TY - BOOK ID - 77899327 TI - Propertius in love : the elegies AU - Propertius, Sextus. AU - Slavitt, David R. PY - 2002 SN - 1282359495 9786612359491 0520935845 1597348368 9780520935846 0585419612 9780585419619 9780520228788 0520228782 9780520228795 0520228790 9781282359499 9781597348362 6612359498 PB - Berkeley : University of California Press, DB - UniCat KW - Love poetry, Latin KW - Elegiac poetry, Latin KW - Propertius, Sextus KW - Propertius, Sextus Aurelius KW - Properzio, Sesto KW - Properce KW - Properzio, S. KW - Propercio KW - Propercio, Sexto Aurelio KW - Properz KW - Propert︠s︡īĭ, Sekst KW - Propertios KW - Properci, Sext KW - Propercij KW - academic. KW - ancient poetry. KW - ancient world. KW - classical poetry. KW - elegies. KW - erotic poetry. KW - human condition. KW - latin literature. KW - latin poetry. KW - love poetry. KW - mfa. KW - obsession. KW - ovid. KW - poems. KW - poetic forms. KW - poetic. KW - poetry studies. KW - poetry translation. KW - poetry. KW - propertius. KW - relationships. KW - roman history. KW - roman poet. KW - scholarly. KW - sex. KW - sexuality. KW - translation. KW - unrequited love. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77899327 AB - These ardent, even obsessed, poems about erotic passion are among the brightest jewels in the crown of Latin literature. Written by Propertius, Rome's greatest poet of love, who was born around 50 b.c., a contemporary of Ovid, these elegies tell of Propertius' tormented relationship with a woman he calls "Cynthia." Their connection was sometimes blissful, more often agonizing, but as the poet came to recognize, it went beyond pride or shame to become the defining event of his life. Whether or not it was Propertius' explicit intention, these elegies extend our ideas of desire, and of the human condition itself. ER -