Propertius: Elegies II

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. Book II, the longest, is commonly regarded as the most difficult. The Latin text is here accompanied by introductions, apparatus criticus and useful commentary.

254 pages, 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.

Reviews

[James Carrigy · Rating 4 out of 5]

8/10

Favourite Poems: "Cheated and locked out", "He defends that choice", "A dream of Cynthia shipwrecked", "Only the lover knows when he will die", "Arrested by Amorini".


Propertius and Cynthia must have been the Lindsey Buckingham and Stevie Nicks of the Ancient Roman literary world.