A Propertius Reader: Eleven Selected Elegies (Bc Latin Readers) - Softcover

Bowditch, P. Lowell

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0865167230 ISBN 13: 9780865167230

Verlag: Bolchazy Carducci Pub, 2013

Inhaltsangabe

The erotic elegy of Propertius reveals the work of a consummate artist, one who deftly weaves public themes into the emotional experiences of a first-person narrator. The poems in this selection reflect an evolution from a private focus on erotic love to more public and political themes, charting a gradual if ambiguous accommodation to the interests of the Augustan regime. Compelling portraits of passion are entwined with varied features of Rome s momentous historical transition from republic to empire: the trauma of recent civil wars, nostalgia for an irrecoverable past, the stirrings of social legislation, and the opulence of foreign luxuries from trade and conquest. Selections also display Propertius s innovative treatment of gender and the psychology of desire, and provide insight into the origins of Western attitudes toward erotic feeling.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Bolchazy Carducci Pub
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2013
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0865167230
• ISBN 13: 9780865167230
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 186
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