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. 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.
Born in Assisi about 50 BCE, Sextus 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.
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