The elegiac cityscape

Description:

"The Elegiac Cityscape explores Propertius' Rome and the various ways his poetry about the city illuminates the dynamic relationship between one individual and his environment. The relationship between poet and city is complicated at every turn by the presence in the background of the emperor Augustus, whose sustained artistic patronage of Roman monuments brought about the most pervasive transformation that the city had yet seen."--BOOK JACKET.

subjects: Architecture in literature,  City and town life in literature,  History and criticism,  Imperialism in literature,  In literature,  Influence,  Latin Elegiac poetry,  Literature and society,  Masculinity in literature,  Monuments in literature,  Politics and literature,  Public architecture,  Propertius, sextus,  Augustus, emperor of rome, 63 b.c.-14 a.d.,  Elegiac poetry, history and criticism

People: Augustus Emperor of Rome (63 B.C.-14 A.D),  Sextus Propertius

Places: Rome