2 See my Augustan Culture. An Interpretive Introduction (Princeton 1996).
3 The Power of Images in the Age of Augustus (Ann Arbor 1987).
4 Cf., with some further perspectives, S. Goldberg, Epic in Republican Rome (New York and Oxford 1995).
[5] See, despite a one-sided interpretation of the phenomenon, M. Glatt, Die "andere Welt" der römischen Elegiker (Frankfurt 1991).
6 Cf. the good remarks of A. Schiesaro in CP 88 (1993) 265.