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 This volume explores Propertius elegiac poetry in the context of early imperial Roman society 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

Product details

• Authors: A M Keith, A. M. Keith, A.m. Keith, Alison Keith, Keith A. M.
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 10.11.2008
• EAN: 9780715634530
• ISBN: 978-0-7156-3453-0
• No. of pages: 224
• Dimensions: 156 mm x 234 mm x 18 mm
• Series: Classical Literature and Socie; Classical Literature and Socie; Classical Literature and Society
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; 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