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The passionate and dramatic elegies of Propertius gained him a reputation as one of Rome's finest love poets. Here he portrays the exciting, uneven course of his love affair with Cynthia and tells us much about his contemporaries and the society in which he lives, while in later poems he turns to mythological themes and the legends of early Rome. In this new edition of Propertius, G. P. Goold solves some longstanding questions of interpretation and gives us a faithful and stylish prose translation. His explanatory notes and glossary/index offer steady guidance and a wealth of information.
Born in Assisi about 50 BCE, Sextus P
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Manufacturer: Harvard University Press
Release date: 1 November 1990
ISBN-10 : 067499020X | ISBN-13: 9780674990203
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Release date: 1 November 1990
ISBN-10 : 067499020X | ISBN-13: 9780674990203
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