Cynthia’s resurrection

Cynthia is back from the grave, on an excursion with someone who looks like a rival for Propertius to visit a festival where a fearsome snake is to be fed by maidens in honour of Juno – and when she returns and catches Propertius up to no good, she gives him good reason to regret it. But in the preceding poem she was dead and buried: what is going on?

Find a suggestion, hear an extract from the original Latin and follow the whole poem in parallel text here.

Snake photo by Holger Krisp: see the photo credits page for licensing details.

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