Description

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.

Features

• A new single-volume commentary on the basic text of a major author
• Includes clear and thorough discussions of all unsolved cruces and many previously unacknowledged problems
• Provides a prose translation of the text in which alternative versions take account of ambiguities and uncertainties

Reviews

"[T]he resulting book is extremely useful. His Companion will join the ranks of existing indispensable commentaries."--Niklas Holzberg, Classical World

Product Details

664 pages; ISBN13: 978-0-19-956782-9ISBN10: 0-19-956782-4

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