Lindheim's clear, nuanced argumentation and thoughtful explanations of deeply theoretical material are sure to make her book essential reading for scholars and advanced students of elegy.
Sara H. Lindheim is Associate Professor of Classics at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She is the author of Mail and Female: Epistolary Narrative and Desire in Ovid's Heroides (University of Wisconsin Press, 2003), and co-editor, with Helen Morales, of New Essays on Homer: Language, Violence, Agency (Ramus 44.1 and 2, 2015).