Francis Cairns is Professor of Classical Languages at the Florida State University. He is the author of Generic Composition in Greek and Roman Poetry (1972), Tibullus: A Hellenistic Poet at Rome (1979) and Virgil's Augustan Epic (1989), as well as numerous articles on Greek and Latin poetry.
Preface
Abbreviations
1. The Propertii
2. The Volcacii Tulli and others
3. 'Gallus'
4. Gallan elegies, themes and motifs
5. Gallan metrics I
6. Gallan metrics II
7. Propertius 1.20, Gallus, and Parthenius of Nicaea
8. Maecenas
9. The circle of Maecenas in Propertius 2.34
10. Augustus
11. A lighter shade of praise? Propertius 3.17 and 3.14
12. Three Propemptika for 'Caesar'
Works cited
Indexes.
