Chapter Six: DECONSTRUCTING THE VIR: LAW AND THE OTHER IN THE AMORES.

Chapter Six of the book "Subjecting Verses: Latin Love Elegy & the Emergence of the Real," by Paul Allen Miller is presented. It explores the literary works of Roman poet Ovid, and mentions that it depict an ambivalent nature and contains tight rhetorical constructions with frequent epigrammatic twists. It adds that his poetry is the product of an anomie in which the Roman republican past, integrated with its totalitarian structure, puts emphasis on public life that no longer plays a real part.