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Poems

Name: Poems
Brand: Oxford University Press
SKU: 04521964
Price: 101.12 EUR
Availability: InStock
Author: Sextus Propertius
ISBN: 9780198144977

Sextus Propertius

Language

English

Book Hardback

Libristo code: 04521964

Publishers Oxford University Press, June 1994

Of all the Greek and Latin love poets, Propertius (c. 50-10 BC) is one of those who perhaps holds mo... Full description

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Of all the Greek and Latin love poets, Propertius (c. 50-10 BC) is one of those who perhaps holds most immediate appeal for the twentieth century reader. His helpless infatuation for the sinister figure of his mistress Cynthia forms the main subject of his poetry, and is analysed with a tormented but witty grandeur in all its changing moods - from ecstasy to suicidal despair. The son of an Umbrian landowner who fought on the wrong side in the Civil War after Caesar's murder, he lost his father and most of the family estate in boyhood and was brought up by his mother. He was able nevertheless to reject a legal or military career and to devote his life to the art of poetry, in which he is a far more self-conscious practitioner than most of the other Latin poets. His modern popularity was furthered in particular by Ezra Pound's Homage to Sextus Propertius (1919).