Propertius Elegies Book Iv

Author : Sextus Propertius
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520935845
Total Pages : 315 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Propertius in Love written by Sextus Propertius and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2002-06-03 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These ardent, even obsessed, poems about erotic passion are among the brightest jewels in the crown of Latin literature. Written by Propertius, Rome's greatest poet of love, who was born around 50 b.c., a contemporary of Ovid, these elegies tell of Propertius' tormented relationship with a woman he calls "Cynthia." Their connection was sometimes blissful, more often agonizing, but as the poet came to recognize, it went beyond pride or shame to become the defining event of his life. Whether or not it was Propertius' explicit intention, these elegies extend our ideas of desire, and of the human condition itself.

Author : Propertius
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521819571
Total Pages : 4 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Propertius: Elegies Book IV written by Propertius and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2006-08-31 with total page 4 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Up-to-date commentary, with introduction and new text, on this important work of Latin poetry.

Author : Propertius
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521125994
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Propertius: Elegies Book 4 written by Propertius and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2009-06-18 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this edition of Propertius Book IV, Camps follows the general lines of his earlier edition of Book I (Cambridge, 1960). He has presented, without concealing difficulties and uncertainties, a fairly conservative but readable and coherent text, together with such annotation as may help the modern reader of Latin to understand the language and follow the thought of this difficult, much disputed, but very rewarding poet. While the book may be of interest to students and amateurs of Latin in general, the editor has had in mind the particular needs of undergraduates and of sixth forms. The notes are weighted differently from those in Butler and Barber's edition of 1933 and the text of that edition and from the Oxford text of 1960. As far as we know, this is the poet's last work. He has moved away from his earlier preoccupation with the theme of love and the eleven careful elegies that compose the present book are on a variety of subjects. Most are concerned with Roman antiquities. The last is an elaborate and celebrated epitaph on a lady of Roman nobility. But perhaps the poems likely to appeal most to a modern reader are the two in which Propertius recalls and exhibits in a new light, the figure of Cynthia, the declared inspiration of the elegies of Book I.

Author : Sextus Propertius
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN 13 : 9780806134680
Total Pages : 510 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Elegies, I-IV written by Sextus Propertius and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 510 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Latin poet Propertius (ca. 50–16 B.C.) is considered by many to be the greatest elegiac poet of Rome. Long neglected because of the obscurity of his thought and the vagaries of his syntax, Propertius has now emerged as a writer of compelling originality and intellectual power. In this authoritative edition of Propertius’s elegies, L. Richardson, jr, makes these challenging poems both intelligible and accessible. For students of literature and history alike, Propertius offers insights into the intellectual world of Augustan Rome and Roman society. His perplexities and frustrations, his struggles with himself and with his domineering and capricious mistress Cynthia, and his exhilarations and depressions all strike a surprisingly familiar chord for the modern reader. Through an in-depth introduction and explanatory notes, Richardson strives to make the poems as readable as possible, at the same time examining the complexities and textual difficulties of the texts. Each elegy is accompanied by an introductory note providing a literary interpretation of the poem, followed by full and detailed commentary.

Author : Sextus Propertius
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 114 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Elegies written by Sextus Propertius and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Sextus Propertius
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780691115825
Total Pages : 524 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Complete Elegies of Sextus Propertius written by Sextus Propertius and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2004-06-06 with total page 524 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vincent Katz offers translations of all 107 known poems by the Augustan poet Sextus Propertius, a contemporary of Ovid. The translations keep as closely as possible to the original syntax, as Propertius' willful compressions & unusual tellings of myth are definitive of his poetics.

Author : S. J. Heyworth
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191527920
Total Pages : 666 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cynthia written by S. J. Heyworth and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2007-11-23 with total page 666 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Propertius is a poet of the Augustan period, a successor of the great Hellenistic elegiac poets Callimachus and Philitas, and a precursor of Ovid. His account of his fictionalized affair with his beloved alter ego Cynthia is the purest expression of the spirit of love elegy, setting them as a pair against war, epic, and (apparently) Augustus himself. This is an author read by virtually all students of Classical Latin. Cynthia provides a lucid attempt to understand and correct the many difficulties in the transmitted text. It consists of a commentary on the whole corpus, together with a prose translation (including alternative versions of ambiguous phrasing). In its clear exposition of technical problems, the book will serve as an introduction to Latin textual criticism in the modern age, and to elegiac poetic style.

Author : Sextus Propertius
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780192835734
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Poems written by Sextus Propertius and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Of the Greek and Latin love poets, Propertius (c. 50-10 B.C.) is one of those who holds the 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 analyzed with a tormented but witty grandeur in all its changing moods--from ecstasy to suicidal despair. This study includes English verse translations of his work, along with a chronology, explanatory notes, and a brief bibliography.

Author : Sextus Aurelius Propertius
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0198146744
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Elegos written by Sextus Aurelius Propertius and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2007-12-13 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A radical new edition of the Augustan poet Propertius, based on the latest research into the manuscript tradition. The English preface contains important comments on the way texts are edited and read. Some important emendations discovered in the papers of A. E. Housman are published here for the first time.

Author : Sextus Propertius
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
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Download or read book Propertius written by Sextus Propertius and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: