Ovid: Heroides Xvi-Xxi

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.

Product details

• 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