Propertius

Author : Sextus Propertius
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 315 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2002-06-03
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780520935846

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Propertius in Love by Sextus Propertius Pdf

These ardent, even obsessed, poems about erotic passion are among the brightest jewels in the crown of Latin literature. Written by Propertius, Rome's greatest poet of love, who was born around 50 b.c., a contemporary of Ovid, these elegies tell of Propertius' tormented relationship with a woman he calls "Cynthia." Their connection was sometimes blissful, more often agonizing, but as the poet came to recognize, it went beyond pride or shame to become the defining event of his life. Whether or not it was Propertius' explicit intention, these elegies extend our ideas of desire, and of the human condition itself.

Author : Propertius
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 520 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2016-07-07
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781400884131

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The Complete Elegies of Sextus Propertius by Propertius Pdf

The Roman poet Propertius is best known as the writer who perfected the Latin love elegy, a technical as much as a psychological and cultural feat. Propertius has been admired for both his metrical genius and the modernity of his narrative flow. Many of the poems here pay tribute to Cynthia, Propertius's romantic obsession, but the scope of these 107 elegies is broad. Propertius's poetry offers a fascinating look into life in the Augustan age, addressing social, political, and historical subjects. A contemporary of Virgil and Horace, Propertius has influenced scores of poets--from Ovid to Housman to Pound. His poetry appears here for the first time in a dual-language edition with the translations facing the original Latin. Rendered into English by a poet who is also one of the nation's pre-eminent Propertius experts, the volume brings Propertius's difficult mix of vernacular and high literary allusion into contemporary language. Cynthia was the first. She caught me with her eyes, a fool who had never before been touched by desires. Love cast down my look of constant pride, and he pressed on my head with his feet, until he taught me to despise chaste girls, perversely, and to live without plan. Already, it's been a whole year that the frenzy hasn't stopped, when, for all that, the gods are against me. ?

Author : Sextus Propertius
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 0192835734

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The Poems by Sextus Propertius Pdf

Of the Greek and Latin love poets, Propertius (c. 50-10 B.C.) is one of those who holds the most immediate appeal for the twentieth-century reader. His helpless infatuation for the sinister figure of his mistress Cynthia forms the main subject of his poetry, and is analyzed with a tormented but witty grandeur in all its changing moods--from ecstasy to suicidal despair. This study includes English verse translations of his work, along with a chronology, explanatory notes, and a brief bibliography.

Author : S. J. Heyworth
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 666 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2007-11-23
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780191527920

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Cynthia by S. J. Heyworth Pdf

Propertius is a poet of the Augustan period, a successor of the great Hellenistic elegiac poets Callimachus and Philitas, and a precursor of Ovid. His account of his fictionalized affair with his beloved alter ego Cynthia is the purest expression of the spirit of love elegy, setting them as a pair against war, epic, and (apparently) Augustus himself. This is an author read by virtually all students of Classical Latin. Cynthia provides a lucid attempt to understand and correct the many difficulties in the transmitted text. It consists of a commentary on the whole corpus, together with a prose translation (including alternative versions of ambiguous phrasing). In its clear exposition of technical problems, the book will serve as an introduction to Latin textual criticism in the modern age, and to elegiac poetic style.

Author : S. J. Heyworth,J. H. W. Morwood
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2010-11-25
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 019957149X

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A Commentary on Propertius by S. J. Heyworth,J. H. W. Morwood Pdf

An edition of the most wide-ranging and entertaining of the books of the Latin love poet Propertius. A lucid and informative introduction sets the scene, and the notes, as well as offering a detailed and stimulating commentary, give a substantial amount of linguistic help to ensure that the poems are approachable.

Author : D. Thomas Benediktson
Publisher : SIU Press
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0809314533

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Propertius by D. Thomas Benediktson Pdf

An examination of Propertius in light of nonclassical, modernist literary techniques, especially internal monologue or stream of consciousness and imagism. Classical writers typically try to order or shape disparate experiences while modernists seek to present the complexity and disarray of human experience. Failing to realize that Propertius is in the modernist camp has led previous textual critics to divide and reorganize his poems. A. E. Housman, for example, unsuccessfully tried to reorder the lines in one Propertian poem into a logical and chronological sequence. On the contrary, Propertius, like the modernists, attempts to communicate experience itself through the association of ideas or through the reflection upon a visual picture or series of pictures (imagism, or what Pound described as the "superposition" of image and narrative). Benediktson finds philosophical justification for imagism in the Epicurean theory of images and in the Epicurean theorist and poet Philodemus, as well as in the doctrine of utpictura poesis. The result is a picture of Propertius that accounts for the mathematical precision of Book I, the structural chaos of Book II, and the more balanced poetry of Books III and IV.

Author : Peter J. Heslin
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2018-05-18
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780192524294

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Propertius, Greek Myth, and Virgil by Peter J. Heslin Pdf

This volume offers a strikingly innovative account of Propertius' relationship with Virgil, positing a keen rivalry between two of the greatest poets of Latin literature, contemporaries within the circle of Maecenas. It begins by examining all of the references to Greek mythology in Propertius' first book; these passages emerge as strongly intertextual in nature, providing a way for the poet to situate himself with respect to his predecessors, both Greek and Roman. More specifically, myth is also the medium of a sustained polemic with Virgil's Eclogues, published only a few years earlier. Virgil's response can be traced in the Georgics, and subsequently, in his second and third books, Propertius continued to use mythology and its relationship to contemporary events as a vehicle for literary polemic. This volume argues that their competition can be seen as exemplifying a revised model for how the poets within Maecenas' circle interacted and engaged with each other's work - a model based on rivalry rather than ideological adhesion or subversion - while also painting a revealing picture of how Virgil was viewed by a contemporary in the days before his death had canonized his work as an instant classic. In particular, its novel interpretation offers us a new understanding of Propertius, one of the foundational figures in Western love poetry, and how his frequent references to other poets, especially Gallus and Ennius, take on new meanings when interpreted as responses to Virgil's changing career.

Author : Propertius
Publisher : Bristol Classical Press
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : UOM:39015013242907

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Elegiae Liber 3 by Propertius Pdf

Edited with Introduction and Notes by W. A. Camps

Author : Propertius
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 4 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2006-08-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521819572

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Propertius: Elegies Book IV by Propertius Pdf

Propertius' fourth book is his most challenging and innovative. It disrupts genre; dislocates time and order; and meditates on gender, perception and history. A sort of postmodernism combines with narrative and structural verve, incisively physical writing and a gallery of colourful characters. This edition makes a demanding and rewarding text more accessible and more intelligible. The text is new; help and fresh ideas are offered on the text and meaning of words. A wide range of literary, inscriptional and archaeological material is used to illuminate this many-sided poetry. Much more space is given than in previous editions to literary interpretation and historical contextualization, in the light of modern work. The book is approached as a dynamic sequence of poems rather than a collection. The edition should be valuable to both students and scholars.

Author : Hans-Christian Günther
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 488 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2006-07-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789047404835

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Brill's Companion to Propertius by Hans-Christian Günther Pdf

The present volume provides a comprehensive guide to one of the most difficult authors of classical antiquity. All the major aspects of Propertius ́ work are dealt with in contributions by renowned specialists. Due space is also given to the reception of the author. At the centre stands an interpretation of the four transmitted books.

Author : Sextus Propertius
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 524 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2004-06-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0691115826

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The Complete Elegies of Sextus Propertius by Sextus Propertius Pdf

Vincent Katz offers translations of all 107 known poems by the Augustan poet Sextus Propertius, a contemporary of Ovid. The translations keep as closely as possible to the original syntax, as Propertius' willful compressions & unusual tellings of myth are definitive of his poetics.

Author : Sextus Propertius
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1972
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : STANFORD:36105034036587

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The Poems of Propertius by Sextus Propertius Pdf

Author : Jonathan Wallis
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2018-04-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108417174

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Introspection and Engagement in Propertius by Jonathan Wallis Pdf

Explores how Propertius' third book re-invents Latin love-elegy for the reality of Rome's new imperial age.

Author : Sextus Propertius
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 510 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 0806134682

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Elegies, I-IV by Sextus Propertius Pdf

The Latin poet Propertius (ca. 50–16 B.C.) is considered by many to be the greatest elegiac poet of Rome. Long neglected because of the obscurity of his thought and the vagaries of his syntax, Propertius has now emerged as a writer of compelling originality and intellectual power. In this authoritative edition of Propertius’s elegies, L. Richardson, jr, makes these challenging poems both intelligible and accessible. For students of literature and history alike, Propertius offers insights into the intellectual world of Augustan Rome and Roman society. His perplexities and frustrations, his struggles with himself and with his domineering and capricious mistress Cynthia, and his exhilarations and depressions all strike a surprisingly familiar chord for the modern reader. Through an in-depth introduction and explanatory notes, Richardson strives to make the poems as readable as possible, at the same time examining the complexities and textual difficulties of the texts. Each elegy is accompanied by an introductory note providing a literary interpretation of the poem, followed by full and detailed commentary.

Author : Tara S. Welch
Publisher : Ohio State University Press
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : History
ISBN : 9780814210093

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The Elegiac Cityscape by Tara S. Welch Pdf

The Roman elegiac poet Propertius was one such author. This final published collection, issued in 16 BCE, has been traditionally read as an abandonment by Propertius of his earlier flippant love poems for a more mature engagement with Roman public life or else a comical send-up of imperial policies as embodied in Rome's public buildings. The Elegiac Cityscape explores Propertius' Rome and the various ways his poetry about the city illuminates the dynamic relationship between one individual and his environment. The relationship between poet and city is complicated at every turn by the presence in the background of the emperor Augustus, whose sustained artistic patronage of Roman monuments brought about the most pervasive transformation that the city had yet seen. Combining the approaches of archaeology and literary criticism, Tara S. Welch examines how Propertius' poems on Roman places scrutinize the monumentalization of various ideological positions in Rome, as they poke and prod Rome's monuments to see what further meanings they might admit. The result is a poetic book rife with different perspectives on the eternal city, perspectives that often call into question any sleepy or complacent adherence to Rome's traditional values. Book jacket.