Hostname: page-component-586b7cd67f-dsjbd Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-11-22T04:25:26.987Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false
  • English
  • Français

Odyssean Echoes in Propertius IV. 81

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 January 2009

S. Evans
Get access Rights & Permissions [Opens in a new window]

Extract

In iv. i. 64 Propertius calls himself a Roman Callimachus, and it is part of the Callimachean method to echo and mock epic style. There seems to be a good example of this in Book Four, which the commentators appear to have overlooked.

Type
Research Article
Information
Greece & Rome , Volume 18 , Issue 1 , April 1971 , pp. 51 - 53
Copyright
Copyright © The Classical Association 1971

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)

References

page 53 note 1 See Camps, W. A. on that poem, Propertius: Elegies, Book IV (Cambridge, 1965), 115.Google Scholar

page 53 note 2 Though of course iv. 7 makes its bow to aetiology in the description of the cult at Lanuvium.