Sextus Propertius Hardback: The Augustan Elegist - Hardcover

Cairns

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0521864577 ISBN 13: 9780521864572

Verlag: Cambridge University Press, 2006

Inhaltsangabe

In 30–15 BC Sextus Propertius composed at Rome four books of elegies which exhibit an unparalleled richness of themes, concepts and language. This book relates Propertius' elegies to his family and background in Assisi and to the patrons of his poetry - Tullus, 'Gallus', Maecenas and Augustus.

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Críticas:

Review of the hardback: '... there is an enormous amount of useful material here ... he (Cairns) offers useful stimuli to thought and argument.' The Times Literary Supplement

Biografía del autor:

Francis Cairns is Professor of Classical Languages at the Florida State University. He is the author of Generic Composition in Greek and Roman Poetry (1972), Tibullus: A Hellenistic Poet at Rome (1979) and Virgil's Augustan Epic (1989), as well as numerous articles on Greek and Latin poetry.

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• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0521864577
• ISBN 13: 9780521864572
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 508