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1 year ago in Latin American Studies By Kriya

Helen of Troy in the Love Elegies of Propertius

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By Aamir Answered 3 months ago

 Yes, there is focused scholarship on this. Start by searching for articles by leading Propertius scholars like Paul Allen Miller or Micaela Janan. Use specialized databases—JSTOR for broader classics journals and L'Année philologique for a comprehensive index of classical studies. Your best search terms will be combinations like "Propertius Helen similes" or "Propertius mythology." This will lead you to analyses of how Helen functions as a paradigm of beauty, ruin, or erotic obsession in his poetic world.

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