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Ohio State University Press, 2005. Hardcover. New. New hardcover in glossy case wraps. Pages are clean and free of marks or underlining. 8vo. (6 x 0.8 x 9 inches) Includes author's notes, bibliography, index, and figures. 240 pp. Fast shipping in a secure book box mailer with tracking. Throughout its history, the city of Rome has inspired writers to describe its majesty, to situate themselves within its sweeping landscape, and to comment upon its contribution to their own identity. The Roman elegiac poet Propertius was one such author. This final published collection, issued in 16 BCE, has been traditionally read as an abandonment by Propertius of his earlier flippant love poems for a more mature engagement with Roman public life or else a comical send-up of imperial policies as embodied in Rome's public buildings. The relationship between poet and city is complicated at every turn with the presence in the background of the emperor Augustus, whose sustained artistic patronage of Roman monuments…
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Elegiac Cityscape: Propertius & the Meaning of Roman Monuments Hardcover - 2005 - 1st Edition
by Tara S. Welch
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- Title Elegiac Cityscape: Propertius & the Meaning of Roman Monuments
- Author Tara S. Welch
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition number 1st
- Edition 1
- Pages 240
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Ohio State University Press
- Date 2005-11
- Illustrated Yes
- ISBN 9780814210093 / 0814210090
- Weight 1.05 lbs (0.48 kg)
- Dimensions 9 x 6 x 0.8 in (22.86 x 15.24 x 2.03 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects Masculinity in literature, Imperialism in literature
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2005012368
- Dewey Decimal Code 874.01
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