Books by J. P. Sullivan

Professor Sullivan proposes what was, at the time of publication, a new view on Propertius' poetic development and his place in the social political and literary circles of the day. His was an important re-evaluation. It finally banished the picture of Propertius as a simple romantic, apprehended dimly through poor texts and an obscure vocabulary.

A full-length study of the Roman poet's life, times, art and the survival of his poetry up to the twentieth century. All aspects of Martial's epigrams are discussed and there is an evaluation of his poetic merits and faults, plus a history of his European admirers, translators, critics, and censors from the Renaissance to the present. All the Latin is translated.