https://www.peren-revues.fr/eugesta/767 Entrées d’index fr 0 https://www.peren-revues.fr/eugesta/1631 The elegiac love affair and mistress portrayed by the first century BCE Roman poet Propertius was a more important influence on the sixteenth century poet-courtesan Veronica Franco than has previously been credited. Scholarship has tended to focus on Franco’s reception of Ovid’s works, particularly the Heroides, but Propertius provides an important forerunner for Franco’s speaking subject in his main female character, Cynthia. Although she is an elegiac beloved, Cynthia’s speeches consistently undermine the elegiac worldview, especially the characterization of the lover as suffering and faithful and the beloved as fickle and cruel. Closer attention to Franco’s use of Propertius, through the example of two of her poems, Capitoli 17 and 20, provides a richer understanding of the intertextual relationship between them. At the same time, Franco’s work can add to our understanding of Propertius, as she is one of the earliest readers of Propertius to take his disruption of gender politics and fidelity seriously. ven., 31 oct. 2025 12:13:19 +0100 jeu., 27 nov. 2025 15:42:01 +0100 https://www.peren-revues.fr/eugesta/1631 https://www.peren-revues.fr/eugesta/766 This paper analyses the homoerotic aspect of Propertius 1.20 and its presentation of the myth of Hylas, the lost beloved of Hercules. It argues that Propertius reacts to the portrait of ‘Greek love’ that is found in the two surviving lengthy versions of this myth in Apollonius’ Argonautica and Theocritus’ Idylls, increasing the homoerotic ambience of the myth and encouraging his readers to look back to his models for traces of the approach that he himself takes. It also interrogates Propertius’ domestication of his Greek models’ narratives in a contemporary Roman and particularly elegiac context, and argues that the poem is better integrated into Propertius’ elegiac universe than is often acknowledged. mar., 14 juin 2022 09:13:20 +0200 jeu., 09 mars 2023 16:27:00 +0100 https://www.peren-revues.fr/eugesta/766