Carmina

I am reading Heyworth's Oxford Classical Text, which is the pictured book. I am not sure why so many translations have been attached and reviewed under it! Heyworth's is a radical edition, with many emendations, transpositions, and deletions (these are all discussed in a companion volume, Cynthia). He does tend to go overboard with unnecessary transpositions of lines. It is often more readable than its more conservative predecessors, but those familiar with them will find the text quite different; quot editores, tot Propertii.

Richardson provides a very solid commentary on his version of Propertius. His text includes a number of emendations, recombinations, and transpositions, not all found in other editions. He makes an effort to produce a readable text that does not have a lot of hanging fragments. His commentary focuses on literary issues more than textual ones (and many of his textual alterations are driven by his literary readings/interpretations). I am not sure that he is always right (understatement) but he produces a readable and attractive Propertius. I think Heyworth's OCT is a better text from a philological standpoint, both more radical (printing more emendations) and more conservative (in not moving around text quite as much and recognizing more show more fragments). show less

I really don't like Propertius, but you can't blame the book for that, which has good introductions and commentary (though no dictionary in the back).