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Subject(s)

• Propertius, Sextus—Criticism and interpretation [Browse]

Related name

• Günther, Hans Christian [Browse]

Summary note

The present volume provides a comprehensive guide to one of the most difficult authors of classical antiquity. All the major aspects of Propertius' work, its themes, the poetical technique, its sources and models, as well as the history of Propertian scholarship and the vexed problems of textual criticism, are dealt with in contributions by Joan Booth, James Butrica, Francis Cairns, Elaine Fantham, Paolo Fedeli, Adrian Hollis, Peter Knox, Robert Maltby, Tobias Reinhardt and Richard Tarrant. Due space is also given to the reception of the author from antiquity and the renaissance (Simona Gavinelli) up to the modern age (Bernhard Zimmermann). At the centre stands an interpretation of the four transmitted books by Gesine Manuwaldt, Hans-Peter Syndikus, John Kevin Newman, and Hans-Christian Gunther.--Publisher description.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references (pages 429-448) and indexes.

Contents

• Part 1. Propertius : the history of Propertian scholarship
• The history of Propertian scholarship / Paolo Fedeli
• Part 2. The textual tradition of Propertius
• The transmission of the text of Propertius / James Butrica
• Propertian textual criticism and editing / Richard Tarrant
• Part 3. Propertius and the tradition of Greek and Roman poetry
• Propertius and the origins of Latin love-elegy / Francis Cairns
• Propertius and Hellenistic poetry / Adrian Hollis
• Propertius and the neoterics / Peter Knox
• Part 4. The major themes of Propertius' poetry and his poetic technique
• Major themes and motifs in Propertius' love poetry / Robert Maltby
• The image of woman in Propertius' poetry / Elaine Fantham
• Propertius and rhetoric / Tobias Reinhard
• Part 5. An interpretation of Propertius' work
• The first book / Gesine Manuwald
• The second book / Hans Peter Syndikus
• The third book : defining a poetic self / Kevin Newman
• The fourth book / Hans-Christian Günther
• Part 6. The reception of Propertius' poetry
• The reception of Propertius in Late Antiquity and neolatin and renaissance literature / Simona Gavinelli
• The reception of Propertius in the Modern Age : Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's Römanische elegien and Ezra Pound's Homage to Sextus Propertius / Bernhard Zimmermann.

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ISBN

• 9004136827
• 9789004136823

LCCN

2006284204

OCLC

71800022

International Article Number

• 9789004136823

Other standard number

• 99814376772

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