The Complete Elegies Of Sextus Propertius

Author : Propertius
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 520 pages
File Size : 54,7 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 : 467 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 0691115818

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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 : Univ of California Press
Page : 315 pages
File Size : 45,8 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 : Sextus Propertius
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 44,7 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 : Sextus Propertius
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1875
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:600083247

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The Elegies of Sextus Propertius, tr. into Engl. verse, with life of the poet and illustr. notes by J. Cranstoun by Sextus Propertius Pdf

Author : Sextus Propertius
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1875
Category : Electronic
ISBN : HARVARD:HN2SUH

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The Elegies of Sextus Propertius by Sextus Propertius Pdf

Author : Sextus Propertius
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1875
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0026174810

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The Elegies of Sextus Propertius, Translated Into English Verse, with Life of the Poet and Illustrative Notes, by J. Cranstoun by Sextus Propertius Pdf

Author : Sextus Propertius,Robert John Baker
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 197 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : History
ISBN : 0856687294

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Propertius I by Sextus Propertius,Robert John Baker Pdf

What was it like to be in love in Rome? The 22 poems of Sextus Propertius' first book of elegies (published in 28 B.C.) offer an answer. Defiantly un-Roman in his devotion to his love for his Cynthia and to his art, Propertius writes with a strangely modern voice - passionate, wry, self-scrutinising and ironic. But it is a voice that has been shaped and controlled by a literary tradition already centuries old. This revised edition of Book I provides, in a verse translation which attempts to simulate the discipline and constraints of the hexameter/pentameter alternation in the elegiac couplets of the original poems, a handily self-contained Augustan poetry book - the earliest extant book of Latin love-elegy- to a readership without Latin. The Introduction and Commentary furnish the reader with explanations of the literary, mythological, historical and geographical allusions necessary for an understanding of the poems.

Author : ProQuest (Firm)
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2002-06-03
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780520228788

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Propertius in Love by ProQuest (Firm) Pdf

Propertius' elegies, written towards the end of the 1st century BC, record the poet's desparate and impossible relationship with his volatile mistress Cynthia'. Slavitt's elegant translations are preceded by a foreword by Matthew S Santirocco that examines Propertius' persona and places his works within a context of Greek and Latin love poetry.

Author : Sextus Propertius
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2023-04-28
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780520312050

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The Poems of Sextus Propertius by Sextus Propertius Pdf

"Propertius is a poet of singular boldness and originality. It is, perhaps, fitting that he have a translator to match. . .. The results justify his approach. McCulloch has remained faithful to the essential content, development, and tone of his originals. At the same time, by refusing rigid adherence tot he syntax and vocabulary of each poem, he has allowed himself the freedom to endow his versions with all the force and expressiveness that he has at his command. These are considerable, for he is a gifted poet. His versions possess a rapidity and piquancy unusual in translations. Some of his turns of phrase are quite arresting. In short, his translations are also poems in their own right." --Classical World This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1972.

Author : S. J. Heyworth
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 666 pages
File Size : 52,5 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 : Propertius
Publisher : Bristol Classical Press
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 53,5 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 : Sextus Propertius
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 080613643X

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The Poems by Sextus Propertius Pdf

Flamboyant and passionate, the love poems of Propertius are among the most beautiful to have been written in any language. In this eloquent and consistently faithful translation, W. G. Shepherd does full justice to the work of this remarkable Latin poet. Born about 48 B.C. in Umbria, Sextus Propertius was one of a group of poets influenced by Greek Alexandrian mannerism who developed the genre of Roman love elegy. Through shifting moods of ecstasy and frustration, his early works celebrate his obsessive love for his mistress, Cynthia. All his work is distinguished by strong visual imagery, richness of language, and an intensely personal style.

Author : Sextus Propertius
Publisher : Wentworth Press
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2019-02-27
Category : History
ISBN : 0526035080

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The Elegies of Sextus Propertius, Tr. Into Engl. Verse, with Life of the Poet and Illustr. Notes by by Sextus Propertius Pdf

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Author : Sextus Propertius,James Cranstoun
Publisher : Legare Street Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2022-10-27
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1019147415

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The Elegies of Sextus Propertius by Sextus Propertius,James Cranstoun Pdf

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.