RT Article
T1 Grasping Urbanity: Propertius' Book 4 and Urban Religion of the Augustan Period
JF Religion in the Roman empire
VO 6
IS 3
SP 288
OP 309
A1 Rüpke, Jörg 1962-
LA English
PB Mohr Siebeck
YR 2020
UL https://www.ixtheo.de/Record/1756291381
AB Propertius' last book of elegies (publ. c. 16 BCE) has been read as a staged conflict between antiquarianism and love elegy. This article argues that the book as a whole is above all a reflection on the spatial and temporal boundaries of the city and the internal impact of the permanent crossing and breaking down of these boundaries. Then and now, imperial expedition and internal treason, permanent and temporary absence, burying outside and loving inside, admission to and exclusion from sacralised and gendered space and finally the vertical dimension of life's above and death's below explore these limits and transfers and constitute the urbanity of the city as well as the urbanity of religion.
K1 Urban Religion
K1 Border Crossing
K1 Religious Literature
K1 URBAN growth
K1 Urbanity
DO 10.1628/rre-2020-0019