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Maurice Platnauer (1887-1974) published this seminal study of the metrical practices of the great Augustan elegists in 1951, and it is yet to be superseded. Principal of Brasenose College, Oxford, between 1956 and 1960, Platnauer examined every conceivable aspect of the versification of the three principal Latin elegiac poets, Tibullus, Propertius and Ovid, scrutinising in turn their prosody, word use and idiom. The book contains numerous tables of statistics comparing the frequency of various m

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Author

Platnauer, Maurice

Publisher

University of Cambridge ESOL Examinations; Cambridge University Press

Published

2013

Language

EN

ISBN

9781108053716

Category

history

Subjects

History, Literary Fiction, Anthropology

Updated

2026-03-25