Brill's Companion to Propertius

Erscheinungsjahr 2011
ISBN: 978-90-04-20586-4
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, 476 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 231 mm, Gewicht: 1740 g

Reihe: Brill's Paperback Collection / Classical Studies

The present volume provides a comprehensive guide to one of the most difficult authors of classical antiquity. All the major aspects of Propertius' work, its themes, the poetical technique, its sources and models, as well as the history of Propertian scholarship and the vexed problems of textual criticism, are dealt with in contributions by Joan Booth, James Butrica, Francis Cairns, Elaine Fantham, Paolo Fedeli, Adrian Hollis, Peter Knox, Robert Maltby, Tobias Reinhardt and Richard Tarrant; due space is also given to the reception of the author from antiquity and the renaissance (Simona … read more

Zielgruppe

Students of Classics, all those interested in Classical Antiquity, European Literature.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Günther, Hans-Christian

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Klassische Literaturwissenschaft Klassische Lateinische Literatur

Über Autor(innen)

Hans-Christian Günther, Prof. Dr., is Professor of Classics at the Albert-Ludwigs-University of Freiburg. He has published on Greek and Latin literature, ancient philosophy, Byzantine and Modern Greek studies, including Überlegungen zur Entstehung von Vergils Aeneis (1996) and Quaestiones Propertianae (1997).