RESCUING CYNTHIA: DREAM AND COMMEMORATION IN PROPERTIUS 2.26.

The article offers poetry criticism of the poem "Elegy" by Sextus Propertius. It states that the poem demands a response and announces itself as significant. It presents the poet-lover's dream of imagining ways on how to save his lover after being shipwrecked. It points on the generically convention...

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Published in:	Classical Philology Vol. 105; no. 2; pp. 189 - 202
Main Author:	Flaschenriem, Barbara L.
Format:	Article
Published:	University of Chicago Press Apr2010
Subjects:	Elegy (Poem) Propertius, Sextus, ca. 50 B.C.-15 B.C. Poetry (Literary form) Poetry explication Criticism Love poetry
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