Propertius and the Virgilian Sensibility

Auteur

DONNCHA O'ROURKE is Senior Lecturer in Classics at the University of Edinburgh. He specializes in Latin literature of the late Roman republic and early empire, especially elegiac and didactic poetry. He is editor of Approaches to Lucretius (Cambridge, 2020). His co-edited volumes include Classics and Irish Politics: 1916-2016 (Oxford, 2020).

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"Studies Propertius' final collection of elegies as the earliest concerted response to the poetic career of Virgil in its totality. Reveals an elegiac Virgil as much as it does an epicizing Propertius, and enlarges familiar paradigms of allusion and intertextuality with implications for how literary and textual criticism are practised"--

Contenu

Introduction: Virgil and the Propertian sensibility; 2. Rus in Urbe: Virgilian pastoral in Propertius 4; 3. Shades of Dido: the Virgilian women of Propertius 4; 4. The Shield of Propertius: Virgilian histories in Propertius 4; 5. Romani patria Callimachi: Hellenistic poets at Rome; 6. Propertius' Epic Designs: the Virgilian architecture of Propertius 4; 7. Conclusions: Propertius and the Virgilian sensibility.