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Propertius: Book I
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Propertius: Book I

Robert J. Baker
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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 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.

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Format
Hardback
Publisher
Liverpool University Press
Country
United Kingdom
Date
1 January 2001
Pages
208
ISBN
9780856687297

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 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.

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Format
Hardback
Publisher
Liverpool University Press
Country
United Kingdom
Date
1 January 2001
Pages
208
ISBN
9780856687297

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