The University of Virginia library has (with my permission) placed my dissertation, “Problems of unity and design in Propertius II” (1990) on-line. It’s a bit half-baked, but I still think my conclusions are sound. Should you read it? The best way to judge is to start with Chapter 2, on 2.29, of which S. J. Heyworth writes (Cynthia<\/i>, 238): “The two sections [of 2.29] are set up as a contrasting pair, brought out well by Hendry 1990: night\/day (for which one may compare Ovid, amores<\/i> 1.5\/6); out of doors\/at Cynthia’s house; narrative addressed to Cynthia\/3rd person narrative about Cynthia; pleasant fantasy\/cruel reality; but such antitheses can function at least as well if we separate the parts.”<\/p>\n
For the abstract and a link to the PDF, click here<\/a>. Chapter 2 does not discuss my conjecture on 2.29.28 (qua<\/i> for quae<\/i>, not mentioned in Cynthia<\/i>, but included in the apparatus of the OCT), which I had not yet devised.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The University of Virginia library has (with my permission) placed my dissertation, “Problems of unity and design in Propertius II” (1990) on-line. It’s a bit half-baked, but I still think my conclusions are sound. Should you read it? The best … Continue reading