Cynthia : A Companion to the Text of Propertius

Name: Cynthia
Brand: Oxford University Press
SKU: 9780199567829
Price: 18450 KES
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ISBN: 9780199567829

by S. J. Heyworth

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Format Paperback / softback

ISBN-10 0199567824

ISBN-13 9780199567829

Publisher Oxford University Press

Imprint Oxford University Press

Country of Manufacture GB

Country of Publication GB

Publication Date Apr 30th, 2009

Print length 664 Pages

Weight 990 grams

Dimensions 23.10 x 15.80 x 3.50 cms

Product Classification: Latin BCE period – Protohistory Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval Literary studies: classical, early & medieval Literary studies: poetry & poets Literary studies: poetry and poets

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A lucid new commentary on the Latin poet Propertius, consisting of a commentary on the whole corpus and a prose translation which includes alternative versions of ambiguous phrasing. In its clear exposition of technical problems, Cynthia will serve as an introduction to Latin textual criticism in the modern age, and to elegiac poetic style.

Propertius is a poet of the Augustan period, a successor of the great Hellenistic elegiac poets Callimachus and Philitas, and a precursor of Ovid. His account of his fictionalized affair with his beloved alter ego Cynthia is the purest expression of the spirit of love elegy, setting them as a pair against war, epic, and (apparently) Augustus himself. This is an author read by virtually all students of Classical Latin. Cynthia provides a lucid attempt to understand and correct the many difficulties in the transmitted text. It consists of a commentary on the whole corpus, together with a prose translation (including alternative versions of ambiguous phrasing). In its clear exposition of technical problems, the book will serve as an introduction to Latin textual criticism in the modern age, and to elegiac poetic style.

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