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Tibullus - Robert J. Ball: Tibullus the Elegist. A Critical Survey. (Hypomnemata, 77.) Pp. 253. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1983. Paper, DM 59.

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Robert J. Ball: Tibullus the Elegist. A Critical Survey. (Hypomnemata, 77.) Pp. 253. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1983. Paper, DM 59.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 February 2009

F. Cairns
F. Cairns*
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University of Liverpool
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The Classical Review , Volume 37 , Issue 2 , October 1987 , pp. 180 - 182
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Copyright © The Classical Association 1987

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1 For a recent sharp and relevant attack on the ‘biographical fallacy’, cf. de Vries, J. G., Mnemosyne 36 (1983), 249 Google Scholar: ‘These tendencies’ 〈i.e. to treat literature as autobiography〉 ‘are objectionable when they appear in the explanation of individual passages or works; they become perverse, when dominating in a history of literature, which then (at best!) will degenerate into a series of biographies.’

2 It is perhaps even more worrying in a ‘critical survey’ to find the author advancing without citation of source an excellent interpretation by someone else: cf. p. 58 n. 20 ad fin., where the credit should have been given to Lee (1975) on Tib. 1.3.77.