Complete Elegies of Sextus Propertius
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Alcmene
Amores (Ovid)
Amymone
Apuleius
Arria
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Briseis
Callimachus
Castor and Pollux
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Catullus
Cimbri
Claudia Quinta
Clementia
Clytemnestra
Cognomen
Corinna
Cornelius Gallus
Creusa
Daphnis
Dirce
Domus Aurea
Edmund Keeley
Elegiac couplet
Ephialtes
Epic poetry
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Fasti
Guido Gozzano
His Woman
Horatii
Horatius Cocles
Iacchus
Iphigenia
Ixion
Lesbia
Liber
Lusus
Marcus Curtius
Nireus
Oeneus
Oenone
Ogygia
Parilia
Patronus
Pelias
Penthesilea (Kleist)
Phineus (son of Belus)
Poetry
Polyphemus
Propertius
Protesilaus
Scipio Aemilianus
Semele
Sibylline Books
Sisyphus
Suetonius
Suovetaurilia
Supplication
Tarpeia
Teuthras
The Bacchae
The Suppliants (Euripides)
Thebaid (Latin poem)
Theiodamas
Theocritus
Thyrsis (poem)
Tristia
Vertumnus
Vestalia
Via Flaminia
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- ISBN 9780691115825
- Weight: 709g
- Dimensions: 152 x 235mm
- Publication Date: 06 Jun 2004
- Publisher: Princeton University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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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.
Vincent Katz is a poet, translator, art critic, and curator. He is the author of "Charm", translations from the Latin of book I of the elegies of Sextus Propertius, as well as eight books of original poetry.
