Introspection and Engagement in Propertius: A Study Of Book 3 (Cambridge Classical Studies)
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- Synopsis
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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.
Argues for an interpretation of one complete collection of poetry on its own terms.
Explores the interaction between Propertius and the significant contemporary Augustan poets Horace and Virgil.
Examines the development of elegy as a genre.
- Copyright:
- 2018
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- Publisher Quality
- ISBN-13:
- 9781108266314
- Related ISBNs:
- 9781108417174, 9781108417174
- Publisher:
- Cambridge University Press
- Date of Addition:
- 06/15/18
- Copyrighted By:
- Faculty of Classics, University of Cambridge
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Has Image Descriptions:
- No
- Categories:
- Poetry, Literature and Fiction, Language Arts
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- This is a copyrighted book.