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Golden Cynthia

Essays on Propertius

Sharon L James editor

Format:Hardback

Publisher:The University of Michigan Press

Published:18th Oct '22

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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 the Roman state under the new monarch Augustus, and more. These essays, by well-known scholars of Roman elegy, offer new ways of reading Propertius’ topics, attitudes, and poetics.

This book begins with two distinguished essays by the late Barbara Flaschenriem, whose work on Propertius remains influential. The other contributions, offered in honor of her, are by Diane Rayor, Andrew Feldherr, Ellen Greene, Lowell Bowditch, Alison Keith, and volume editor Sharon L. James. These essays explore topics including Propertian didacticism, dream interpretation, visual art and formalism, sex and violence, Roman imperialism and its connection to the elegiac puella, and Propertius’ engagement, in Book 4, with Vergil’s poetry.

"Readers of Propertius and of Roman elegy will learn much from the rich essays in this volume, both those by Flaschenriem and those in her honor."
Bryn Mawr Classical Review

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"The recent volume edited by Sharon James, Golden Cynthia: Essays on Propertius, demonstrates the merits and limitations of a methodology based on psychoanalytic interpretative categories, gender studies, and interdisciplinarity, declined in the relationship between poetry and figurative art...the contributions collected in this volume undoubtedly go in the direction of broadening the readership, a highly topical issue for disciplines such as philology and, in particular, for authors less known to the general publics such as Propertius."
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ISBN: 9780472133246

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222 pages