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Commentary on Propertius, Book 3

Commentary on Propertius, Book 3

Heyworth, S. J.
Morwood, J. H. W.

Hardcover

Literary CriticismFiction AnthologiesGeneral Poetry

ISBN10: 0199571481
ISBN13: 9780199571482
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Published: Jan 22 2011
Pages: 390
Weight: 1.27
Height: 1.20 Width: 5.70 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
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.

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