Teaching the death of elegy. The Lygdamus elegies ([Tib.] 3.1-6)
A compact textual unit of six elegiac poems opening the third book of the Corpus Tibullianum ([Tib.] 3.1-6), the Lygdamean cycle recounts the end of a love romance, the discidium of the young lover poet Lygdamus with his elegiac mistress, Neaera.