Propertius wrote Latin elegiac poetry centred on desire, jealousy, poetry and his turbulent relationship with the woman he calls Cynthia. The four books of Elegies move between intensely personal love poems, mythological comparison and reflections on Rome, patronage and poetic ambition. Propertius often makes emotion feel unstable: devotion can turn into accusation, fantasy or self-dramatisation within a few lines. His poetry is dense, allusive and more difficult than straightforward love lyric. The strongest audience overlap is with readers of Roman elegy, classical love poetry and writers interested in the relationship between erotic obsession, literary persona and Augustan culture. Read more Less
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