Le figure del mito in Properzio

The myth in Propertius was already dealt with in Colloquium Propertianum in 2002, but in the present book - Le figure del mito in Properzio - appears as an ethical and aesthetic value in thefield of letters, arts and historical memory of the Roman people. Propertius’ Elegies show a deep and refined Hellenistic culture that seeks its roots in Etruscan and Umbrian origins, in the years when Augustus was restoring the temples of past ages and creating the principatus. The topic of the myth throughout the four books of Elegies differs both from Catullus and from the writers of his period (Virgil, Horace, Ovid, Tibullus) and constitutes a peculiar entity, where the memory of the past becomes present.