[PDF] A Commentary On Propertius eBook

Author : S. J. Heyworth
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 44,12 MB
Release : 2010-11-25
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780199571499

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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 : S. J. Heyworth
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 666 pages
File Size : 11,3 MB
Release : 2007-11-23
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 0191527920

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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 : Cambridge University Press
Page : 4 pages
File Size : 40,12 MB
Release : 2006-08-31
Category : History
ISBN : 0521819571

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Up-to-date commentary, with introduction and new text, on this important work of Latin poetry.

Author : Sextus Propertius
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 510 pages
File Size : 41,43 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780806134680

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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 : Sextus Propertius
Publisher :
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 39,22 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780192835734

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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 : OUP Oxford
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 50,50 MB
Release : 2007-12-13
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 0198146744

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A radical new edition of the Augustan poet Propertius, based on the latest research into the manuscript tradition. The English preface contains important comments on the way texts are edited and read. Some important emendations discovered in the papers of A. E. Housman are published here for the first time.

Author : S. J. Heyworth
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 45,34 MB
Release : 2010-11-25
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0199571481

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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 : Sextus Propertius
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 315 pages
File Size : 42,10 MB
Release : 2002-06-03
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0520935845

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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 : Jonathan Wallis
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 41,29 MB
Release : 2018-04-12
Category : History
ISBN : 1108417175

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