A Strikingly Innovative Account Of Propertius' Relationship With Virgil Paints A Remarkable Picture Of Poetic Rivals. Examination Of Their Use Of Greek Mythology Uncovers Sustained Polemics Concealed And Couched In Meta-literary Allusions, Forcing A Reshaping Of Our Understanding Of Poetic Interaction Within The Circle Of Maecenas.: 1. Lover's Mockumentary -- Searching For Gallus -- Patronage And Politics -- Umbrian Callimachus -- Text Of Propertius -- Aphrodite's Underwear (2.2) -- Horace, For Example (carm. 1.8) -- Deviant Exemplarity (2.22a) -- 2. Programmatics -- Of Apples And Arcadia (1.1) -- Myth And Ornament (1.2) -- Objectifying Gaze (1.3) -- 3. Myth And Genre -- Against Iambic (1.4) -- Antigone And Elegy (1.7) -- Amphion Vs Orpheus (1.9) -- Medea And The Mayfly (1.12) -- Love And Money (1.14) -- Hysterical Heroines(1.15) -- Nasty Nereids (1.17) -- Love And Death (1.19) -- Real Gallus (1.13) -- 4. Against Pastoral -- Tender Feet (1.8) -- Et In Arcadia Echo (1.18) -- Settling For Second Best (2.4) -- Hylas Descending (1.20) -- Virgil's Orpheus -- 5. Return Of Orpheus -- Herdsman, Ploughman, Soldier, Sailor (2.1) -- Eurydice Recovered (2.7) -- Missed Connections, Lost Property (2.10) -- Orpheus And Adonis (2.13) -- Resurrection Of Orpheus (2.27) -- Muse's Child (2.30) -- Various Poets (2.34) -- Resurrection Of Adonis -- 6. Ennius Redivivus -- Troy Or Rome? (3.1) -- Polyphemus Paradox (3.2) -- Nightmare On Helicon (3.3) -- Hypocritical Epicurean (3.5) -- Poet And Patron (3.9) -- 7. Conclusion. Peter J. Heslin. Includes Bibliographical References (pages 271-292) And Index. Also Available In Electronic Format.