Propertius: Poet of Love and Leisure
In "Propertius: Poet of Love and Leisure", Alison Keith explores Propertius' elegiac poetry in the context of early imperial Roman society. Examining a variety of themes associated with both Propertian poetics (such genre theory, poetic models, the girlfriend, the rival) and the poet's social context within the early Augustan principate (such as Roman imperialism, the elite male cursus honorum, Augustus' building projects) she offers a synthetic overview of Propertius' achievement in his four books of elegies. She considers the neglected relationship of rhetoric to Propertian elegiac poetics, as well as Propertius' debt to the classical literary tradition, and she explores themes in the corpus that reflect the Augustan imperial context in which Propertius lived and wrote.Arguing for neither a pro- nor an anti-Augustanism on display in Propertian elegy, Keith brings to light the multiple ways in which Roman imperial rule, the new pax Augusta, and new forms of elite Roman political competition intersect in and inform Propertius' poetry.The volume aims to contribute to our understanding of both Latin literature and Augustan culture its sustained exploration of refractions of the Roman 'imperialist enterprise' in Propertius' elegiac poetry.

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Propertius: Poet of Love and Leisure
In "Propertius: Poet of Love and Leisure", Alison Keith explores Propertius' elegiac poetry in the context of early imperial Roman society. Examining a variety of themes associated with both Propertian poetics (such genre theory, poetic models, the girlfriend, the rival) and the poet's social context within the early Augustan principate (such as Roman imperialism, the elite male cursus honorum, Augustus' building projects) she offers a synthetic overview of Propertius' achievement in his four books of elegies. She considers the neglected relationship of rhetoric to Propertian elegiac poetics, as well as Propertius' debt to the classical literary tradition, and she explores themes in the corpus that reflect the Augustan imperial context in which Propertius lived and wrote.Arguing for neither a pro- nor an anti-Augustanism on display in Propertian elegy, Keith brings to light the multiple ways in which Roman imperial rule, the new pax Augusta, and new forms of elite Roman political competition intersect in and inform Propertius' poetry.The volume aims to contribute to our understanding of both Latin literature and Augustan culture its sustained exploration of refractions of the Roman 'imperialist enterprise' in Propertius' elegiac poetry.

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Propertius: Poet of Love and Leisure

Propertius: Poet of Love and Leisure

by A.M. Keith
Propertius: Poet of Love and Leisure

Propertius: Poet of Love and Leisure

by A.M. Keith

Overview

In "Propertius: Poet of Love and Leisure", Alison Keith explores Propertius' elegiac poetry in the context of early imperial Roman society. Examining a variety of themes associated with both Propertian poetics (such genre theory, poetic models, the girlfriend, the rival) and the poet's social context within the early Augustan principate (such as Roman imperialism, the elite male cursus honorum, Augustus' building projects) she offers a synthetic overview of Propertius' achievement in his four books of elegies. She considers the neglected relationship of rhetoric to Propertian elegiac poetics, as well as Propertius' debt to the classical literary tradition, and she explores themes in the corpus that reflect the Augustan imperial context in which Propertius lived and wrote.Arguing for neither a pro- nor an anti-Augustanism on display in Propertian elegy, Keith brings to light the multiple ways in which Roman imperial rule, the new pax Augusta, and new forms of elite Roman political competition intersect in and inform Propertius' poetry.The volume aims to contribute to our understanding of both Latin literature and Augustan culture its sustained exploration of refractions of the Roman 'imperialist enterprise' in Propertius' elegiac poetry.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780715634530
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date: 11/10/2008
Series: Classical Literature and Society
Edition description: New Edition
Pages: 224
Product dimensions: 6.10(w) x 9.10(h) x 0.80(d)

About the Author

Alison Keith is Professor and Chair, Department of Classics, University of Toronto. She is the author of "The Play of Fictions: Studies in Ovid's Metamorphoses Book 2" (1992) and "Engendering Rome: Women in Latin Epic" in the Cambridge series 'Roman Literature and its Contexts' (2000), and has written extensively on the intersection of gender and genre in Latin literature.

Table of Contents

Editor's Foreword vii

Acknowledgments ix

1 Qualis et unde genus? Sextus Propertius, His Friends and Relations 1

2 Insano uerba tonare Foro: Propertian Elegy and Roman Rhetoric 19

3 Callimachus Romanus: Propertius' Elegiac Poetics 45

4 Cynthia rara: Propertius and the Elegiac Traffic in Women 86

5 Hos inter si me ponere Fama uolet: Between Men 115

6 Nequitiae caput: Propertian Elegy and Imperial Leisure 139

Notes 167

Bibliography 193

Index Locorum 207

General Index 212

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