OVID'S <i>FASTI</i> IN EXILE

Franklinos, T.E.

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Propertius’ Cynthia

Franklinos

2024

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This book considers the metapoetic and intra- and intertextual habits of Propertius and their relationship with the repetitious amatory discourse that he fashions for himself with his beloved, Cynthia. Where scholarship has tended to treat metaliterary and amatory aspects of Propertius’ poetry as distinct, this volume—focused on Books 3 and 4—argues that Propertius’ discussion of his own poetry and of his relationship to it as an author-figure—his metapoetic commentary—is closely married to, and can be clearly mapped onto, his account of his relationship with Cynthia, especially in Books 1–3. Moreover, it is shown that the elegist’s amorous discourse is constituted of a poetics of repetitiousness that is apt for the articulation of an elegiac relationship that, by its nature, cannot progress: Propertius’ encounters with Cynthia are repetitive, and he mirrors these in his recollection of lexical and thematic aspects of earlier poems in later ones. Each elegy provides a fragmentary glance at Propertius’ relationship and, through repetitions with variation, the poet (re)shapes his readers’ understanding of his amatory discourse. Furthermore, it is argued that, since his beloved is the embodiment of his poetry, Propertius’ account of the vicissitudes of their relationship allows him to articulate the varied transformations of his elegiac corpus; this becomes most significant as the closing cycle of Book 3 appears to end their relationship and to see the beginning of a radical experimentation with the generic bounds of elegy that is expanded in Book 4 and pre-empts aspects of Ovid’s poetic project.

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Introduction

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The Introduction begins from 2.1 and provides an account of Cynthia as Propertius’ scripta puella. It goes on to demonstrate that she is his amatory poetry enfleshed and that the account of his relationship with her—his lover’s discourse—can be closely mapped onto his articulation of his poetic stance as an elegist. In the course of his poetry, Propertius intratextually revisits and recasts his earlier elegies in later ones encoding a poetics of repetition; this is apparent throughout his corpus. The elegiac repetitiousness of language and theme is mirrored in the repetitive nature of the fragmented episodes of the amorous discourse that he construes with Cynthia and with which his reader is presented. It is also argued that, in turning back to revisit earlier books, Propertius integrates later books into his pre-existing corpus, while also reframing that corpus by the addition of new material.

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OVID'S FASTI IN EXILE

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