Studi di poesia latina - Studies of Latin Poetry
Luoghi, ambienti, immagini: il paesaggio in Properzio
Proceedings of the Twenty-Third International Conference on Propertius, Assisi – Trevi, 27-29 May 2021
With an investigation into the landscapes and environments – real topical imaginary recalled and traversed by Propertius’ elegies – the contributors focus on the poet’s complex relationship not only with the images of the literary tradition and with those of artistic culture but also with the images Rome Italy and the Mediterranean offered him in his days. This results in the outlines of an original ‘imaginary’ in which the power of personal creation has given Assisi Rome and the Empire a form going beyond the limits of time and space.
I generi letterari in Properzio: modelli e fortuna
Proceedings of the Twenty-Second International Conference on Propertius. Assisi-Spello, 24-27 May 2018
Tra Omero e Virgilio passando attraverso la tragedia l'epos enniano l'epigramma e il registro epigrafico la tradizione etiologica e didascalica e la formularità giuridica la silloge properziana guadagna grazie a questo XXII Convegno una nuova primazia nel macrotesto augusteo. La sua poetica appare meno rettilinea ma più dialogante alla ricerca di una via per uscire dalla gabbia dello stereotipo erotico: e se non così 'difficile' come in passato risulta la sua adesione alle direttive augustee più ricca appare la strumentazione posta in atto da Properzio per nutrire la propria vocazione per cercare una strada autonoma: far risuonare nella propria la voce virgiliana ma con un mutato orientamento una nuova discorsività. Del resto dobbiamo prepararci a pensare in termini rinnovati o perlomeno più definiti lo stesso personaggio Properzio: un Sesto Properzio finanzia in età augustea o giulio-claudia la costruzione in Assisi di un teatro probabilmente legato alla Domus Musae. Così la prosopografia properziana si profila strettamente intrecciata alla storia della letteratura di età imperiale e può gettare luce anche sui possibili consumatori di poesia elegiaca.
Properzio fra Repubblica e Principato
Proceedings of the twenty-first international conference on Propertius, Assisi – Cannara, 30 May –1 June 2016
The 2016 conference’s aim was to place Propertius in context. The papers focused on the compatibility between the choice of the elegiac form and the political framework with special emphasis on Propertius’ relationship to Tullus before his approach to Maecenas and the more direct contact with Augustus subsequent to Maecenas’ removal. While not overstepping the bounds of the genre the poet was able to contrive a set of references to the princeps and the political reality thus originally achieving a balanced attitude. It is impossible however to grasp any growing alignment with Augustan policies. Rather the recognition of the collective perception of the turning point marked by the victory at Actium though within the patterns typical of the elegiac genre can be perceived.
Le figure del mito in Properzio
Proceedings of the Twentieth International Conference on Propertius, Assisi-Bevagna 30 May - 1 June 2014
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.
Properzio e l'etá augustea. Cultura, storia, arte
Proceedings of the Nineteenth Conference on Propertius, Assisi-Perugia 25-27 May 2012
The two thousandth anniversary of the death of Augustus is an important opportunity to reconsider the close relationship the poet Propertius and the town of Assisi had with the first emperor and the Roman world. With regard to Propertius it was felt that the time had come to take stock of the growing interest in the Umbrian poet and the speakers of the 2012 Conference (Properzio e l’età augustea: cultura storia arte) were invited to focus on two perspectives: the interwoven relationship between Propertius and Augustus on the one hand and his problematic interaction with the poets and literary circles of Rome on the other. The comparison with Augustus also called for the introduction of new data in the historical debate regarding the complex of monuments in the city of Assisi from the Temple of Minerva which dates back to the triumviral age to the conspicuous epigraphic heritage of the gens Propertia and archaeological landmarks such as the Domus Musae and the Domus del Lararium. Taking into account the multifarious stimuli hinted at these proceedings are to be read as a exchange of comparative assessments by philologists the primary and legitimate custodians of the secretum of the poetry of Propertius archaeologists epigraphists and historians called to define in dynamic terms - of imitation assimilation and comparison - the relations the poet had with Rome and Augustus with his hometown of Assisi and the Umbrian and Etruscan cities of the Umbrian Valley and with the culture art and the political groups active in triumviral and Augustan Rome.