Sexti Properti Elegi

Name: Sexti Properti Elegi
Brand: Oxford University Press
SKU: 9780198146742
Price: 5400 KES
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ISBN: 9780198146742

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Format Hardback

Book Series Oxford Classical Texts

ISBN-10 0198146744

ISBN-13 9780198146742

Publisher Oxford University Press

Imprint Oxford University Press

Country of Manufacture GB

Country of Publication GB

Publication Date Dec 13th, 2007

Print length 304 Pages

Weight 372 grams

Dimensions 20.30 x 13.30 x 2.30 cms

Product Classification: Latin BCE period – Protohistory Poetry anthologies (various poets)

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A radical new edition of the Augustan poet Propertius, based on the latest research into the manuscript tradition. The English preface contains important comments on the way texts are edited and read. Some important emendations discovered in the papers of A. E. Housman are published here for the first time.

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. The treatment of their love is tender and at times delightfully macabre, in pursuing their love beyond the grave. This is a text read by virtually all students of Classical Latin, and it is now available in a radical new edition, more readable and based on the latest research into the manuscript tradition. This is fully explained in the English preface, which also contains important comments on the way texts are edited and read. Some significant emendations discovered in the papers of A. E. Housman are published here for the first time.

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