Asterisks and Obelisks
Colin Burrow, 7 March 2019
Poems of Sextus Propertius
edited and translated by Patrick Worsnip.
Carcanet, 253 pp., £12.99, September 2018,978 1 78410 651 5 Show More
edited and translated by Patrick Worsnip.
Carcanet, 253 pp., £12.99, September 2018,
“... Not much is known about Propertius beyond what he says or implies about himself in the four books of elegies he wrote between roughly 30 BC (when he was probably in his mid to late twenties) and about 16 BC. He was born in Assisi and came from a wealthy Umbrian family which seems to have resisted Octavian – the future Emperor Augustus – in the battle of Perugia of 41 BC ... ”