Complete Elegies of Sextus Propertius
The Roman poet Propertius is best known as the writer who perfected the Latin love elegy, a technical as much as a psychological and cultural feat. Propertius has been admired for both his metrical genius and the modernity of his narrative flow.
Many of the poems here pay tribute to Cynthia, Propertius''s romantic obsession, but the scope of these 107 elegies is broad. Propertius''s poetry offers ...
The Roman poet Propertius is best known as the writer who perfected the Latin love elegy, a technical as much as a psychological and cultural feat. Propertius has been admired for both his metrical genius and the modernity of his narrative flow.
Many of the poems here pay tribute to Cynthia, Propertius''s romantic obsession, but the scope of these 107 elegies is broad. Propertius''s poetry offers ...
