Introspection and Engagement in Propertius: A Study of Book 3

di Jonathan Wallis (Autore)

Cambridge University Press, 2018

Propertius re-invents 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 a lament for Marcellus, the recently-dead nephew of Augustus.

• Autore: Jonathan Wallis
• Editore: Cambridge University Press
• Collana: Cambridge Classical Studies
• Anno: 2018
• Rilegatura: Hardback
• Pagine: 248 p.
• Dimensioni: 223 x 145 mm
• Peso: 420 gr.
• EAN: 9781108417174

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