Propertius by A M Keith

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Explores Propertius' elegiac poetry in the context of early imperial Roman society. Examining a variety of themes associated with both Propertian poetics and the poet's social context within the early Augustan principate, this work offers an overview of Propertius' achievement in his four books of elegies.

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Propertius by A M Keith

Explores Propertius' elegiac poetry in the context of early imperial Roman society. Examining a variety of themes associated with both Propertian poetics and the poet's social context within the early Augustan principate, this work offers an overview of Propertius' achievement in his four books of elegies.
Alison Keith is Professor and Chair, Department of Classics, University of Toronto. She is the author of "The Play of Fictions: Studies in Ovid's Metamorphoses Book 2" (1992) and "Engendering Rome: Women in Latin Epic" in the Cambridge series 'Roman Literature and its Contexts' (2000), and has written extensively on the intersection of gender and genre in Latin literature.
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ISBN 13 9780715634530
ISBN 10 0715634534
Title Propertius
Author A M Keith
Series Classical Literature And Society
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Paperback
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Year published 2008-11-10
Number of pages 226
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