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.

Review of the hardback: '… there is an enormous amount of useful material here … he (Cairns) offers useful stimuli to thought and argument.' The Times Literary Supplement

• 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.

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.

Review of the hardback: '… there is an enormous amount of useful material here … he (Cairns) offers useful stimuli to thought and argument.' The Times Literary Supplement

• 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.

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.

Review of the hardback: '… there is an enormous amount of useful material here … he (Cairns) offers useful stimuli to thought and argument.' The Times Literary Supplement

• 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.