Propertius, Greek Myth, and Virgil

This volume offers a strikingly innovative account of Propertius'' relationship with Virgil, positing a keen rivalry between two of the greatest poets of Latin literature, contemporaries within the circle of Maecenas. It begins by examining all of the references to Greek mythology in Propertius'' first book; these passages emerge as strongly intertextual in nature, providing a way for the poet to ...