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Opera / Gaius Valerius Catullus ; Albius Tibullus ; Sextus Propertius
No full textGaius Valerius Catullus ; Albius Tibullus ; Sextus Propertiu
Propertius I /
No full text"What was it like to be in love in Rome? The 22 poems of Sextus Propertius' first book of elegies (published in 28 B.C.) offer an answer. Defiantly un-Roman in his devotion to his love for his Cynthia and to his art, Propertius writes with a strangely modern voice - passionate, wry, self-scrutinising and ironic. But it is a voice that has been shaped and controlled by a literary tradition already centuries old. This revised edition of Book I provides, in a verse translation which attempts to simulate the discipline and constraints of the hexameter/pentameter alternation in the elegiac couplets of the original poems, a handily self-contained Augustan poetry book - the earliest extant book of Latin love-elegy- to a readership without Latin. The Introduction and Commentary furnish the reader with explanations of the literary, mythological, historical and geographical allusions necessary for an understanding of the poems."--Jacket.Includes bibliographical references (pages ix-xvi) and indexes."What was it like to be in love in Rome? The 22 poems of Sextus Propertius' first book of elegies (published in 28 B.C.) offer an answer. Defiantly un-Roman in his devotion to his love for his Cynthia and to his art, Propertius writes with a strangely modern voice - passionate, wry, self-scrutinising and ironic. But it is a voice that has been shaped and controlled by a literary tradition already centuries old. This revised edition of Book I provides, in a verse translation which attempts to simulate the discipline and constraints of the hexameter/pentameter alternation in the elegiac couplets of the original poems, a handily self-contained Augustan poetry book - the earliest extant book of Latin love-elegy- to a readership without Latin. The Introduction and Commentary furnish the reader with explanations of the literary, mythological, historical and geographical allusions necessary for an understanding of the poems."--Jacket
Francis CAIRNS, Sextus Propertius. The Augustan Elegist
No full textTordeur Pol. Francis CAIRNS, Sextus Propertius. The Augustan Elegist. In: L'antiquité classique, Tome 76, 2007. pp. 328-329
Sextus Propertius the Augustan elegist
No full textIn 30-15 BC, Sextus Propertius composed at Rome four books of elegies which range from erotic to learned to political, and exhibit an unparalleled richness of themes, concepts and language. This book investigates their sources and motives, examining Propertius' family background in Umbrian Asisium and tracing his career as he sought through poetry to restore his family's fortunes after the Civil Wars. Propertius' progress within the Roman poetic establishment depended on his patrons--Tullus, 'Gallus', Maecenas and Augustus. Initially his poetry was influenced radically by his elegiac predecessor C. Cornelius Gallus, arguably also the 'Gallus' who jointly patronized Propertius' first book. New heuristic techniques help to recover the impact on Propertius of Cornelius Gallus' (mainly lost) elegies. Propertius' subsequent move into Maecenas', and then Augustus', patronage had an equally powerful, ideological, impact; in his latter books he became (alongside Virgil and Horace) a major and committed Augustan voice.--Book jacket
Liebeselegien lateinisch-deutsch = Carmina
No full textSets of Elegiae by 2 authors: Tibullus (Tibull) and Sextus Propertius (Properz), new ed. translated by Georg Luck
The politics of desire: Propertius IV
No full textPropertius (ca. 54 b.c.--ca. 2 b.c.) was a Roman poet who composed four compelling books of elegies in the chaotic years surrounding Rome's transition from republic to empire. The first three of these books revolve mostly around a tormented love affair with a woman called Cynthia. The fourth book of poetry rests on more diverse subject matter and is notoriously the most opaque and elusive. In The Politics of Desire, Micaela Janan radically reassesses Propertius' last elegies, using contemporary psychoanalytic theory to illuminate these challenging texts. Janan finds that the upheaval of Rome's transformation to empire corresponds to the intellectually unsettled conditions of our own time, so that contemporary methodologies offer an uncannily suitable approach for understanding Propertius. In particular, she uses the work of Jacques Lacan, since it provides the best conceptual tools for examining the relation between political crisis and the struggles of the self, a theme that resonates in these difficult elegies. This book expands our understanding of an important Roman poet, and its innovative and sophisticated methodological approach makes a substantial contribution to feminist and psychoanalytic criticism. In addition, Janan addresses elegy's relationship to larger cultural questions, and broadens our understanding of the social crisis affecting Rome during the early empire
Catullus Tibullus Propertius Cum Galli Fragmentis Et Pervigilio Veneris : Præmittitur Notitia Literaria Studiis Societatis Bipontinæ
No full textDie Vorlage enthält insgesamt 6 WerkePaginierfehler: springt von S. 354 auf 455Catullus Tibullus Propertius Cum Corn. Galli FragmentisVorlageform des Erscheinungsvermerks: Biponti Ex Typographia Societatis MDCCLXXXIIITitelvign. (Portr., Kupferst.
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