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Propertius : Poet of Love and Leisure.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Classical Literature and Society SeriesPublisher: London : Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2008Copyright date: ©2008Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (225 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781849667678
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: PropertiusDDC classification:
  • 871.01
LOC classification:
  • PA6646.K45 2011eb
Online resources:
Contents:
Cover -- Contents -- Editor's Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Qualis et unde genus? Sextus Propertius, His Friends and Relations -- 2. Insano uerba tonare Foro: Propertian Elegy and Roman Rhetoric -- 3. Callimachus Romanus: Propertius' Elegiac Poetics -- 4. Cynthia rara: Propertius and the Elegiac Traffic in Women -- 5. Hos inter si me ponere Fama uolet: Between Men -- 6. Nequitiae caput: Propertian Elegy and Imperial Leisure -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index Locorum -- A -- C -- D -- E -- G -- H -- I -- M -- O -- P -- Q -- S -- T -- V -- General Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V.
Summary: Explores Propertius' elegiac poetry in the context of early imperial Roman society. Examining a variety of themes associated with both Propertian poetics and the poet's social context within the early Augustan principate, this work offers an overview of Propertius' achievement in his four books of elegies.
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Cover -- Contents -- Editor's Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Qualis et unde genus? Sextus Propertius, His Friends and Relations -- 2. Insano uerba tonare Foro: Propertian Elegy and Roman Rhetoric -- 3. Callimachus Romanus: Propertius' Elegiac Poetics -- 4. Cynthia rara: Propertius and the Elegiac Traffic in Women -- 5. Hos inter si me ponere Fama uolet: Between Men -- 6. Nequitiae caput: Propertian Elegy and Imperial Leisure -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index Locorum -- A -- C -- D -- E -- G -- H -- I -- M -- O -- P -- Q -- S -- T -- V -- General Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V.

Explores Propertius' elegiac poetry in the context of early imperial Roman society. Examining a variety of themes associated with both Propertian poetics and the poet's social context within the early Augustan principate, this work offers an overview of Propertius' achievement in his four books of elegies.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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