Introspection and Engagement in Propertius: A Study of Book 3

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Cambridge University Press, Apr 12, 2018 - History - 241 pages
Cover -- Half-title -- Series information -- Title page -- Copyright information -- Table of contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- Prologue -- Starting Points -- Reception of Book 3 -- Contextual Considerations -- Reading Propertius Book 3 -- Textual Notes -- Chapter 1 Turning Elegy Upside Down -- Elegiac Expansion - 3.1 -- From Amor to Roma -- Erotic Regression - 3.2 -- Recapitulation and Coda - 3.3 -- Chapter 2 Seeking Fides in Poets and Poetry -- The Metapoetry of Propertian Love -- Elegiac Narration and the Fictional Contract -- Constructing Fides -- Deconstructing Fides -- Chapter 3 Thematic Experimentation -- 3.9 - Addressing Maecenas -- 3.10 and the Recovery of Theme -- A 'Birthday' Poem -- The Birth of Cynthia -- Propertius 3.11 -- Exemplarity and Elegy's Ideological Tensions -- Chapter 4 Marriage and the Elegiac Woman -- Setting (Us) Up -- (Re- )claiming Augustan Fides -- The Unlikely Orthodoxy of Propertian Elegy -- Chapter 5 Delays and Destinations -- In Medias Res -- Postponing 'the End' -- Chapter 6 A Hymn to Bacchus -- Bacchic Oppositions -- Bacchic Integration -- Looking Ahead to Caesar -- Chapter 7 In Lament for Marcellus -- Returning to Baiae -- Marcellus and the Gens Claudia -- Propertius' Roman Elegy -- Chapter 8 Renewing an Elegiac Contract -- Faithful Lovers and Elegiac Puellae -- Being Faithful in Literary Love -- Closure and Renewal -- Chapter 9 Breaking up (with) Cynthia -- An Elegiac Ending -- Catullan Background -- Ovidian Reflection -- A Romantic Ending -- Epilogue -- Bibliography -- General Index -- Index Locorum
 

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Jonathan Wallis is a Lecturer in Classics at the University of Tasmania. Jonathan has published numerous articles on Latin elegy and Roman culture; he also maintains a keen interest in Latin pedagogy, and at University of Tasmania has led the development of an innovative suite of digital materials to bring Latin language and literature to as wide an audience as possible.

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