Table of Contents

1: The Lover's Mockumentary
Searching for Gallus
Patronage and Politics
The Umbrian Callimachus
The Text of Propertius
Aphrodite's Underwear
Horace, For Example
Deviant Exemplarity
2: Programmatics
Of Apples and Arcadia (1.1)
Myth and Ornament (1.2)
The Objectifying Gaze (1.3)
3: Myth and Genre
Against Iambic (1.4)
Antigone and Elegy (1.7)
Amphion vs Orpheus (1.9)
Prometheus and the Mayfly (1.12)
Love and Money (1.14)
Hysterical Heroines (1.15)
Nasty Nereids (1.17)
Love and Death (1.19)
The Real Gallus (1.13)
4: Against Pastoral
Tender Feet (1.8)
Et in Arcadia Echo (1.18)
The Second Best Bed (2.4)
Hylas Descending (1.20)
Virgil's Orpheus
5: The Return of Orpheus
Virgil's Metamorphosis (2.1)
Eurydice Recovered (2.7)
Missed Connections, Lost Property (2.10)
Orpheus and Adonis (2.13)
The Resurrection of Orpheus (2.27)
The Muse's Child (2.30)
Various Poets (2.34)
The Resurrection of Adonis
6: Ennius Redivivus
Troy or Romea (3.1)
The Polyphemus Paradox (3.2)
Nightmare on Helicon (3.3)
A Hypocritical Epicurean (3.5)
Poet and Patron (3.9)
7: Conclusion
Endmatter
Bibliography
Index Locorum
Index Nominum

About the Author

Peter Heslin is Reader in Classics at Durham University. He is the author of The Museum of Augustus: The Temple of Apollo in Pompeii, the Portico of Philippus in Rome, and Latin Poetry (J. Paul Getty Museum, 2015), The Transvestite Achilles: Gender and Genre in Statius' Achilleid (CUP, 2005), and several articles examining Propertius' relationship to both Virgil and Horace. He has also written on the topography of Augustan Rome, the Latin epic
tradition, and Digital Humanities, and is the developer of Diogenes, open-source software for reading Latin and Greek texts.

Reviews

[a] learned and thought-provoking book ... It is a testament to the persuasiveness of Heslin's arguments that in most instances where a reader disagrees with his interpretation, one is much more likely to seek an alternate explanation than to doubt the possibility of the myth's relevance to its larger thematic context.
*Jeri DeBrohun, Bryn Mawr Classical Review *

This is a work of the very best kind of scholarship. Anyone who has ever read anything by the author knows what to expect: a lucid, densely argued, yet attractively presented revisionist argument, supported by penetrating close-readings of the evidence. H. offers a compelling interpretation of the continuous interaction with Vergil in Propertius' first three books ... This book throws a big rock into the pond of Augustan poetry; the ripples will be seen for some time to come.
*Gary Vos, Classics for all*

All students of Propertius will profit from reading this important book.
*John F. Miller, Charlottesville, VA, Gnomon*