In this paper we analyze Propertius' elegy 4.9 starting from the dialogue that this text establishes with other literary texts and with the Hellenistic-Augustan metatext. We postulate that the poet through a procedure of deconstruction and construction presents a Callimachean-Propertian Hercules who acknowledges the aesthetic principles stated in the first programmatic poem of the collection.
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