Oxford Readings in Propertius

Ellen Greene is the Joseph Paxton Presidential Professor of Classics at the University of Oklahoma. She has published numerous books and articles on Greek and Latin love poetry. Tara Welch is an Associate Professor of Classics at the University of Kansas. She has published a number of articles on Latin poetry and a book on Propertius.

• PREFACE ; INTRODUCTION ; Whose Reading of What Propertiusa ; THE TEXT OF PROPERTIUS ; 2. Propertius, Between the Cult of the Transmitted Text and the Hunt for Corruption ; 3. Editing Propertius ; POETIC CONTEXTS ; 4. The Language of Propertius and the Stylistic Tendencies of Augustan Poetry ; 5. Propertius IV 9: Alexandrianism and Allusion ; 6. Propertius 1,4 and 1,5 and the Gallus of the Monobiblos ; 7. Prropertius and the Unity of the Book ; 8. Poetic Baldness and its Cure ; POETRY AND POLITICS ; 9. A Farewell to Promethean Man ; 10. Propertius 2.7. Militia amoris and the ironies of elegy ; 11. Images of the city: Propertius' new-old Rome ; GENDER ; 12. Mistress and metaphor in Augustan elegy ; 13. The Natural and Unnatural Silence of Women in the Elegies of Propertius ; 14. Gender and Genre in Propertius 2.8 and 2.9 ; 15. "Beyond good and Evil": Tarpeia & Philosophy in the Feminine (4.4) ; 16. Why Propertius is a Woman ; WORKS CITED ; BIBLIOGRAPHY