Propertius I

by: Baker, R.J.

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 What was it like to be in love in Rome? The 22 poems of Sextus Propertius' first book of elegies (published in 28 B.C.) offer an answer. Defiantly un-Roman in his devotion to his love for his Cynthia and to his art, Propertius writes with a strangely modern voice - passionate, wry, self-scrutinising and ironic. But it is a voice that has been shaped and controlled by a literary tradition already centuries old. This revised edition of Book I provides, in a verse translation which attempts to simulate the discipline and constraints of the hexameter/pentameter alternation in the elegiac couplets of the original poems, a handily self-contained Augustan poetry book - the earliest extant book of Latin love-elegy- to a readership without Latin. The Introduction and Commentary furnish the reader with explanations of the literary, mythological, historical and geographical allusions necessary for an understanding of the poems

Preface to the First Edition vii
Preface to the Second Edition viii
Select Bibliography ix
Introduction
The Poet
1 (1)
The Poetry
1 (8)
The Girl
9 (2)
The Book
11 (4)
The Translation
15 (2)
The Commentary
17 (1)
The Text
18 (1)
Propertius I Text and Translation 19 (44)
Commentary 63 (124)
Indexes 187

Parallel text in English and Latin on facing pages

Series:
Classical texts

xvi, 197 pages ; 22 cm

Propertius I

by: Baker, R.J.

• ISBN-13: 9780856687303 / 978-0-85668-730-3
• ISBN-03: 0856687308 / 0-85668-730-8
• Aris & Phillips Ltd., Oxford, 2000

Price: 40,79 EURO

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