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Ovid: Heroides Xvi-Xxi

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Klappentext This is Ovid's wittily imagined version of the letters exchanged by three famous pairs of lovers. Zusammenfassung This is an edition with commentary of six poems by the Roman poet Ovid. These are the letters! as Ovid imagined them! exchanged between three famous pairs of lovers! Paris and Helen of Troy! Hero and Leander! and Acontius and Cydippe. This is the first commentary in any language since 1898 on these 'double' letters. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: 1. The double letters; 2. The three stories: sources, models, treatment; 3. The 'Gedichtbuch'; 4. Style and authorship; 5. Text and transmission; P. OVIDI NASONIS HEROIDVM EPISTVLAE XVI¿XXI; COMMENTARY; Appendix: Greek proper names in Heroides XVI¿XXI; Indexes.

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Assisted by Kenney E. J. (Editor), E. J. Kenney (Editor)
Authors E. J. Kenney, Ovid Ovid, Ovid
Publisher Cambridge University Press ELT
 
Content Book
Product form Paperback / Softback
Publication date 21.03.1996
Subject Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Classical linguistics / literary studies
Fiction > Poetry, drama
 
EAN 9780521466233
ISBN 978-0-521-46623-3
Pages 284
 
Series Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics
Cambridge Greek & Latin Classi
Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics
Subjects Essays
LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Essays
Latin
Literary essays
 

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