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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
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
Related URLs:	UTAS Profile: Wallis, J
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