Introspection and Engagement in Propertius
A Study of Book 3
Inbunden, Engelska, 2018
Av Jonathan Wallis, Jonathan (University of Tasmania) Wallis
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Fri frakt för medlemmar vid köp för minst 249 kr.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.
Produktinformation
- Utgivningsdatum2018-04-12
- Mått145 x 223 x 17 mm
- Vikt420 g
- FormatInbunden
- SpråkEngelska
- SerieCambridge Classical Studies
- Antal sidor248
- FörlagCambridge University Press
- ISBN9781108417174