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A Commentary on Propertius, Book 3
Contributor(s): Heyworth, S. J. (Author), Morwood, J. H. W. (Author)

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 ISBN: 019957149X     ISBN-13: 9780199571499
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
OUR PRICE: $56.05  

Binding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: January 2011
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BISAC Categories:
- Literary Collections | Ancient, Classical & Medieval
- Language Arts & Disciplines | Linguistics - General
- Literary Criticism
Dewey: 851
LCCN: 2010935064
Physical Information: 0.9" H x 5.4" W x 8.4" L (1.05 lbs) 400 pages
Features: Bibliography, Glossary, Index, Maps
 
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The most passionate, individual, and controversial of the Latin love elegists, Propertius in Book 3 covers a broad range of subject matter and a vast geographical reach. After books focused on his mistress Cynthia, he maintains his elegiac role but expands his range to provide a lover's
commentary on life, discussing luxury, nudity, art, the empire, and the dangers of travel for profit and war. This detailed commentary uses the text recently published in the Oxford Classical Texts series, and sets out to build on the richness of the material in the book by providing clear
introductions to the genres the poems explore - the Greek elegy of Callimachus, epic, tragedy, hymn and epigram - and to topics such as patronage, philosophy, and the images of love as slavery and as warfare.
 
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