Propertius: Elegies III

by Propertius, W.A. Camps (Editor)

W.A. Camps' four-volume edition of Propertius' Elegies was originally published by Cambridge University Press. Books II and III were later reissued by Bristol Classical Press, now an imprint of Bloomsbury. The Latin text is accompanied by introductions, apparatus criticus and useful commentary.

Paperback

First published June 1, 1991

About the author

Sextus Aurelius Propertius was a Latin elegiac poet who was born around 50–45 BCE in Mevania (though other cities of Umbria also claim this dignity—Hespillus, Ameria, Perusia, Assisium) and died shortly after 15 BCE.

Propertius' surviving work comprises four books of Elegies. He was friends with the poets Gallus and Virgil, and had with them as his patron Maecenas, and through Maecenas, the emperor Augustus.

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[James Carrigy · Rating 4 out of 5]

8/10

Favourite Poems: "Lygdamus as a go-between","Violence a sign of love", "The midnight summons", "Lost, the poet's writing tablets".

It's his freakiest collection yet!