Sextus propertius, praeceptor amoris: teaching love, loving poetry by Nicheperovich, N

“…<p>Propertius has been known to teach for as long as he has been read. …”

me iuuat in gremio doctae legisse puellae: mindful reading in the elegies of Propertius by Franklinos, T

“…<p>In a critical climate that privileges the hermeneutic position of a reader of a text over the irretrievable intentions of its author, this thesis challenges the status quo by considering the elegist Propertius as his own first reader. Through an exploration of what I have called 'mindful reading'—how Propertius appears to engage intratextually with his own poetic material, recasting parts of it lexically and thematically—, alongside his interaction with the works of his peers and predecessors and wider cultural discourses, we, as readers, are able to appreciate how he may have understood aspects of his own poetry at a given moment. …”

Augustan accounts of the regal period by Fox, M, Fox, M. A.

“…Elegy had traditionally rejected history, but in Propertius IV history is included, much of it regal. …”

The Ovidian love elegy in England by Carey, J

“…<p>This thesis begins by outlining the origins of the elegy as a literary form, passing from the fragmentary remains of the Greek elegy, and of Roman love—poets before Catullus, to a brief discussion of the poetry of Catullus, Propertius and the elegists of the <u>Corpus Tibullianum</u>, indicating in each case the main differences between the literary attitudes of these posts and those of Ovid. …”

The symbolism and rhetoric of hair in Latin elegy by Burkowski, J

“…<p>This thesis examines the hair imagery that runs through the works of Propertius, Tibullus, and Ovid. Comparative analysis of the elegists’ approaches to the motif, with particular emphasis on determining where and how each deviates from the cultural assumptions and literary tradition attached to each image, sheds light on the character and purposes of elegy as a genre, as well as on the individual aims and innovations of each poet. …”