Golden Cynthia : essays on Propertius / [edited by] Sharon L. James.

"The elegiac poet Propertius responds in his verse to the complex changes that Rome underwent in his period, taking on numerous topics including poetic and sexual rivalry, visual art, violence, inability to control the elusive mistress, imperialism, colonialism, civil war, the radical new shape of t...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Flaschenriem, Barbara Lynn (Author, honouree,)
Other Authors: James, Sharon L. (Editor)
Rayor, Diane J. (writer of foreword.)
Language:English
Latin
Language and/or Writing System:
In English, with Latin passages accompanied by English translations.
Published: Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, 2022.
Subjects:
Propertius, Sextus > Criticism and interpretation.
Propertius, Sextus.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Literary criticism.
Essays.
Genre:
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Literary criticism.
Essays.
Physical Description:ix, 211 pages ; 24 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Foreword / Diane Rayor
  • Introduction / Sharon L. James
  • The beloved as dreamer and objet d'art: Propertius 1.3, 2.29a, and 2.29b / Barbara Flaschenriem
  • Scenes of instruction: Propertius 3.3 and 4.7 / Barbara Flaschenriem
  • Moving parts: the new form(alism) of Prop. 2.12 / Andrew Feldherr
  • Sex and violence in Propertius / Ellen Greene
  • Roman cultural imperialism and Cynthia's Imperium Sine Fine / Lowell Bowditch
  • Vergilian loci in Propertius book 4.1 / Alison Keith
  • Blandi praecepta Properti: what Propertius teaches / Sharon L. James.