Elegies

Elegies

by Propertius
ISBN-10:
067499020X
ISBN-13:
9780674990203
Pub. Date:
01/01/1990
Publisher:
Harvard University Press
ISBN-10:
067499020X
ISBN-13:
9780674990203
Pub. Date:
01/01/1990
Publisher:
Harvard University Press
Elegies

Elegies

by Propertius

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Overview

Learned love poems from the early Augustan age.

The passionate and dramatic elegies of Propertius gained him a reputation as one of Rome’s finest love poets. Here he portrays the exciting, uneven course of his love affair with Cynthia and tells us much about his contemporaries and the society in which he lives, while in later poems he turns to mythological themes and the legends of early Rome.

Born in Assisi about 50 BC, Propertius moved as a young man to Rome, where he came into contact with a coterie of poets, including Virgil, Tibullus, Horace, and Ovid. Publication of his first book brought immediate recognition and the unwavering support of Maecenas, the influential patron of the Augustan poets. He died perhaps in his mid-thirties, leaving us four books of elegies that have attracted admirers throughout the ages.

In this new edition of Propertius, G. P. Goold solves some longstanding questions of interpretation and gives us a faithful and stylish prose translation. His explanatory notes and glossary-index offer steady guidance and a wealth of information.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780674990203
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Publication date: 01/01/1990
Series: Loeb Classical Library , #18
Edition description: Revised Edition
Pages: 464
Sales rank: 829,440
Product dimensions: 4.25(w) x 6.38(h) x 1.00(d)
Language: Latin

About the Author

G. P. Goold was William Lampson Professor of Latin Language and Literature at Yale University, and General Editor of the Loeb Classical Library (1974–1999).

Table of Contents

Preface

Note to Revised Edition

Introduction

About the Poet. Propertius and Roman Elegy.

The Manuscripts. The Division into Books.

Problems of the Text. Editorial Principles

Select Bibliography

The Elegies of Sextus Propertius

Book One

Book Two

Book Three

Book Four

Index

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