Propertius - Poet of Love and Leisure

Zusatztext The argument is clear! cogent and supported by extremely copious quotation. Informationen zum Autor Alison Keith is Professor and Chair, Department of Classics, University of Toronto. She is the author of The Play of Fictions: Studies in Ovid's Metamorphoses Book 2 (1992) , Engendering Rome: Women in Latin Epic , and Roman Literature and its Contexts (2000). Klappentext In Propertius: Poet of Love and Leisure , Alison Keith explores Propertius' elegiac poetry in the context of early imperial Roman society. Examining a variety of themes associated with both Propertian poetics (such genre theory, poetic models, the girlfriend, the rival) and the poet's social context within the early Augustan principate (such as Roman imperialism, the elite male cursus honorum, Augustus' building projects) she offers a synthetic overview of Propertius' achievement in his four books of elegies. She considers the neglected relationship of rhetoric to Propertian elegiac poetics, as well as Propertius' debt to the classical literary tradition, and she explores themes in the corpus that reflect the Augustan imperial context in which Propertius lived and wrote. Arguing for neither a pro- nor an anti-Augustanism on display in Propertian elegy, Keith brings to light the multiple ways in which Roman imperial rule, the new pax Augusta, and new forms of elite Roman political competition intersect in and inform Propertius' poetry. The volume aims to contribute to our understanding of both Latin literature and Augustan culture its sustained exploration of refractions of the Roman 'imperialist enterprise' in Propertius' elegiac poetry. Zusammenfassung Explores Propertius' elegiac poetry in the context of early imperial Roman society. Examining a variety of themes associated with both Propertian poetics and the poet's social context within the early Augustan principate, this work offers an overview of Propertius' achievement in his four books of elegies. Inhaltsverzeichnis Editor's Foreword Acknowledgments 1. Qualis et unde genus? Sextus Propertius, His Friends and Relations 2. Insano uerba tonare Foro: Propertian Elegy and Roman Rhetoric 3. Callimachus Romanus: Propertius' Elegiac Poetics 4. Cynthia rara: Propertius and the Elegiac Traffic in Women 5. Hos inter si me ponere Fama uolet: Between Men 6. Nequitiae caput: Propertian Elegy and Imperial Leisure Notes Bibliography Index Locorum General Index ...

Produktdetails

• Autoren: A M Keith, A. M. Keith, A.m. Keith, Alison Keith, Keith A. M.
• Verlag: Bloomsbury Academic
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erschienen: 10.11.2008
• EAN: 9780715634530
• ISBN: 978-0-7156-3453-0
• Seiten: 224
• Abmessung: 156 mm x 234 mm x 18 mm
• Serien: Classical Literature and Socie; Classical Literature and Socie; Classical Literature and Society
• Themen: Belletristik > Lyrik, Dramatik; Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft > Englische Sprachwissenschaft / Literaturwissenschaft; Latin, LITERARY CRITICISM / Ancient & Classical, POETRY / Ancient & Classical, LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Ancient & Classical, Literary studies: classical, early & medieval, Literary studies: poetry & poets, Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval, Literary studies: poetry and poets