A Commentary on Propertius Book 3

The most passionate individual and controversial of the Latin love elegists Propertius in Book 3 covers a broad range of subject matter and a vast geographical reach. After books focused on his mistress Cynthia he maintains his elegiac role but expands his range to provide a lover''s commentary on life discussing luxury nudity art the empire and the dangers of travel for profit and war. This detailed commentary uses the text recently published in the Oxford Classical Texts series and sets out to build on the richness of the material in the book by providing clear introductions to the genres the poems explore - the Greek elegy of Callimachus epic tragedy hymn and epigram - and to topics such as patronage philosophy and the images of love as slavery and as warfare.