Complete Poems of Tibullus - An En Face Bilingual Edition

Zusatztext "Quite simply! the best translation of Latin non-narrative poetry I have ever seen." Informationen zum Autor Rodney G. Dennis was Curator of Manuscripts at Houghton Library! Harvard University! from 1965 to 1991. A translator of both Classical and Renaissance Latin! he was a founding editor of Persephone as well as a lecturer in English at Harvard. Michael C. J. Putnam is MacMillan Professor of Classics and Professor of Comparative Literature emeritus at Brown University. His many other books include Virgil's Epic Designs and Horace's Carmen Saeculare ! Poetic Interplay ! and A Companion to Virgil's Aeneid and its Tradition . Julia Haig Gaisser Eugenia Chase Guild Professor Emerita in the Humanities and Professor Emerita of Latin at Bryn Mawr College. Her book The Fortunes of Apuleius and the Golden Ass won the 2009 Charles J. Goodwin Award of Merit! the highest award for a work of Classics! given by the American Philological Association. Her other books include Catullus in English and Pierio Valeriano on the Ill-fortune of Learned Men . Klappentext Suitable for those who seek to understand Roman culture and sexuality and the origins of Western poetry! this title provides the necessary historical and social background to the poet's life and works. Zusammenfassung Suitable for those who seek to understand Roman culture and sexuality and the origins of Western poetry, this title provides the necessary historical and social background to the poet's life and works. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface Introduction Julia Haig Gaisser Tibullus: Books 1 and 2 Lygdamus: Corpus Tibullianum 3.1-6 Sulpicia: Corpus Tibullianum 3.13-18 = 4.7-12 Domitius Marsus Epigram Appendix: Ovid Amores 3.9 Notes to the Translations Glossary Select Bibliography Index ...

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• Authors: Lygdamus, Lygdamus Lygdamus, Sulpicia, Sulpicia Sulpicia, Tibullus, Albius Tibullus, Albius Lygdamus Sulpicia Tibullus, Tibullus Albius
• Assisted by: Julia Haig Gaisser (Introduction), Gaisser Julia Haig (Introduction), Rodney G. Dennis (Translation), Dennis Rodney G. (Translation), Michael C. J. Putnam (Translation), Putnam Michael C. J. (Translation)
• Publisher: University Of California Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 21.05.2012
• EAN: 9780520272538
• ISBN: 978-0-520-27253-8
• No. of pages: 176
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Latin, LITERARY CRITICISM / Ancient & Classical, Literary studies: classical, early & medieval, Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval