Elegies [Audiobook] download free by Sextus Propertius
- Listen audiobook: Elegies
- Author: Sextus Propertius
- Release date: 1990/3/26
- Publisher: HARVARD UNIVERSITY PRESS
- Language: English
- Genre or Collection: Poetry and Drama
- ISBN: 9780674990203
- Rating: 7.8 of 10
- Votes: 605
- Review by: Briella Washburn
- Review rating: 7.07 of 10
- Review Date: 2018/10/28
- Duration: 6H34M42S in 256 kbps (105.2 MB)
- Date of creation of the audiobook: 2018-09-07
- You can listen to this audiobook in formats: WAV, MP3, WMA, MPEG4, AIFF, FLAC (compression ZIP, CAB, AZW3, RAR)
- Total pages original book: 526
- Includes a PDF summary of 59 pages
- Duration of the summary (audio): 43M20S (11.8 MB)
- Description or summary of the audiobook: The passionate and dramatic elegies of Propertius gained him a reputation as one of Rome's finest love poets. Here he portrays the exciting, uneven course of his love affair with Cynthia and tells us much about his contemporaries and the society in which he lives, while in later poems he turns to mythological themes and the legends of early Rome. In this new edition of Propertius, G. P. Goold solves some longstanding questions of interpretation and gives us a faithful and stylish prose translation. His explanatory notes and glossary/index offer steady guidance and a wealth of information. Born in Assisi about 50 BCE, Sextus Propertius moved as a young man to Rome, where he came into contact with a coterie of poets, including Virgil, Tibullus, Horace, and Ovid. Publication of his first book brought immediate recognition and the unwavering support of Maecenas, the influential patron of the Augustan poets. He died perhaps in his mid-thirties, leaving us four books of elegies that have attracted admirers throughout the ages.
- Other categories, genre or collection: Literary Essays, Poetry By Individual Poets, Literary Studies: Classical, Early & Medieval, Literary Studies: Poetry & Poets
- Download servers: Hotfile, Torrent, FreakShare, JumpShare, Mediafire, Google Drive, pyget. Compressed in ZIP, CAB, AZW3, RAR
- Format: Hardback
- Approximate value: 26.93 USD
- Dimensions: 121x171x25.91mm
- Weight: 300g
- Printed by: LOEB
- Published in: Cambridge, Mass, United States
Vote:
