The Politics of Desire: Propertius IV

by Micaela Janan

Book Overview

Propertius (ca. 54 b.c.--ca. 2 b.c.) was a Roman poet who composed four compelling books of elegies in the chaotic years surrounding Rome's transition from republic to empire. The first three of these books revolve mostly around a tormented love affair with a woman called Cynthia. The fourth book of poetry rests on more diverse subject matter and is notoriously the most opaque and elusive. In The Politics of Desire, Micaela Janan radically reassesses...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520223217
• ISBN13: 9780520223219
• Release Date: December 2000
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 255 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"