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Sextus Propertius

Sextus Propertius

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Anthropology

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ISBN10: 6131897832
ISBN13: 9786131897832
Publisher: Alphascript Pub
Weight: 0.26
Height: 0.17 Width: 5.98 Depth: 9.02
Language: English
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Sextus Aurelius Propertius was a Latin elegiac poet who was born around 50-45 BC in Assisium) and died shortly after 15 BC. Propertius' surviving work comprises four books of Elegies. He was friends with the poets Gallus and Virgil, and had with them as his patron Maecenas, and through Maecenas, the emperor Augustus. In the 20th century Ezra Pound's poem Homage to Sextus Propertius cast Propertius as something of a satirist and political dissident, and his translation/interpretation of the elegies presented them as ancient examples of Pound's own Imagist theory of art. The imagist interpretation, the poet's tendency to sustain an interior monologue, and the deeply personal nature of his poetry have made Propertius a favorite in the modern age. Two modern English translations of his work have appeared since 2000, and the playwright Tom Stoppard in his masterwork The Invention of Love suggests the poet was responsible for much of what the West regards today as romantic love.

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