Cynthia: A Companion to the Text of Propertius
Propertius is a poet of the Augustan period, a successor of the great Hellenistic elegiac poets Callimachus and Philitas, and a precursor of Ovid. His account of his fictionalized affair with his beloved alter ego Cynthia is the purest expression of the spirit of love elegy, setting them as a pair against war, epic, and (apparently) Augustus himself. This is an author read by virtually all students of Classical Latin. Cynthia provides a lucid attempt to understand and correct the many difficulties in the transmitted text. It consists of a commentary on the whole corpus, together with a prose translation (including alternative versions of ambi…
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- ISBN: 978-0-19-922870-6
- EAN: 9780199228706
- Produktnummer: 22403808
- Verlag: OXFORD UNIV PR
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2008
- Seitenangabe: 650 S.
- Masse: H23.6 cm x B16.5 cm x D4.2 cm 1'107 g
- Gewicht: 1107
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S. J. Heyworth is Bowra Fellow and Tutor in Classics, Wadham College, Oxford.
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