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What was it like to be in love in Rome? Th 22 poems of Sextus Propertius' first book of elegies (publisehed 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.

Table of Contents
Preface to the First Edition; Preface to the Second Edition; Select Bibliography; Introduction; I The Poet; II The Poetry; III The Girl; IV The Book; V The Translation; VI The Commentary; VII The Text;Parallel Latin text and English translation; Commentary; Indexes.

Propertius Book I Aris Phillips Classical Texts

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      Publisher: Liverpool University Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 01/01/2001
      ISBN13: 9780856687303, 978-0856687303
      ISBN10: 0856687308

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      What was it like to be in love in Rome? Th 22 poems of Sextus Propertius' first book of elegies (publisehed 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.

      Table of Contents
      Preface to the First Edition; Preface to the Second Edition; Select Bibliography; Introduction; I The Poet; II The Poetry; III The Girl; IV The Book; V The Translation; VI The Commentary; VII The Text;Parallel Latin text and English translation; Commentary; Indexes.

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