propertius

Vertaald door Paul Claes Onder redactie van Vincent Hunink ‘Mijn vriendin is mijn inspiratiebron,’ schreef de Romeinse dichter Sextus Propertius.

The passionate and dramatic elegies of Propertius (c. 50-soon after 16 BCE) gained him a reputation as one of Rome's finest love poets. He portrays th

Of all the great classical love poets, Propertius is surely one of those with most immediate appeal for the twentieth century reader. His poetry centr

Propertius, though his works are small in volume, is one of the foremost poets of the Augustan age and his writing has a certain appeal to modern tast

In this edition of Propertius Book IV, Camps follows the general lines of his earlier edition of Book I (Cambridge, 1960).

Propertius' fourth book is his most challenging and innovative. It disrupts genre; dislocates time and order; and meditates on gender, perception and

Propertius' fourth book is his most challenging and innovative. It disrupts genre; dislocates time and order; and meditates on gender, perception and

The Roman poet Propertius is best known as the writer who perfected the Latin love elegy. A contemporary of Virgil and Horace, Propertius has influenc

Propertius' celebration of his love for Cynthia broke new ground in Latin poetry: sensuous, passionate, witty, yet complex and allusive. This edition

Camps presents, without concealing difficulties and uncertainties, a fairly conservative but readable and coherent text, together with such annotation

Of all the great classical love poets, Propertius is surely one of those with most immediate appeal for the twentieth-century reader. His poetry centr

Patrick Worsnip's translations of Propertius rise out of the Latin and brilliantly recreate the poet's voice, his life and loves, and his period when

Edited with Introduction and Notes by W. A. Camps

Edited with Introduction and Notes by W. A. Camps