What was it like to be in love in Rome? The 22 poems of Sextus Propertius' first book of elegies (published in 28 B.C.) offer an answer. Defiantly un-Roman in his devotion to love for his Cynthia and to his art, Propertius writes with a strangely modern voice passionate, wry, self-scrutinising and ironic. But it is a voice that has been shaped and controlled by a literary tradition already centuries old.
Robert J. Baker has studied at Edinburgh University and at the University of New England. He has been teaching Latin, Greek and Ancient History for the last 35 years in the Universities of Tasmania and New England, and has just recently retired as Associate Professor from the latter. He is presently an Honorary Fellow in the School of Classics, History and Religion there.
208pp.; (2001) cl 729 4 $59.99 / £35; pb 730 8 $28 / £16.50
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CONTENTS Preface to the First Edition INTRODUCTION PARALLEL LATIN TEXT AND ENGLISH TRANSLATION COMMENTARY Indexes |
SOME COMMENTS BY REVIEWERS
"Much thought has clearly gone into the way in which the
commentary can illustrate how the translation has attempted to
cope with problems of interpretation in the Latin." Oxford
University Press 1994
"Baker gives us a lucid Introduction, parallel text and translation and a very impressive, learned and wide-ranging commentary. In short, the book deserves to be read and enjoyed." LACT 2002
