An edition of Elegiae (1780)

Elegies.

Edited, with an introd. and commentary by H.E. Butler and E.A. Barber.

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Sextus Propertius, Albius Tibu ...
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An edition of Elegiae (1780)

Elegies.

Edited, with an introd. and commentary by H.E. Butler and E.A. Barber.

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Of all the Greek and Latin love poets, Propertius (c.50-10 BC) is one of those who perhaps holds 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 analysed with a tormented but witty grandeur in all its changing moods - from ecstacy to suicidal despair.

The son of an Umbrian landowner who fought on the wrong side in the Civil War after Caesar's murder, he lost his father and most of his family estate in boyhood and was brought up by his mother. He was able nevertheless to reject a legal or military career and to devote his life to the art of poetry, in which he is a far more self-conscious practitioner than most of the other Latin poets. His modern popularity was furthered in particular by Ezra Pound's Homage to Sextus Propertius (1919).

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Clarendon Press
Language
English
Pages
407

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Cover of: Propertius
Propertius: Elegies I-IV (American Philological Association Series of Classical Texts)
December 31, 2006, University of Oklahoma Press
Paperback in English
Cover of: Elegies
Elegies: book II
1967, Cambridge University Press
in Latin
Cover of: Elegies.
Cover of: Elegiae.
Elegiae.: Recensuit Lucianus Mueller. Ed. stereotypa.
1910, In aedibus B.G. Teubneri
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Propertius
1906, The Clarendon press
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Propertius
1906, The Clarendon press
Cover of: Carmina.
Cover of: Elegiarum libri 4.
Cover of: Elegiae quaedam Propertii suethicis versibus expressae annotationibusque instructae
Cover of: Die  drei letzen Elegien des IV. Buchs des Propertius
Die drei letzen Elegien des IV. Buchs des Propertius
1850, C. Hörmann
Microform in German
Cover of: Elegiarum libri 4.

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Library of Congress
PA6644 A2 1933

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Pagination
407p.
Number of pages
407

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OL15147341M

First Sentence

"CYNTHIA was the first To capture with her eyes my pitiable self: Till then I was free from desire's contagion."

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