Buch, Englisch, 488 Seiten, Format (B × H): 162 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 717 g
Buch, Englisch, 488 Seiten, Format (B × H): 162 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 717 g
Reihe: Lockert Library of Poetry in Translation
ISBN: 978-0-691-11582-5
Verlag: Princeton University Press
The Roman poet Propertius is best known as the writer who perfected the Latin love elegy, a technical as much as a psychological and cultural feat. Propertius has been admired for both his metrical genius and the modernity of his narrative flow.Many of the poems here pay tribute to Cynthia, Propertius's romantic obsession, but the scope of these 107 elegies is broad. Propertius's poetry offers a fascinating look into life in the Augustan age, addressing social, political, and historical subjects. A contemporary of Virgil and Horace, Propertius has influenced scores of poets--from Ovid to Housman to Pound.His poetry appears here for the first time in a dual-language edition with the translations facing the original Latin. Rendered into English by a poet who is also one of the nation's pre-eminent Propertius experts, the volume brings Propertius's difficult mix of vernacular and high literary allusion into contemporary language.Cynthia was the first. She caught me with her eyes, a fool
who had never before been touched by desires.
Love cast down my look of constant pride,
and he pressed on my head with his feet,
until he taught me to despise chaste girls,
perversely, and to live without plan.
Already, it's been a whole year that the frenzy hasn't stopped,
when, for all that, the gods are against me.
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Acknowledgments xiii
Preserving the Metaphor: Translating Propertius by Vincent Katz xv
BOOK ONE
1.1 "Cynthia was the first. She caught me with her eyes" 3
1.2 "nude Love doesn't love artifice in beauty" 7
1.3 "although a pair commanded me, gripped with lust" 11
1.4 "Cynthia is tried by no curse more gravely / than when grace abandons her" 15
1.5 "she comes with a price" 19
1.6 "I wasn't born to praise or fighting" 23
1.7 "This is how my life's used up" 27
1.8 A "Can your tender feet brave the frosts?" 29
1.8 B "Rare Cynthia is mine!" 31
1.9 "I told you how love would be, and you laughed" 33
1.10 "not light is the medicine in my words" 37
1.11 "in the Bay of Naples no love is safe" 41
1.12 "Cynthia was the first, Cynthia will be the last" 45
1.13 "She will be punishment for the despised pain of all of them" 47
1.14 "I'll despise Alcinous' gifts" 51
1.15 "be whatever you want, just not alien" 53
1.16 "Once I was opened to great triumphs" 57
1.17 "God damn him! who first prepared ship and sail" 61
1.18 "let the rocks be full of your name" 65
1.19 "There, whatever I'll be, I'll always be called your image" 69
1.20 "You've been warned, Gallus: protect your love" 71
1.21 "Gallus. / tried to escape unknown hands-but was not able" 75
1.22 "What class I am and from where" 77
BOOK TWO
2.1 "The girl alone erects my genius" 81
2.2 "Love got the better of me" 87
2.3 "You are the first Roman girl to recline at Jove's table" 89
2.4 "Let him like boys, if he will be my friend" 95
2.5 "this verse, Cynthia, will be your pallor" 97
2.6 "A wife never, never will a friend lead me astray" 101
2.7 "conquered nations are worth nothing in love" 105
2.8 "Are you going to die then, Propertius, still so young?" 107
2.9 A "My blood will be your greatest triumph" 111
2.9 B "I. / would not shrink from death, as long as you too die" 115
2.10 "it's time to refresh Helicon with other choruses" 117
2.11 "Let others write about you, or you will be unknown" 121
2.12 "He was the first to see that lovers live without logic" 123
2.13 A "may it please me to have recited in the arms of an educated girl" 125
2.13 B "My procession will be grand enough if it contains my three chapbooks" 127
2.14 "one more night like that, and I'll be immortal" 131
2.15 "With such varied embrace we exchange positions!" 135
2.16 "Can just anyone purchase love with gifts?" 141
2.17 "Nothing on earth is harder than the life of the lover" 147
2.18 A "If you've seen something, always deny you've seen it!" 149
2.18 B "Aurora did not despise Tithonus' aging" 151
2.18 C "Have you gone nuts? You imitate the painted Britons?" 153
2.19 "without me you'll experience only bleak fields" 155
2.20 "I desist not easily, nor rashly do I begin" 159
2.21 "that pretty boyfriend of yours has a wife!" 163
2.22 A "Everywhere I go, I get lucky" 165
2.22 B "If you're tough, say no: if not, come on!" 169
2.23 "To hell with them who keep their portals shut!" 171
2.24 A "it should be no wonder to you I seek out cheap girls" 173
2.24 B "the kind of cheap gifts that glitter on the Via Sacra" 175
2.24 C "Just now you were praising me and reading my poems" 177
2.25 "that beauty will become, through my books, the most famous" 181
2.26 A "I saw you in a dream, my love, in a shipwreck" 185
2.26 B "I hope she never says, 'Poet, get out of my bed' " 187
2.26 C "A single plank will be enough to hold two lovers" 189
2.27 "Our head again tossed into the tumult, we moan" 193
2.28 A "A big mouth and beauty brought you to this" 195
2.28 B "The twisted rhombuses and their magic incantation have failed" 199
2.28 C "Neither beauty nor fortune is permanent" 201
2.29 A "a band of little boys. suddenly appeared" 203
2.29 B "from that moment on, I haven't had a happy night" 205
2.30 A "even though you may sin, he is a forgiving god" 207
2.30 B "Can it be wrong to live for one woman, cont
