Introspection and engagement in Propertius : a study of Book 3 / Jonathan Wallis.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wallis, Jonathan, author.

Series:

Cambridge classical studies.

Cambridge classical studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Propertius, Sextus. Elegiae--Liber 3.

Propertius, Sextus.

Elegiac poetry, Latin--History and criticism.

Elegiac poetry, Latin.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (x, 241 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2018.

Summary:

Propertius re-invents Latin love-elegy in his third collection. Nearly a decade into the Augustan principate, the early counter-cultural impulse of Propertius' first collections was losing its relevance. Challenged by the publication of Horace's Odes, and by the imminent arrival of Virgil's Aeneid, in 23 BCE Propertius produced a radical collection of elegy which critically interrogates elegy's own origins as a genre, and which directly faces off Horatian lyric and Virgilian epic, as part of an ambitious claim to Augustan pre-eminence. But this is no moment of cultural submission. In Book 3, elegy's key themes of love, fidelity, and political independence are rebuilt from the beginning as part of a subtle critique of emerging Augustan mores. This book presents a series of readings of fourteen individual elegies from Propertius Book 3, including nostalgic love poems, an elegiac hymn to Bacchus, and a lament for Marcellus, the recently-dead nephew of Augustus.

Contents:

Turning elegy upside down: Propertius 3.1-3

Seeking fides in poets and poetry: Propertius 3.6

Thematic experimentation: Propertius 3.9-11

Marriage and the elegiac woman: Propertius 3.12

Delays and destinations: Propertius 3.16

A hymn to Bacchus: Propertius 3.17

In lament for Marcellus: Propertius 3.18

Renewing an elegiac contract: Propertius 3.20

Breaking up (with) Cynthia: Propertius 3.24

Epilogue the apotheosis of amor: Propertius 3.22.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 24 Apr 2018).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-108-26631-2

1-108-26500-6

1-108-27177-4