Faces of Loneliness in Propertius 1.18
Faces of Loneliness in Propertius 1.18

Summary/Abstract: In Propertius’ Elegy 1.18, the speaker arrives at an empty, deso-late grove so that he may complain loud about being an abandoned loverin solitude. The work is positioned in the mainstream of the Augustan loveelegy, but apart from elegiac concepts, it contains numerous topoi andintertextual references to the tradition of bucolic poetry. This article dis-cusses the functioning of the motif of loneliness, which in 1.18 combinesvarious elements that make up the image of the depicted world and ena-bles the selection and modification of interpretative clues.

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