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Ovid: Metamorphoses III

English · Paperback / Softback

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This simple, utilitarian edition offers sixth-form and undergraduate students an introduction to the enchanted, sometimes violent, often sad, often funny world of the "Metamorphoses". Book III is ideal in this respect, for it possesses a homogeneity unusual among the fifteen books of the poem and follows the fortunes of the royal house of Thebes in episodes which are related at some length, allowing the reader to savour the individual quality of each story and fix its ''dramatis personae'' in mind and memory. The brief introduction places the book in its ancient context. Notes serve primarily to aid comprehension of the Latin but also give aesthetic and antiquarian information. A vocabulary is included.>

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Foreword
Introduction
1. The Poet
2. The Poem
3. The Poetry
4. Note on the Text
5. Genealogical Tables
6. Select Bibliography
Text
Abbreviations (Notes and Vocabulary)
Notes
Vocabulary


About the author










Publius Ovidius Naso, 43 BC- AD 17, was a Roman poet, born at Sulmo (Sulmona) in central Italy. Born into a wealthy Roman family and seemingly destined for a career in politics, he held some minor official posts before leaving public service to write, becoming one of the most distinguished poet of his time. His works include Amores, a collection of short love poems; Heroides, verse-letters written by mythological heroines to their lovers; Ars Amatoria, a satirical handbook on love; and Metamorphoses, his epic work on change. 


Product details

Authors Ovid
Assisted by A. R. Henderson (Editor)
Publisher Bloomsbury Academic
 
Languages English
Product format Paperback / Softback
Released 01.06.1991
 
EAN 9780906515020
ISBN 978-0-906515-02-0
No. of pages 138
Dimensions 148 mm x 228 mm x 12 mm
Series Latin Texts
Subjects Fiction > Narrative literature > Essays, feuilletons, literary criticism, interviews
Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics

LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Essays, Latin, LITERARY CRITICISM / Ancient & Classical, Literary studies: classical, early & medieval, Literary essays, Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval

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