Mythology and elegiac genre in Propertius: a correlation

• Grant number: 22/08756-6
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Scientific Initiation
• Start date: November 01, 2022
• End date: January 01, 2024
• Field of knowledge: Linguistics, Literature and Arts - Literature - Classical Languages
• Principal Investigator: Paulo Martins
• Grantee: Letícia Rodrigues Ferreira
• Host Institution: Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas (FFLCH). Universidade de São Paulo (USP). São Paulo , SP, Brazil
• Associated scholarship(s): 23/00761-3 - Mythology and aetiology in the fourth book of Propertius, BE.EP.IC

Abstract

This reaserch aims to understand the dinamics between mythological subject and elegiac genre on Propertius' elegies, having in mind that it is a poetics whose filiation is hellenistic, that is to say, in which mythology has estructural and decisive function. The work must be realized in two phases: 1) the theoric comprehension of antique poetic genres (precisely elegy) and myhology; and 2) to reading the corpus as an evidence of the connection between myth and elegy in Propertian poetry. Not least, there is a hipothesis in which Propertius presents two elegiacs programs, represented by the first and fourth books, subject for this study.