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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