Oxford Readings in Propertius

1. Auflage 2012
ISBN: 978-0-19-956303-6
Verlag: OUP Oxford

Buch, Englisch, 528 Seiten, Format (B × H): 145 mm x 222 mm, Gewicht: 860 g

This volume focuses on the great Roman love poet Propertius. Propertius' poetry reveals an ardent love affair between the poet and his girlfriend, whom he calls 'Cynthia', yet it also offers a snapshot of life in ancient Rome during the Augustan age (20s BC). While this was a period of growth and revival after the crippling civil wars of the previous century, it was also a time when Rome was adjusting to a new form of government under its first emperor.

Oxford Readings in Propertius is the first volume on Propertius' poetry to bring together some of the best and most influential scholarship written during the last three decades and put them into dialogue with each other. The articles discuss the recent developments in Propertius scholarship, as well as major critical approaches that have emerged in classical studies in general, and look at issues of text, intertextuality, gender, and the social and political context of Propertius' work.

Zielgruppe

For students and scholars interested in Classical studies, Latin Literature, and Roman studies

Autoren/Hrsg.

Greene, Ellen

Welch, Tara S.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Klassische Literaturwissenschaft Klassische Lateinische Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literatursoziologie, Gender Studies
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie Geschichte der klassischen Antike Römische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- Preface

- Introduction

- Whose Reading of What Propertiusa

- The Text of Propertius

- 2: Paolo Fedeli: Propertius, Between the Cult of the Transmitted Text and the Hunt for Corruption

- 3: James Butrica: Editing Propertius

- Poetic Contexts

- 4: Herman Tränkle: The Language of Propertius and the Stylistic Tendencies of Augustan Poetry

- 5: Paola Pinotti: Propertius IV 9: Alexandrianism and Allusion

- 6: Francis Cairns: Propertius 1,4 and 1,5 and the Gallus of the Monobiblos

- 7: G. O. Hutchinson: Prropertius and the Unity of the Book

- 8: James E.G. Zetzel: Poetic Baldness and its Cure

- Poetry and Politics

- 9: Hans Peter-Stahl: A Farewell to Promethean Man

- 10: Monica Gale: Propertius 2.7. Militia amoris and the ironies of elegy

- 11: Elaine Fantham: Images of the city: Propertius' new-old Rome

- Gender

- 12: Maria Wyke: Mistress and metaphor in Augustan elegy

- 13: Barbara K. Gold: The Natural and Unnatural Silence of Women in the Elegies of Propertius

- 14: Ellen Greene: Gender and Genre in Propertius 2.8 and 2.9

- 15: Micaela Janan: "Beyond good and Evil": Tarpeia and Philosophy in the Feminine (4.4)

- 16: Paul Allen Miller: Why Propertius is a Woman

- WORKS CITED

- Bibliography

Über Autor(innen)

Greene, Ellen
Ellen Greene is the Joseph Paxton Presidential Professor of Classics at the University of Oklahoma. She has published numerous books and articles on Greek and Latin love poetry.

Welch, Tara S.
Tara Welch is an Associate Professor of Classics at the University of Kansas. She has published a number of articles on Latin poetry and a book on Propertius.