{"product_id":"propertius-book-i-book-robert-j-baker-9780856687303","title":"Propertius: Book I","description":"What was it like to be in love in Rome? Th 22 poems of Sextus  Propertius' first book of elegies (publisehed in 28 B.C.) offer  an answer. Defiantly un-Roman in his devotion to love for his  Cynthia and to his art, Propertius writes with a strangely modern  voice - passionate, wry, self-scrutinising and ironic. But it is  a voice that has been shaped and controlled by a literary  tradition already centries old. This revised edition of Book I  provides, in a verse translation which attempts to simulate the  dicipline and contraints of the hetameter-pentameter alternation  in the elegiac couplets of the original poems, a handily  self-contained Augustan poetry book- the earliest extant book of  Latin love-elegy - to a readership without Latin. The  Introduction and Commentary furnish the reader with explanations  of the literary, mythological, historical and geographical  allusions necessary for an understanding of the poems.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49949178560785,"sku":"GOR008465535","price":26.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0856687308.jpg?v=1789469012","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/products\/propertius-book-i-book-robert-j-baker-9780856687303","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}