Propertius : Poet of Love and Leisure.
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- text
- computer
- online resource
- 9781849667678
- 871.01
- PA6646.K45 2011eb
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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