TY - BOOK AU - Keith,A.M. TI - Propertius: Poet of Love and Leisure T2 - Classical Literature and Society Series SN - 9781849667678 AV - PA6646.K45 2011eb U1 - 871.01 PY - 2008/// CY - London PB - Bloomsbury Publishing Plc KW - Propertius, Sextus -- Criticism and interpretation KW - Elegiac poetry, Latin -- History and criticism KW - Literature and society -- Rome KW - Electronic books N1 - 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 N2 - 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 UR - https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/orpp/detail.action?docID=1749883 ER -