Propertius, Sextus

Dream, fantasy, and visual art in Roman elegy

by Scioli, Emma

fromWisconsin studies in classics

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The elegists, ancient Rome{u0092}s most introspective poets, filled their works with vivid, first-person accounts of dreams. Dream, Fantasy, and Visual Art in Roman Elegy examines these varied and visually striking textual dreamscapes, arguing that the poets exploited dynamics o…

The manuscript tradition of Propertius

by Butrica, J. L.

fromPhoenix

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The elegist Sextus Propertius (ca 50-ca 16 BC) is generally reckoned among the most difficult of Latin authors. This study, the fullest survey of the manuscripts so far, considers the affiliation of more than 140 complete or partial witnesses and offers a thorough reassessment o…

The complete elegies of Sextus Propertius

by Katz, Vincent, Properce

fromLockert library of poetry in translation

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Vincent 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 poeti…

The Complete Elegies of Sextus Propertius

by Propertius, Katz, Vincent

fromLockert library of poetry in translation

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The 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 tribut…

The complete elegies of Sextus Propertius

by Katz, Vincent, Propertius, Sextus

fromLockert library of poetry in translation

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Vincent 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 poeti…

The complete elegies of Sextus Propertius

by Propertius, Sextus, Katz, Vincent

fromLockert library of poetry in translation

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Vincent 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 poeti…

Learned girls and male persuasion: gender and reading in Roman love elegy

by James, Sharon L

fromJoan Palevsky imprint in classical literature

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This study transforms our understanding of Roman love elegy, an important and complex corpus of poetry that flourished in the late first century b.c.e. Sharon L. James reads key poems by Propertius, Tibullus, and Ovid for the first time from the perspective of the woman to whom …

Augustan poetry and the Roman Republic

by Nelis, Damien, Farrell, Joseph

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'Augustan Poetry and the Roman Republic' focuses on the works of the major Augustan poets, Vergil, Horace, Propertius, and Ovid and explores the under-studied aspect of their poetry, namely the way in which they constructed and investigated images of the Roman Republic and the R…

Augustan poetry and the Roman Republic

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'Augustan Poetry and the Roman Republic' focuses on the works of the major Augustan poets, Vergil, Horace, Propertius, and Ovid and explores the under-studied aspect of their poetry, namely the way in which they constructed and investigated images of the Roman Republic and the R…