Propertius and the Virgilian Sensibility - Elegy After 19 Bc

"Studies Propertius' final collection of elegies as the earliest concerted response to the poetic career of Virgil in its totality. Reveals an elegiac Virgil as much as it does an epicizing Propertius, and enlarges familiar paradigms of allusion and intertextuality with implications for how literary and textual criticism are practised"--

List of contents

Introduction: Virgil and the Propertian sensibility; 2. Rus in Urbe: Virgilian pastoral in Propertius 4; 3. Shades of Dido: the Virgilian women of Propertius 4; 4. The Shield of Propertius: Virgilian histories in Propertius 4; 5. Romani patria Callimachi: Hellenistic poets at Rome; 6. Propertius' Epic Designs: the Virgilian architecture of Propertius 4; 7. Conclusions: Propertius and the Virgilian sensibility.

About the author

DONNCHA O'ROURKE is Senior Lecturer in Classics at the University of Edinburgh. He specializes in Latin literature of the late Roman republic and early empire, especially elegiac and didactic poetry. He is editor of Approaches to Lucretius (Cambridge, 2020). His co-edited volumes include Classics and Irish Politics: 1916–2016 (Oxford, 2020).

Product details

• Authors: Donncha O'Rourke, Donncha (University of Edinburgh) O''rourke
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 05.12.2024
• EAN: 9781108481731
• ISBN: 978-1-108-48173-1
• No. of pages: 500
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Antiquity; HISTORY / Ancient / General, Classical history / classical civilisation, 1st century, c 1 to c 99, Ancient Greek and Roman literature, 1st century, c 99 to c 1 BCE