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F. DENGLER, NON SUM EGO QUI FUERAM: FUNKTIONEN DES ICH IN DER RÖMISCHEN ELEGIE (Philippika: Marburger Altertumskundliche Abhandlungen 108). Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2017. Pp. xii + 234. isbn 9783447107884. €58.00.
Focusing on the first-person speaker's representation as a unified as well as unifying and thus constitutive aspect of the text, this study will stimulate further discussion of an ‘old’ question that poses itself sooner or later to scholars of Propertius or Tibullus or both: How should one conceive of the persona that Propertius adopts in his fourth book of elegies? How many different speakers does Tibullus feature in his two-book collection?
The analysis is based on Karl Bühler's organon model (Sprachtheorie (1965)), a linguistic approach that differentiates the expressive, representative and conative (i.e. appealing) functions or roles of communication....