Bowditch’s commentary aims to make Propertian elegy—with its challenging syntax, wide-ranging use of myth, and novel use of diction—accessible to more readers, and reveals Propertius as a poet who defined a uniquely Roman genre of literature.
Special Features
• Introduction to Propertius, his style, and his elegy’s social and political context and its place within the genre
• 606 lines of unadapted Latin text of eleven complete Propertian elegies from all four volumes of his work: 1.1, 1.3, 2.1, 2.10, 2.16, 2.31, 2.32, 3.3, 3.11, 4.8, 4.9
• Notes at the back and complete vocabulary
• Two maps and five illustrations
• Suggested reading
P. Lowell Bowditch teaches a wide range of language and literature courses on epic, tragedy, gender and sexuality in antiquity, and the Augustan era at the University of Oregon. Bowditch received her BA from the University of California at Berkeley and her PhD in comparative literature from Brown University. Her research focuses on the interface between literature and socio-political relations, with a particular emphasis on literary patronage and issues of gender and sexuality in the Augustan poets. Bowditch is the author of Horace and the Gift Economy of Patronage (Los Angeles and Berkeley, 2001), A Propertius Reader: Eleven Selected Elegies (Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers, 2014) and of articles on Ovid, Propertius, Horace and issues of translation.