Cogor...e tabula pictos ediscere mundos (Prop. 4,3,37) Scenari properziani di guerra nell'immaginario femminile

Propertius often depicts war scenarios in which we find characters who, by statute, are antithetical to the elegiac poet; in 3,12 and 4,3, in particular, the selection of some passages, which highlight the female points of view and perspectives, allows us imagining the condition of painful fixity of relictae women; no less significant scenarios are outlined in the elegy 4,4 in which Tarpea, wishful to become a wife, will instead be doomed to final and bloody abandonment due to a tragic circumstance.