Propertius Greek Myth and Virgil Rivalry Allegory and Polemic 1st Edition by Peter Heslin ISBN 978-0199541577 0199541574

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ISBN 10:   0199541574

ISBN 13: 978-0199541577

Author:  Peter J. Heslin

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 book; these passages emerge as strongly intertextual in nature, providing a way for the poet to situate himself with respect to his predecessors, both Greek and Roman. More specifically, myth is also the medium of a sustained polemic with Virgil’s Eclogues, published only a few years earlier. Virgil’s response can be traced in the Georgics, and subsequently, in his second and third books, Propertius continued to use mythology and its relationship to contemporary events as a vehicle for literary polemic. This volume argues that their competition can be seen as exemplifying a revised model for how the poets within Maecenas’ circle interacted and engaged with each other’s work – a model based on rivalry rather than ideological adhesion or subversion – while also painting a revealing picture of how Virgil was viewed by a contemporary in the days before his death had canonized his work as an instant classic. In particular, its novel interpretation offers us a new understanding of Propertius, one of the foundational figures in Western love poetry, and how his frequent references to other poets, especially Gallus and Ennius, take on new meanings when interpreted as responses to Virgil’s changing career.

Table of contents: 

1. The Lover’s Mockumentary

Searching for Gallus

Patronage and Politics

The Umbrian Callimachus

The Text of Propertius

Aphrodite’s Underwear (2.2)

Horace, For Example (Carm. 1.8)

Deviant Exemplarity (2.22a)

2. Programmatics

Of Apples and Arcadia (1.1)

Myth and Ornament (1.2)

The Objectifying Gaze (1.3)

3. Myth and Genre

Against Iambic (1.4)

Antigone and Elegy (1.7)

Amphion vs Orpheus (1.9)

Medea and the Mayfly (1.12)

Love and Money (1.14)

Hysterical Heroines (1.15)

Nasty Nereids (1.17)

Love and Death (1.19)

The Real Gallus (1.13)

4. Against Pastoral

Tender Feet (1.8)

Et in Arcadia Echo (1.18)

Settling for Second Best (2.4)

Hylas Descending (1.20)

Virgil’s Orpheus

5. The Return of Orpheus

Herdsman, Ploughman, Soldier, Sailor (2.1)

Eurydice Recovered (2.7)

Missed Connections, Lost Property (2.10)

Orpheus and Adonis (2.13)

The Resurrection of Orpheus (2.27)

The Muse’s Child (2.30)

Various Poets (2.34)

The Resurrection of Adonis

6. Ennius Redivivus

Troy or Rome? (3.1)

The Polyphemus Paradox (3.2)

Nightmare on Helicon (3.3)

A Hypocritical Epicurean (3.5)

Poet and Patron (3.9)

7. Conclusion

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