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A. M. Keith, Propertius, Poet of Love and Leisure

A. M. Keith, Propertius, Poet of Love and Leisure

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 A. M. Keith, Propertius, Poet of Love and Leisure, London, Duckworth, coll. "Classical Literature & Society series", nov. 2008, 192p.


ISBN: 9780715634530

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InPropertius: Poet of Love and Leisure, Alison Keith explores Propertius'elegiac poetry in the context of early imperial Roman society.Examining a variety of themes associated with both Propertian poetics(such as genre theory, poetic models, the girlfriend, the rival) andthe poet's social context within the early Augustan principate (such asRoman imperialism, the elite male cursus honorum, Augustus' buildingprojects) she offers a synthetic overview of Propertius' achievement inhis four books of elegies. She considers the neglected relationship ofrhetoric to Propertian elegiac poetics, as well as Propertius' debt tothe classical literary tradition, and explores themes in the corpusthat reflect the Augustan imperial context in which Propertius livedand wrote.

Arguing for neither a pro- nor an anti-Augustanismon display in Propertian elegy, Keith brings to light the multiple waysin which Roman imperial rule, the new pax Augusta, and new forms ofelite Roman political competition intersect in and inform Propertius'poetry. The volume contributes to our understanding of both Latinliterature and Augustan culture in its sustained exploration ofrefractions of the Roman ‘imperialist enterprise' in Propertius'elegiac poetry.

 A.M. Keith is Professor and Chair, Department of Classics, University of Toronto. She is the author of The Play of Fictions: Studies in Ovid's Metamorphoses Book 2 (1992) and Engendering Rome: Women in Latin Epicin the Cambridge series ‘Roman Literature and its Contexts' (2000), andhas written extensively on the intersection of gender and genre inLatin literature.