Propertius : a Hellenistic poet on love and death
This book offers a detailed reading of some of the most stimulating and problematic of Propertius' elegies, offering fresh insight on the question of the poet's sensuous temperament and the significance of the love–death relationship in his works.
Print Book, English, 1987
Cambridge University Press, Cambridge [Cambridgeshire], 1987
Criticism, interpretation, etc
xii, 236 pages ; 24 cm
9780521323147, 0521323142
13762580
Preface; Abbreviations; 1. Introductory; 2. nostis puer haesit ocellis: the lessons of 1.19; 3. in amore mori: witches and lovers; 4. in amore mori: the shipwreck; 6. in amore mori: crime passionnel; 7. in amore mori: minor instances in Book 2; 8. Strange beauty: a reading of 4.7; Bibliography; Indexes.
Rev. and expanded version of thesis (Ph. D.)--Cambridge University
Includes indexes