The Complete Elegies Of Sextus Propertius

Author : Sextus Propertius
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780691115825
Total Pages : 524 pages
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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 : Propertius
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400884136
Total Pages : 520 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Complete Elegies of Sextus Propertius written by Propertius and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2016-07-07 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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. ?

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 : Bristol Classical Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Elegiae Liber 3 written by Propertius and published by Bristol Classical Press. This book was released on 1985 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Edited with Introduction and Notes by W. A. Camps

Author : Sextus Propertius
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780691115818
Total Pages : 467 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Complete Elegies of Sextus Propertius written by Sextus Propertius and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 467 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 : 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 : 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 : 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 : Sextus Propertius
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 320 pages
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Download or read book The Elegies of Sextus Propertius written by Sextus Propertius and published by . This book was released on 1875 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Sextus Propertius
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520312058
Total Pages : 274 pages
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Download or read book The Poems of Sextus Propertius written by Sextus Propertius and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-04-28 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Propertius is a poet of singular boldness and originality. It is, perhaps, fitting that he have a translator to match. . .. The results justify his approach. McCulloch has remained faithful to the essential content, development, and tone of his originals. At the same time, by refusing rigid adherence tot he syntax and vocabulary of each poem, he has allowed himself the freedom to endow his versions with all the force and expressiveness that he has at his command. These are considerable, for he is a gifted poet. His versions possess a rapidity and piquancy unusual in translations. Some of his turns of phrase are quite arresting. In short, his translations are also poems in their own right." --Classical World This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1972.