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Constructing Characters in Propertius

One of the major contributions of late republican and early imperial Latin poetry to the course of literature was the development of a subjective, firstpersonal voice that seems to speak directly to the reader or to the addressee (pretending to ignore the reader), without the framing devices of narrative or dramatic presentation, and without even an explicit rhetorical separation of speaker and persona. This is not to say, of course, that the speaker of Augustan elegy straightforwardly is the poet, the man, the “real person”— far from it, for indeed, there are many levels of “persona” active in the communicative dynamics of elegy—but rather to suggest that the subjective stance offers a pose of immediacy which precisely occludes the artificiality of its own dynamics: ars adeo latet arte sua (“art lies hidden by its own art,” Ov. Met. 10.252). As Elizabeth Bruss has said: “To speak in the first person is to identify oneself as the immediate source of the communication, and to make of this a focal issue of that communication.” The subjective stance