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Introspection and Engagement in Propertius: A Study of Book 3

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Abstract
Propertius reinvents 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 an lament for Marcellus, the recently-dead nephew of Augustus.
Item Type: | Book |
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Authors/Creators: | Wallis, J |
Keywords: | Latin, Augustan, Elegy, Propertius, Rome, Love, Politics, Genre |
Publisher: | Cambridge University Press |
DOI / ID Number: | 10.1017/9781108265003 |
Copyright Information: | Copyright 2018 Faculty of Classics, University of Cambridge |
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