Roman male identity through courage and values proven in battle, militia amoris expresses love in the works of Latin elegiac poets as a battlefield where the lover fights, triumphs or is defeated.

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