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Author: Sextus Propertius
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2004-06-06
Total Pages: 524
ISBN-13: 9780691115825
DOWNLOAD EBOOKVincent 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.
Author: Sextus Propertius
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 2002-06-03
Total Pages: 315
ISBN-13: 0520935845
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThese 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.
Author: Propertius
Publisher: Bristol Classical Press
Published: 1985
Total Pages: 200
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKEdited with Introduction and Notes by W. A. Camps
Author: Sextus Propertius
Publisher:
Published: 1999
Total Pages: 244
ISBN-13: 9780192835734
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOf 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.
Author: Propertius
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2016-07-07
Total Pages: 520
ISBN-13: 1400884136
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Roman poet Propertius is best known as the writer who perfected the Latin love elegy, a technical as much as a psychological and cultural feat. Propertius has been admired for both his metrical genius and the modernity of his narrative flow. Many of the poems here pay tribute to Cynthia, Propertius's romantic obsession, but the scope of these 107 elegies is broad. Propertius's poetry offers a fascinating look into life in the Augustan age, addressing social, political, and historical subjects. A contemporary of Virgil and Horace, Propertius has influenced scores of poets--from Ovid to Housman to Pound. His poetry appears here for the first time in a dual-language edition with the translations facing the original Latin. Rendered into English by a poet who is also one of the nation's pre-eminent Propertius experts, the volume brings Propertius's difficult mix of vernacular and high literary allusion into contemporary language. Cynthia was the first. She caught me with her eyes, a fool who had never before been touched by desires. Love cast down my look of constant pride, and he pressed on my head with his feet, until he taught me to despise chaste girls, perversely, and to live without plan. Already, it's been a whole year that the frenzy hasn't stopped, when, for all that, the gods are against me. ?
Author: S. J. Heyworth
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Published: 2007-11-23
Total Pages: 666
ISBN-13: 0191527920
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPropertius 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.
Author: Sextus Propertius
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
Published: 2006
Total Pages: 510
ISBN-13: 9780806134680
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Latin poet Propertius (ca. 50–16 B.C.) is considered by many to be the greatest elegiac poet of Rome. Long neglected because of the obscurity of his thought and the vagaries of his syntax, Propertius has now emerged as a writer of compelling originality and intellectual power. In this authoritative edition of Propertius’s elegies, L. Richardson, jr, makes these challenging poems both intelligible and accessible. For students of literature and history alike, Propertius offers insights into the intellectual world of Augustan Rome and Roman society. His perplexities and frustrations, his struggles with himself and with his domineering and capricious mistress Cynthia, and his exhilarations and depressions all strike a surprisingly familiar chord for the modern reader. Through an in-depth introduction and explanatory notes, Richardson strives to make the poems as readable as possible, at the same time examining the complexities and textual difficulties of the texts. Each elegy is accompanied by an introductory note providing a literary interpretation of the poem, followed by full and detailed commentary.
Author: Propertius
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2006-08-31
Total Pages: 4
ISBN-13: 0521819571
DOWNLOAD EBOOKUp-to-date commentary, with introduction and new text, on this important work of Latin poetry.
Author: Francis Cairns
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2006-08-31
Total Pages: 445
ISBN-13: 0521864577
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA study of Propertius' four books of elegies investigating their sources and motives.
Author: Sextus Propertius
Publisher:
Published: 1912
Total Pages: 0
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