The bond between love and death has long been recognised as a defining characteristic of the elegies of Propertius, but scholars have rarely clarified how or to what degree Propertius differed from other love poets in associating these themes. In this book, Dr Papanghelis traces the radical way in which Propertius dealt with amorous and morbid fantasies in his poems. He argues that the modes of erotic expression used in the elegies are fundamentally unconventional, to the point that the definitions of love and death are interdependent. This book offers a detailed reading of some of the most stimulating and problematic of Propertius' elegies, offering fresh insight on the question of the poet's sensuous temperament and the significance of the love–death relationship in his works.
The definition of the genre itself, though not the main topic, is often an underlying concern of the European and US classicists who present 23 essays. Among their topics are the herdsman in Greek tho
This 2nd edition of the Companion to Apollonius Rhodius, comprising now nineteen articles by leading scholars from Europe and America, aims at giving an up-to-date outline of the scholarly discussion
European and US classicists discuss third-century BCE Hellenistic Egyptian poet Apollonius and his major work Argonauatica, the second edition incorporating new scholarship at least partly inspired by
