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The most passionate, individual, and controversial of the Latin
love elegists, Propertius in Book 3 covers a broad range of subject
matter and a vast geographical reach. After books focused on his
mistress Cynthia, he maintains his elegiac role but expands his
range to provide a lover's commentary on life, discussing luxury,
nudity, art, the empire, and the dangers of travel for profit and
war. This detailed commentary uses the text recently published in
the Oxford Classical Texts series, and sets out to build on the
richness of the material in the book by providing clear
introductions to the genres the poems explore - the Greek elegy of
Callimachus, epic, tragedy, hymn and epigram - and to topics such
as patronage, philosophy, and the images of love as slavery and as
warfare.
Propertius is a poet of the Augustan period, a successor of the
great Hellenistic elegiac poets Callimachus and Philitas, and a
precursor of Ovid. His account of his fictionalized affair with his
beloved alter ego Cynthia is the purest expression of the spirit of
love elegy, setting them as a pair against war, epic, and
(apparently) Augustus himself. This is an author read by virtually
all students of Classical Latin. Cynthia provides a lucid attempt
to understand and correct the many difficulties in the transmitted
text. It consists of a commentary on the whole corpus, together
with a prose translation (including alternative versions of
ambiguous phrasing). In its clear exposition of technical problems,
the book will serve as an introduction to Latin textual criticism
in the modern age, and to elegiac poetic style.
Propertius is a poet of the Augustan period, a successor of the
great Hellenistic elegiac poets Callimachus and Philitas, and a
precursor of Ovid. His account of his fictionalized affair with his
beloved alter ego Cynthia is the purest expression of the spirit of
love elegy, setting them as a pair against war, epic, and
(apparently) Augustus himself. This is an author read by virtually
all students of Classical Latin. Cynthia provides a lucid attempt
to understand and correct the many difficulties in the transmitted
text. It consists of a commentary on the whole corpus, together
with a prose translation (including alternative versions of
ambiguous phrasing). In its clear exposition of technical problems,
the book will serve as an introduction to Latin textual criticism
in the modern age, and to elegiac poetic style.
Ovid is now firmly established as a central figure in the Latin
poetic canon, and his Fasti is his most complex elegy. Drafted
alongside the Metamorphoses before the poet's exile, it was only
published after the death of Augustus, and involves a wide range of
myth, Roman history, religion, astronomy and explication of the
calendar. In its aetiology and conversations with gods, it is a
Latin equivalent of Callimachus' Aetia. This invaluable new
commentary on a central book of the poem explores Ovid's playful
inversion of genre, his witty but challenging style of Latin, his
use of the elegiac couplet, intertextuality and much more. With a
comprehensive introduction providing key background for students
and instructors, this guide to Book 3, the first in English for
nearly a century, makes use of the latest scholarly research to
illuminate Ovid's wide-ranging and amusing account of Roman life.
The Aeneid, generally considered the greatest poem of Roman
literature, is a story of migration, and Book 3 is at the heart of
this story-the arrestingly dramatic account that Aeneas gives to
the Carthaginian Queen Dido of his people's journey from the sacked
city of Troy. This journey sees them encounter a series of
brilliantly characterized individuals and visit some of the most
extraordinary places in the central Mediterranean, both real and
imaginary: shrines and volcanoes, floating islands and monsters.
Yet though it is on one level a thrilling traveller's tale, it is
also a profound story of a voyage from a dead past to an uncertain,
but ultimately glorious, future in Augustan Rome. This new edition
contains an introduction, the Latin text, and a detailed
commentary, as well as an extensive Appendix illustrating the rich
variety of texts that Vergil used as his models through an ample
collection of relevant passages: from the heroic voyages described
in the Odyssey and the Argonautica, to tragic explorations of the
aftermath of Troy's fall (especially Euripides' Hecuba, Troades,
and Andromache) and texts on Delos and Etna. The introduction
grounds the book in its historical and literary contexts, while the
commentary itself aims to bring out the poet's artistry and
learning, keeping the dramatic situation of Aeneas' story-telling
in view throughout. Translations of all cited Latin and Greek and
regular references to Roman history will provide readers new and
old with a clear understanding not only of the original text, but
also of the poet's vision of Rome, history, and humanity.
The most passionate, individual, and controversial of the Latin
love elegists, Propertius in Book 3 covers a broad range of subject
matter and a vast geographical reach. After books focused on his
mistress Cynthia, he maintains his elegiac role but expands his
range to provide a lover's commentary on life, discussing luxury,
nudity, art, the empire, and the dangers of travel for profit and
war. This detailed commentary uses the text recently published in
the Oxford Classical Texts series, and sets out to build on the
richness of the material in the book by providing clear
introductions to the genres the poems explore - the Greek elegy of
Callimachus, epic, tragedy, hymn and epigram - and to topics such
as patronage, philosophy, and the images of love as slavery and as
warfare.
Classical Constructions is a collection of ground-breaking and
scholarly papers on Latin literature by a number of distinguished
Classicists, produced in memory of Don Fowler, who died in 1999 at
the age of 46. The authors were all inspired by the desire to
commemorate a beloved colleague and friend and have produced papers
of great freshness and insight. The essays, including that by Don
Fowler himself, are much concerned with the reception of the
classical world, extending into the realms of modern philosophy,
art history, and cultural studies. There are fundamental studies of
Horace's style and Ovid's exile. The volume is unusual in the
informality of the style of a number of pieces, and the openness
with which the contributors have reminisced about the honorand and
reflected on his early death.
Ovid is now firmly established as a central figure in the Latin
poetic canon, and his Fasti is his most complex elegy. Drafted
alongside the Metamorphoses before the poet's exile, it was only
published after the death of Augustus, and involves a wide range of
myth, Roman history, religion, astronomy and explication of the
calendar. In its aetiology and conversations with gods, it is a
Latin equivalent of Callimachus' Aetia. This invaluable new
commentary on a central book of the poem explores Ovid's playful
inversion of genre, his witty but challenging style of Latin, his
use of the elegiac couplet, intertextuality and much more. With a
comprehensive introduction providing key background for students
and instructors, this guide to Book 3, the first in English for
nearly a century, makes use of the latest scholarly research to
illuminate Ovid's wide-ranging and amusing account of Roman life.
Propertius is a poet of the Augustan period, a successor of the
great Hellenistic elegiac poets Callimachus and Philitas, and a
precursor of Ovid. His account of his fictionalized affair with his
beloved alter ego Cynthia is the purest expression of the spirit of
love elegy, setting them as a pair against war, epic and
(apparently) Augustus himself. The treatment of their love is
tender and at times delightfully macabre, in pursuing their love
beyond the grave. This is a text read by virtually all students of
Classical Latin, and it is now available in a radical new edition,
more readable and based on the latest research into the manuscript
tradition. This is fully explained in the English preface, which
also contains important comments on the way texts are edited and
read. Some significant emendations discovered in the papers of A.
E. Housman are published here for the first time.
The Aeneid, generally considered the greatest poem of Roman
literature, is a story of migration, and Book 3 is at the heart of
this story-the arrestingly dramatic account that Aeneas gives to
the Carthaginian Queen Dido of his people's journey from the sacked
city of Troy. This journey sees them encounter a series of
brilliantly characterized individuals and visit some of the most
extraordinary places in the central Mediterranean, both real and
imaginary: shrines and volcanoes, floating islands and monsters.
Yet though it is on one level a thrilling traveller's tale, it is
also a profound story of a voyage from a dead past to an uncertain,
but ultimately glorious, future in Augustan Rome. This new edition
contains an introduction, the Latin text, and a detailed
commentary, as well as an extensive Appendix illustrating the rich
variety of texts that Vergil used as his models through an ample
collection of relevant passages: from the heroic voyages described
in the Odyssey and the Argonautica, to tragic explorations of the
aftermath of Troy's fall (especially Euripides' Hecuba, Troades,
and Andromache) and texts on Delos and Etna. The introduction
grounds the book in its historical and literary contexts, while the
commentary itself aims to bring out the poet's artistry and
learning, keeping the dramatic situation of Aeneas' story-telling
in view throughout. Translations of all cited Latin and Greek and
regular references to Roman history will provide readers new and
old with a clear understanding not only of the original text, but
also of the poet's vision of Rome, history, and humanity.
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