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Brill's Companion to Propertius BRILL’S COMPANION TO PROPERTIUS BRILL’S COMPANION TO PROPERTIUS edited by HANS-CHRISTIAN GÜNTHER LEIDEN • BOSTON 2006 This book is printed on acid-free paper. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data A C.I.P. record for this book is available from the Library of Congress. ISBN-13: 978 90 04 13682 3 ISBN-10: 90 04 13682 7 © Copyright 2006 by Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands Koninklijke Brill NV incorporates the imprints Brill, Martinus Nijhoff Publishers and VSP. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, translated, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without prior written permission from the publisher. Authorization to photocopy items for internal or personal use is granted by Brill provided that the appropriate fees are paid directly to The Copyright Clearance Center, 222 Rosewood Drive, Suite 910 Danvers MA 01923, USA. Fees are subject to change printed in the netherlands JOSEF DELZ In Memoriam CONTENTS Preface .......................................................................................... xi PART ONE PROPERTIUS: THE HISTORY OF PROPERTIAN SCHOLARSHIP 1. The History of Propertian Scholarship ................................ 3 Paolo Fedeli PART TWO THE TEXTUAL TRADITION OF PROPERTIUS 2. The Transmission of the Text of Propertius ........................ 25 James Butrica 3. Propertian Textual Criticism and Editing ............................ 45 Richard Tarrant PART THREE PROPERTIUS AND THE TRADITION OF GREEK AND ROMAN POETRY 4. Propertius and the Origins of Latin Love-Elegy .................. 69 Francis Cairns 5. Propertius and Hellenistic Poetry .......................................... 97 Adrian Hollis 6. Propertius and the Neoterics .................................................. 127 Peter Knox viii contents PART FOUR THE MAJOR THEMES OF PROPERTIUS’ POETRY AND HIS POETIC TECHNIQUE 7. Major Themes and Motifs in Propertius’ Love Poetry .... 147 Robert Maltby 8. The Image of Woman in Propertius’ Poetry...................... 183 Elaine Fantham 9. Propertius and Rhetoric ...................................................... 199 Tobias Reinhard PART FIVE AN INTERPRETATION OF PROPERTIUS’ WORK 10. The First Book .................................................................... 219 Gesine Manuwald 11. The Second Book ................................................................ 245 Hans Peter Syndikus 12. The Third Book: Defining a Poetic Self .......................... 319 Kevin Newman 13. The Fourth Book ................................................................ 353 Hans-Christian Günther PART SIX THE RECEPTION OF PROPERTIUS’ POETRY 14. The Reception of Propertius in Late Antiquity and Neolatin and Renaissance Literature ................................ 399 Simona Gavinelli contents ix 15. The Reception of Propertius in the Modern Age: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe’s Römische Elegien and Ezra Pound’s Homage to Sextus Propertius .............................. 417 Bernhard Zimmermann Bibliography ................................................................................ 429 Index .......................................................................................... 449 Index Locorum .......................................................................... 457 PREFACE The present volume intends to provide a comprehensive introduc- tion to the major aspects of the work of one of the most difficult Latin poets. It was my aim to present both a fair picture of the pre- sent state of research and pieces of original scholarship; neither did I interfere with the specific form of contributions nor has there been any attempt of harmonizing eventually conflicting views. Propertius is an author who offers ample room for disagreement. In view of the enormous difficulties of the transmitted text a con- siderable space is given to textual matters (Part Two), and an intro- duction deals with the history of Propertian scholarship (Part One), focusing on the various approaches to textual difficulties in particu- lar. The largest space, however, is occupied by an interpretation of Propertius’ four transmitted books (Part Five). Regarding Propertius’ language, I refer the reader to H. Tränkle’s magisterial comprehensive study Die Sprachkunst des Properz und die Tradition der lateinischen Dichtersprache (Wiesbaden 1960), as well as to the same author’s more recent contribution ‘Die Sprache des Properz und die stilistischen Tendenzen der augusteischen Dichtung’ (in: G. Catanzaro – F. Santucci (eds.), Bimillenario della morte di Properzio (Atti del Convegno internazionale di studi properziani, Roma–Assisi, 21–26 maggio 1985) Assisi 1986, 155–73); however, there is also a section on language in K. Newman’s contribution on Book 3 (pp. 328f.). I am very grateful to all contributors for their collaboration and hope that this book will be useful to scholars and students alike. Special thanks for advice in the planning phase of the volume go to Arnd Kerkhecker and Gesine Manuwald. For technical help with the preparation of the volume I thank Maia Danelia and Eka Gamkrelidze. During the final stage of revision of the volume Josef Delz died in June of this year. We all hope that the dedication of this volume will be found worthy of the memory of a man whose scholarly and human merits are too well known to need further mention. Freiburg, November 2005 H.-C. Günther PART ONE PROPERTIUS: THE HISTORY OF PROPERTIAN SCHOLARSHIP CHAPTER ONE THE HISTORY OF PROPERTIAN SCHOLARSHIP Paolo Fedeli In the preface to his 1816 Propertius, the young Lachmann first estab- lished the criteria on which his edition was based, and then felt it necessary to distinguish the tasks of a criticus from those of an inter- pres. He claimed to be only a criticus, as his still tender age would not allow him to take on the mantle of the interpres. This apparently very modest affirmation cannot hide Lachmann’s proud conviction that the criticus is superior to the interpres; however, a true criticus must necessarily be an interpres. In any case, in the very same 1816 edi- tion, Lachmann did not limit himself to acting as a criticus, but also carried out the role of the interpres.1 Propertian studies have of course never been completely able to dissociate the two: when faced with a late and in many ways sus- pect tradition, in the presence of a text that—despite a few recent and rather unconvincing attempts to seek a way out by recourse to emendatio—had a number of highly original features compared with the usual schemas of the Augustans, from one point of view the activity of recensio cannot be reduced to pure mechanics, but implies a continuous reflection on the right way of understanding the Propertian text, while from another the task of anyone who wishes to under- stand, explain and comment can never be entirely separated from a full awareness of the limits of Propertian manuscript tradition. Before Lachmann turned his attention to it, the Propertian text had never been treated any differently from other Latin authors, for whom a vulgate tradition had become consolidated, dating back to the early humanistic editions. Regarding the editio princeps of Propertius, there were two published in Venice in 1472, the first probably being the apparently anonymous one (though it was actually printed by 1 Lachmann (1816) IV. 4 chapter one Federico de’ Conti)2 dated February, which is based on widely inter- polated manuscripts of the D family, and on a manuscript in Venice’s Biblioteca Marciana (Z = Bibl.Marc., Fondo antico 443 [1912]), which descends recta via from the Petrarchan manuscript.3 The text of the other 1472 Venetian edition, printed by Vindelino da Spira, is based on the Laurentianus plut. 36,49 (F), which was owned by Coluccio Salutati and continues to occupy a place of honor in Propertius’ critical apparatus, and on a Göttingen manuscript of lit- tle value. If, as I personally continue to believe, it is correct to divide Propertian tradition into two families (N on one side, the second family on the other), this means that the Propertian vulgate has been built upon the text of the second family. It was with Domizio Calderini (1447–1478) that the Propertian work first attracted the attention of the Humanists and became the privileged subject of a series of commentaries, which should be regarded as being the archetypes of the modern ones. Calderini4 pio- neered Propertian studies right from the first edition of his notes on the more obscure passages, included in his commentary on Statius’ Silvae and on the epistula Sapphica attributed to Ovid.5 The features of humanistic commentary are clearly delineated, and were intended to act as a rudimentary critical apparatus, aimed to exalt the fulmen ingenii when faced with the provisional nature of the manuscript tra- dition: in Calderini’s case there are a dozen or so conjectures, only one of which appears to be reliable.6 The humanistic commentaries, however, were mainly very poor of problems connected with liter- ary genres and cultural influences, and ignored any allusiveness, and were not confined to comments on the author in question. Rather, they aim to create a repertory of data that may be of use to other authors. It is clear that as far as Propertius is concerned, Calderini’s classical sources were different from the mainly Hellenistic ones that the Latin author could rely on: so the humanistic commentator attempted to show off his erudition, especially in the privileged field
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