Propertius Book I

by Baker, Robert J.

• ISBN13: 9780856687303
• ISBN10: 0856687308
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-01-01
• Publisher: Liverpool University Press

Summary

What was it like to be in love in Rome? The 22 poems of Sextus Propertius' first book of elegies (published in 28 BC) offer an answer. Definitely un-Roman in his devotion to love for his Cynthia and his art, Propertius writes with a strangely modern voice - passionate, wry, self-scrutinising, and ironic. But it is a voice that had been shaped and controlled by a literary tradition already centuries old.

Table of Contents

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