Description
Book SynopsisOvid’s books of personal love elegies are arguably his most attractive work. This edition of
Amores II offers a Latin text with parallel prose translation, and critical essays written especially for the reader with little or no Latin. For more advanced scholars, there is a line by line commentary on the Latin text and an apparatus criticus.
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LACTTable of Contents Preface
Addendum 1999
Abbreviations and Index of Works Cited
Introduction
I. ‘The glory of the Paelignian people’: Ovid and his poetic career’
II. ‘Poems a lass would like to hear’: love-elegy
III. ‘Frivolous muse’: The
Amores IV. What came naturally: Ovid’s elegiac style
V. The text
VI. The translation
Text, Translation and Discussions
Apparatus Criticus
Commentary
General Index
