Abstract
This research has as its main objective to investigate the composition of the image of the puella in elegies of Sextus Propertius (c. 50 - 15 B.C.) concerning to two arts, Venus and Minerva. In this context, the art of Venus corresponds to the elegiac lover conduct; the art of Minerva (originally, art of spinning) corresponds to the adequate female conduct of a social point of view. Knowi…