Friday, October 17, 2008

Atalanta wrestles Peleus - painted circa 550 B.C.



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atalanta

http://www.theoi.com/Heroine/Atalanta.html
By bringing the heroine Atalanta into his first elegy, doesn't Propertius imply that his Cynthia also is such a strong, dominant woman, whom he longs to subdue?

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