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Sextus Propertius - The Augustan Elegist (Hardcover) Loot Price: R3,605
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Sextus Propertius - The Augustan Elegist (Hardcover): Francis Cairns

Sextus Propertius - The Augustan Elegist (Hardcover)

Francis Cairns

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In 30-15 BC Sextus Propertius composed at Rome four books of elegies which range from erotic to learned to political and exhibit an unparalleled richness of themes, concepts and language. This book investigates their sources and motives, examining Propertius' family background in Umbrian Asisium and tracing his career as he sought through poetry to restore his family's fortunes after the Civil Wars. Propertius' progress within the Roman poetic establishment depended on his patrons - Tullus, 'Gallus', Maecenas and Augustus. Initially his poetry was influenced radically by his elegiac predecessor C. Cornelius Gallus, arguably also the 'Gallus' who jointly patronised Propertius' first book. New heuristic techniques help to recover the impact on Propertius of Cornelius Gallus' (mainly lost) elegies. Propertius' subsequent move into Maecenas', and then Augustus', patronage had an equally powerful, ideological, impact; in his latter books he became (alongside Virgil and Horace) a major and committed Augustan voice.

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Imprint: Cambridge UniversityPress
Country of origin: United Kingdom
Release date: August 2006
First published: 2006
Authors: Francis Cairns
Dimensions: 229 x 152 x 32mm (L x W x T)
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 510
ISBN-13: 978-0-521-86457-2
Categories: Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > Classical, early & medieval
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LSN: 0-521-86457-7
Barcode: 9780521864572

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