Propertius re-invents Latin love-elegy in his third collection. Nearly a decade into the Augustan principate, the early counter-cultural impulse of Propertius' first collections was losing its relevance. Challenged by the publication of Horace's Odes, and by the imminent arrival of Virgil&...

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1. Verfasser:	Wallis, Jonathan (VerfasserIn)
Format:	Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:	English
Veröffentlicht:	Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2018.
Schriftenreihe:	Cambridge classical studies.
Schlagworte:	Propertius, Sextus. > Elegiae. > Liber 3. Elegiae (Propertius, Sextus) Elegiac poetry, Latin > History and criticism. Poésie élégiaque latine > Histoire et critique. LITERARY CRITICISM > Ancient & Classical. Elegiac poetry, Latin Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Zusammenfassung:	Propertius re-invents Latin love-elegy in his third collection. Nearly a decade into the Augustan principate, the early counter-cultural impulse of Propertius' first collections was losing its relevance. Challenged by the publication of Horace's Odes, and by the imminent arrival of Virgil's Aeneid, in 23 BCE Propertius produced a radical collection of elegy which critically interrogates elegy's own origins as a genre, and which directly faces off Horatian lyric and Virgilian epic, as part of an ambitious claim to Augustan pre-eminence. But this is no moment of cultural submission. In Book 3, elegy's key themes of love, fidelity, and political independence are rebuilt from the beginning as part of a subtle critique of emerging Augustan mores. This book presents a series of readings of fourteen individual elegies from Propertius Book 3, including nostalgic love poems, an elegiac hymn to Bacchus, and a lament for Marcellus, the recently-dead nephew of Augustus.
Beschreibung:	1 online resource (x, 241 pages)
Bibliographie:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:	9781108271776 9781108265003 1108271774 1108265006