Rivalry, Allegory, and Polemic
by
Peter J. Heslin
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2018
This volume offers a strikingly innovative account of Propertius' relationship with Virgil, positing a keen rivalry between two of the greatest poets of Latin literature, contemporaries within the circle of Maecenas. It begins by examining all of the references to Greek mythology in Propertius' first...