Elegies
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Elegies is a collection of Latin love elegies by the Roman poet Propertius, renowned for its intense emotional introspection and sophisticated poetic style.
Observed surface forms (1)
| Surface form | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Elegies (Propertius) | 0 |
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Latin literature
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elegiac poetry ⓘ poetry collection ⓘ |
| alternateCounting | sometimes counted as 5 books ⓘ |
| approximateDate | late 1st century BCE ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Augustus
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Maecenas NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| author | Propertius NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| canonicalStatus | major work of Latin elegy ⓘ |
| centralCharacter | Cynthia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| characterTypeOfCynthia | elegiac mistress ⓘ |
| contemporaryOf |
Horace
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Ovid NERFINISHED ⓘ Tibullus NERFINISHED ⓘ Virgil NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | Ancient Rome NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| firstBookFocus | intense love affair with Cynthia GENERATED ⓘ |
| genre | love elegy ⓘ |
| hasBook |
Book 1 of Propertius
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Book 2 of Propertius NERFINISHED ⓘ Book 3 of Propertius NERFINISHED ⓘ Book 4 of Propertius NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| influenced |
Ovidian elegy
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Renaissance humanist poets NERFINISHED ⓘ later Latin love poetry ⓘ |
| influencedBy |
Callimachus
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Hellenistic poetry ⓘ |
| language | Latin ⓘ |
| laterBooksFocus |
Roman history and foundation legends
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aetiological poems ⓘ mythological narratives ⓘ |
| literaryMovement | Roman love elegy ⓘ |
| literaryPeriod | Augustan age NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| mainTheme |
Roman society and politics
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erotic desire ⓘ infidelity ⓘ jealousy ⓘ love ⓘ poetry and poetic vocation ⓘ |
| metricalForm | elegiac couplet ⓘ |
| notableFor |
intense emotional introspection
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sophisticated poetic style ⓘ |
| numberOfBooks | 4 ⓘ |
| setting | Rome NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| styleCharacteristic |
complex syntax
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dense allusiveness ⓘ mythological exempla ⓘ subjective first-person voice ⓘ |
| survivalStatus | survives in medieval manuscript tradition ⓘ |
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