Grasping Urbanity: Propertius' Book 4 and Urban Religion of the Augustan Period
Propertius' last book of elegies (publ. c. 16 BCE) has been read as a staged conflict between antiquarianism and love elegy. This article argues that the book as a whole is above all a reflection on the spatial and temporal boundaries of the city and the internal impact of the permanent crossin...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Mohr Siebeck
[2020]
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Religion in the Roman empire
Year: 2020, Volume: 6, Issue: 3, Pages: 288-309 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Propertius, Sextus 50 BC-15 BC, Elegiae 4
/ Augustus Roman Empire, Emperor 63 BC-14
/ City
/ Religiosity
/ Stadtgrenze
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| IxTheo Classification: | AF Geography of religion AG Religious life; material religion BE Greco-Roman religions |
| Further subjects: | B
Urbanity
B Urban Religion B URBAN growth B Border Crossing B Religious Literature |
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| Summary: | Propertius' last book of elegies (publ. c. 16 BCE) has been read as a staged conflict between antiquarianism and love elegy. This article argues that the book as a whole is above all a reflection on the spatial and temporal boundaries of the city and the internal impact of the permanent crossing and breaking down of these boundaries. Then and now, imperial expedition and internal treason, permanent and temporary absence, burying outside and loving inside, admission to and exclusion from sacralised and gendered space and finally the vertical dimension of life's above and death's below explore these limits and transfers and constitute the urbanity of the city as well as the urbanity of religion. |
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| ISSN: | 2199-4471 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Religion in the Roman empire
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1628/rre-2020-0019 |