Sextus Propertius

Author of Elegies

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About the Author

Propertius was deprived of his Umbrian estate in the confiscation of the civil war. He applied his rhetorical education not to the courts, but to poetry. His first book of elegies to "Cynthia" won him the patronage of Maecenas and established his reputation as a passionate, witty, self-absorbed, show more and learned poet. The three books that followed invoke Cynthia, but also carry tributes to Maecenas, to Roman greatness, addresses to friends, and antiquarian fragments. (Bowker Author Biography) show less

Includes the names: Properz, Properzio, Properci,, Propertius, Propertius, Propertius, Sesto Properzio, Sextus Propertius, Sextius Propertius, Sexto Aurelio Propercio, Sextus Arelius Propertius, Sextus Aurelius Propertius, Propertius (Trans. John Warden), Sexti Properti (Sextus Propertius), Jr. (ed.); Propertius L. Richardson, John (Translator) Propertius; Warden, PROPERTIUS / WATTS A. E. (TRANSLATOR)

Image credit: Propertius and Cynthia at Tivoli by Auguste Jean Baptiste Vinchon

Works by Sextus Propertius

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Elegies (1972) 722 copies, 8 reviews

Carmina (1954) 228 copies, 1 review

Elegies: Book I (1961) 104 copies

Elegies: Book IV (1979) 70 copies

Elegies: Book II (1967) 24 copies

Select Elegies of Propertius (1958) 24 copies

Elegies: Book III (1966) 23 copies

Elegías (1989) 4 copies

The "Monobiblios" [i.e. "Monobiblos"] of Propertius : an account of the first book of Propertius, consisting of a text,… (1977) 4 copies

Elegie. Libri III-IV (Vol. 2) (2022) 3 copies

Elegie. Libri I-II (Vol. 1) (2021) 3 copies

Poesie a Cinzia (2012) 3 copies

Propertius, Cynthia: Een Romeinse romance (2023) 2 copies

Elegies: Books I-II 2 copies

Select Elegies of Propertius 2 copies

Sämtliche Gedichte: Lat. /Dt. (2005) 2 copies

Propertius: Elegies (Classical Studies) 2 copies

Propertius. With an English Translation by H E Butler. (1962) 2 copies

Elegie 2 copies

Properti elegiarum libri IV: (Kartonierte Ausgabe) (German Edition) 2 copies

Elegias (2002) 2 copies

Elegies (1946) 1 copy

LLIBRE PRIMER D'ELEGIES (2004) 1 copy

[Elegiae. Utvalg]. Til Cynthia : elegier på danske vers / Sextus Propertius ; af Ole Meyer. (2021) 1 copy

Cynthia (2023) 1 copy

Sex. Propertii Elegiarum: Liber Secundus cum Prolegomenis, Conspectu Librorum et Commentationum ad IV libros Propertii… 1 copy

Select Elegies of Propertius (Latin Edition) (2012) 1 copy

Propertius: Elegies Book I, II, III 1 copy

Elegie 2 volumi 1 copy

Tibullo, Properzio, Ovidio. Antologia della poesia elegiaca 1 copy

Die Elegien des Sextus Propertius Teil 1 Buch 1 und 2 / [Propertius, Sextus ; Rothstein, Maximilian] 1 copy

Elegíes 1 copy, 1 review

Select elegies. Edited, with introd., notes and appendices by J.P. Postgate 1 copy

Elegies: Books III-IV 1 copy

Sex. Propertii Elegiarum: Liber Secundus I (1962) 1 copy

Elegiarum liber secundus. Cum prolegomenis, conspectu librorum et commentationum ad 4 libros Propertii pertinentium… 1 copy

Properz und Tibull Liebeselegien 1 copy

Sexti Properti Elegiarum libri IV (Bibliotheca scriptorum Graecorum et Romanorum Teubneriana) (Latin Edition) 1 copy

Propertius 2.29 [in Latin] 1 copy

Eligiarum Libri Quatuor, Sextus Aurelius Propertius Cum nova textus recensione, argumentisque et commentatio novo… 1 copy

Liebeselegien; Lateinisch und Deutsch. Neu herausg. und übers. von Georg Luck 1 copy

Properce: El©♭gies 1 copy

Le elegie 1 copy

HIl Ilibro di Cinzia (Elegie 1.): a cura di Paolo Fedeli e Rosalba Dimundo (1995) 1 copy

Die Gedichte des Properz 1 copy

Propertius, Books 1-4 1 copy

Arena of Lust Pb (1996) 1 copy

Liebeselegien. Carmina (2011) 1 copy

Elegie di Properzio recate in terza rima da Mario Pieri corcirese 1 copy

Elegiae, Volume 1 (Italian Edition) (2011) 1 copy

Elegien Lateinisch und deutsch (2014) 1 copy

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Associated Works

World Poetry: An Anthology of Verse from Antiquity to Our Time (1998) — Contributor — 469 copies, 1 review

Answering Back: Living Poets Reply to the Poetry of the Past (2007) — Contributor — 109 copies

Roman Readings (1958) — Author — 68 copies

Games of Venus: An Anthology of Greek and Roman Erotic Verse from Sappho to Ovid (The New Ancient World) (1991) — Contributor — 50 copies

Poesia d'amore latina (1998) — Contributor — 12 copies

Latĳnse lyriek : een keuze van vertalingen uit Catullus, Horatius, Tibullus en Propertius (1949) — Contributor — 5 copies

Latijnse geschiedschrijvers : bloemlezing uit de werken van Sallustius, Caesar, Livius en Tacitus (1952) — Contributor — 5 copies

Griechisch-römische Lyrik in klassischen und neuen Übersetzungen (1958) — Contributor — 4 copies

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Common Knowledge

Legal name: Sextus Propertius
Other names: Properci
Birthdate: c. 55 BCE
Date of death: c. 16 BCE
Gender: male
Nationality: Roman Empire
Places of residence: Assisium, Umbria, Roman Empire (birth)
Rome, Roman Empire (death)
Occupations: poet

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Propertius: Elegies I-IV (American Philological… by Sextus Propertius

I really don't like Propertius, but you can't blame the book for that, which has good introductions and commentary (though no dictionary in the back).

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saholc | Jul 29, 2009 |

The Elegies of Propertius, with Notes by Propertius

Contains his famously dramatic and obsessive elegies to, for, and about Cynthia. In matters of the heart, not much has changed since 50 BCE in Rome.

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a211423 | 7 other reviews | Sep 4, 2006 |

The poems of Sextus Propertius by Sextus Propertius

This book got me my first bookstore job: the manager and I discussed various versions of Propertius, then he said "Would you by any chance be interested in working here?"

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languagehat | 7 other reviews | Sep 22, 2005 |

Propertius : books I-IV by Propertius

Edition: // Descr: xvi, 363 p. 17 cm. // Series: The Loeb Classical Library Call No. { 874 P94-L 1 } Series Edited by T.E. Page With an English Translation by H.E. Butler Contains Latin and English Versions and Bibliography. // //

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ColgateClassics | 7 other reviews | Oct 26, 2012 |

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