Introspection and Engagement in Propertius : A Study of Book 3 Hardback
by Jonathan (University of Tasmania) Wallis
Part of the Cambridge Classical Studies series
Hardback
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Propertius re-invents Latin love-elegy in his third collection.
Nearly a decade into the Augustan principate, the early counter-cultural impulse of Propertius' first collections was losing its relevance.
Challenged by the publication of Horace's Odes, and by the imminent arrival of Virgil's Aeneid, in 23 BCE Propertius produced a radical collection of elegy which critically interrogates elegy's own origins as a genre, and which directly faces off Horatian lyric and Virgilian epic, as part of an ambitious claim to Augustan pre-eminence.
But this is no moment of cultural submission. In Book 3, elegy's key themes of love, fidelity, and political independence are rebuilt from the beginning as part of a subtle critique of emerging Augustan mores.
This book presents a series of readings of fourteen individual elegies from Propertius Book 3, including nostalgic love poems, an elegiac hymn to Bacchus, and a lament for Marcellus, the recently-dead nephew of Augustus.
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- Publication Date:12/04/2018
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:248 pages, Worked examples or Exercises
- Publisher:Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:12/04/2018
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- ISBN:9781108417174
