Propertius in Love
Propertius in Love

Author: Sextus Propertius

Publisher: Univ of California Press

Published: 2002-06-03

Total Pages: 315

ISBN-13: 0520935845

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These ardent, even obsessed, poems about erotic passion are among the brightest jewels in the crown of Latin literature. Written by Propertius, Rome's greatest poet of love, who was born around 50 b.c., a contemporary of Ovid, these elegies tell of Propertius' tormented relationship with a woman he calls "Cynthia." Their connection was sometimes blissful, more often agonizing, but as the poet came to recognize, it went beyond pride or shame to become the defining event of his life. Whether or not it was Propertius' explicit intention, these elegies extend our ideas of desire, and of the human condition itself.

Cynthia
Cynthia

Author: S. J. Heyworth

Publisher: OUP Oxford

Published: 2007-11-23

Total Pages: 666

ISBN-13: 0191527920

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Propertius is a poet of the Augustan period, a successor of the great Hellenistic elegiac poets Callimachus and Philitas, and a precursor of Ovid. His account of his fictionalized affair with his beloved alter ego Cynthia is the purest expression of the spirit of love elegy, setting them as a pair against war, epic, and (apparently) Augustus himself. This is an author read by virtually all students of Classical Latin. Cynthia provides a lucid attempt to understand and correct the many difficulties in the transmitted text. It consists of a commentary on the whole corpus, together with a prose translation (including alternative versions of ambiguous phrasing). In its clear exposition of technical problems, the book will serve as an introduction to Latin textual criticism in the modern age, and to elegiac poetic style.

The Poems
The Poems

Author: Sextus Propertius

Publisher:

Published: 1999

Total Pages: 244

ISBN-13: 9780192835734

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Of the Greek and Latin love poets, Propertius (c. 50-10 B.C.) is one of those who holds the most immediate appeal for the twentieth-century reader. His helpless infatuation for the sinister figure of his mistress Cynthia forms the main subject of his poetry, and is analyzed with a tormented but witty grandeur in all its changing moods--from ecstasy to suicidal despair. This study includes English verse translations of his work, along with a chronology, explanatory notes, and a brief bibliography.

The Complete Elegies of Sextus Propertius
The Complete Elegies of Sextus Propertius

Author: Sextus Propertius

Publisher: Princeton University Press

Published: 2004-06-06

Total Pages: 524

ISBN-13: 9780691115825

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Vincent Katz offers translations of all 107 known poems by the Augustan poet Sextus Propertius, a contemporary of Ovid. The translations keep as closely as possible to the original syntax, as Propertius' willful compressions & unusual tellings of myth are definitive of his poetics.

Golden Cynthia
Golden Cynthia

Author: Sharon L. James

Publisher: University of Michigan Press

Published: 2022-10-18

Total Pages: 223

ISBN-13: 0472220683

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The elegiac poet Propertius responds in his verse to the complex changes that Rome underwent in his period, taking on numerous topics including poetic and sexual rivalry, visual art, violence, inability to control the elusive mistress, imperialism, colonialism, civil war, the radical new shape of the Roman state under the new monarch Augustus, and more. These essays, by well-known scholars of Roman elegy, offer new ways of reading Propertius’ topics, attitudes, and poetics. This book begins with two distinguished essays by the late Barbara Flaschenriem, whose work on Propertius remains influential. The other contributions, offered in honor of her, are by Diane Rayor, Andrew Feldherr, Ellen Greene, Lowell Bowditch, Alison Keith, and volume editor Sharon L. James. These essays explore topics including Propertian didacticism, dream interpretation, visual art and formalism, sex and violence, Roman imperialism and its connection to the elegiac puella, and Propertius’ engagement, in Book 4, with Vergil’s poetry.

Introspection and Engagement in Propertius
Introspection and Engagement in Propertius

Author: Jonathan Wallis

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2018-04-12

Total Pages: 253

ISBN-13: 1108417175

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Explores how Propertius' third book re-invents Latin love-elegy for the reality of Rome's new imperial age.

The Politics of Desire
The Politics of Desire

Author: Micaela Janan

Publisher: Univ of California Press

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 259

ISBN-13: 0520223217

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Copa
Copa

Author: Charles Loomis Dana

Publisher:

Published: 1909

Total Pages: 60

ISBN-13:

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The Cambridge Companion to Latin Love Elegy
The Cambridge Companion to Latin Love Elegy

Author: Thea S. Thorsen

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2013-11-21

Total Pages: 455

ISBN-13: 1107511747

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Latin love elegy is one of the most important poetic genres in the Augustan era, also known as the golden age of Roman literature. This volume brings together leading scholars from Australia, Europe and North America to present and explore the Greek and Roman backdrop for Latin love elegy, the individual Latin love elegists (both the canonical and the non-canonical), their poems and influence on writers in later times. The book is designed as an accessible introduction for the general reader interested in Latin love elegy and the history of love and lament in Western literature, as well as a collection of critically stimulating essays for students and scholars of Latin poetry and of the classical tradition.

Propertius: Love and War
Propertius: Love and War

Author: Hans-Peter Stahl

Publisher: University of California Press

Published: 2021-05-28

Total Pages: 430

ISBN-13: 0520362977

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This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1985.