The Poems of Sextus Propertius
Great poet though he is, Propertius (born c. 50 B.C.) has been relatively little read. His chief subjects are love, death, and Roman life. This. . . edition offers and excellent, readable, poetic translation. --Key Reporter Attractive in an up-to-date idiom and topicality . . . judiciously balanced by polished elegance of phrase which does ample justice to the more sonorous and urbane areas of the original . . . he almost always captures the sustains our interest. His diction is more forthright, spare, unaffected, and modern in tone than any previous full-scale translation. --Time Higher Education Supplement
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- ISBN: 978-0-520-35826-3
- EAN: 9780520358263
- Produktnummer: 33926330
- Verlag: University Presses
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2021
- Seitenangabe: 278 S.
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Sextus Propertius was a Latin elegiac poet of the Augustan age.
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