Description
Book SynopsisOvid Unseens provides a bank of 80 practice passages of Latin verse, half elegiac and half hexameter.
Taken from across Ovid's works, including the Metamorphoses, Fasti, Heroides, Amores and Tristia, the passages help build students'' knowledge and confidence in a notoriously difficult element of Latin language learning.
Every passage begins with an introduction, outlining the basic story and theme of the passage, followed by a lead-in' sentence, paraphrasing the few lines before the passage begins.
The first set of passages are translation exercises of 12-16 lines, each accompanied by a Discendum box which highlights a key feature of poetic Latin, equipping students further with the skills to tackle ever more difficult verse passages at first sight.
These are followed by longer passages with scansion exercises and questions on comprehension and stylistic analysis, replicating unseen verse exam questi
Trade Review
Ovid Unseens offers a wide-ranging and carefully graded collection of passages, giving students an excellent introduction to the poet and to the technique of unprepared verse translation. It is packed with sound advice and will be hugely useful. -- John Taylor, Head of Classics at Tonbridge School, UK and author of "Latin Beyond GCSE"
Table of Contents
Preface Introduction to Ovid Translating Latin verse Ovid’s style Ovid’s Elegiac Poetry: - Shorter translation passages 1-20 - Full translation and comprehension passages 21-40 Ovid’s Hexameter Poetry: - Shorter translation passages 1-20 - Full translation and comprehension passages 21-40 An introduction to scansion and Ovid’s metres Verse vocabulary checklists Index locorum
