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The Poems (Paperback)
Propertius; Translated by Guy Lee; Introduction by Oliver Lyne
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Of all the great classical love poets, Propertius (c. 50-10 BC) is
surely one of those with most immediate appeal for readers today.
His helpless infatuation for the sinister figure of his mistress
Cynthia forms the main subject of his poetry and is analyzed with a
tormented but witty grandeur in all its changing moods, from
ecstasy to suicidal despair.
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bibliographies for further study, and much more.
The Roman poet Propertius is best known as the writer who
perfected the Latin love elegy, a technical as much as a
psychological and cultural feat. Propertius has been admired for
both his metrical genius and the modernity of his narrative
flow.
Many of the poems here pay tribute to Cynthia, Propertius's
romantic obsession, but the scope of these 107 elegies is broad.
Propertius's poetry offers a fascinating look into life in the
Augustan age, addressing social, political, and historical
subjects. A contemporary of Virgil and Horace, Propertius has
influenced scores of poets--from Ovid to Housman to Pound.
His poetry appears here for the first time in a dual-language
edition with the translations facing the original Latin. Rendered
into English by a poet who is also one of the nation's pre-eminent
Propertius experts, the volume brings Propertius's difficult mix of
vernacular and high literary allusion into contemporary
language.
"Cynthia was the first. She caught me with her eyes, a
fool
who had never before been touched by desires.
Love cast down my look of constant pride,
and he pressed on my head with his feet,
until he taught me to despise chaste girls,
perversely, and to live without plan.
Already, it's been a whole year that the frenzy hasn't
stopped,
when, for all that, the gods are against me."
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Elegies (Hardcover)
Propertius; Edited by G.P. Goold
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R802
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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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Elegies (Hardcover)
John Swinnerton Phillimore, Sextus Propertius
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Elegies (Hardcover)
Sextus Propertius, Peter John Francis Gantillon
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Elegies (Paperback)
Sextus Propertius, Peter John Francis Gantillon
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R590
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Elegies (Paperback)
John Swinnerton Phillimore, Sextus Propertius
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R539
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Die Bibliotheca Teubneriana, gegrundet 1849, ist die weltweit
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(University of Cambridge) Donald J. Mastronarde (University of
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In this collection, 26 stories chronicle deep metamorphosis, where
by a lesson, a journey, discoveries, the confluence of ideas, an
accident or some other more esoteric circumstances, we become more
attuned to the connections - and distances - between the inner and
outer worlds than perhaps we were at the beginning. We grow wings,
take flight, and start all over again.
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