Lydia, a Poem From the Appendix Vergiliana - Introduction, Text, Translation, and Commentary

The Lydia is a bucolic monody lamenting the singer's separation from his beloved, Lydia. The new Latin text, accompanied by an English translation, offers numerous improvements against that of previous editions, while the commentary provides comprehensive textual, linguistic, and literary exegesis of the poem in its cultural context.

List of contents

• Preface


• Introduction


• 1: The Lydia and the Dirae: unity, chronology, authorship


• 2: Poetic frameworks


• 3: A note on the language and metre


• 4: Manuscript tradition and the text


• LYDIA


• Text and apparatus criticus


• Translation


• Commentary


• Bibliography


• Indexes

About the author

After study in Moscow, Berlin and Leeds, Boris Kayachev went on to held research fellowships in Trondheim, Dublin, Moscow, Oxford and Basel. Boris has published on a wide array of Greek and Latin poetry, but the main focus of his research has been on the Appendix Vergiliana. The present commentary on the Lydia follows on his earlier work on the Ciris (Allusion and Allegory: Studies in the Ciris, 2016; Ciris, a Poem from the Appendix Vergiliana, 2020), and will in turn be followed by a commentary on the Dirae.

Summary

The Lydia is a bucolic monody lamenting the singer's separation from his beloved, Lydia. The new Latin text, accompanied by an English translation, offers numerous improvements against that of previous editions, while the commentary provides comprehensive textual, linguistic, and literary exegesis of the poem in its cultural context.

Product details

• Authors: Boris Kayachev
• Assisted by: Boris Kayachev (Editor), Kayachev Boris (Editor)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.11.2023
• EAN: 9780192874511
• ISBN: 978-0-19-287451-1
• No. of pages: 180
• Series: Pseudepigrapha Latina
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies; POETRY / General, Poetry, Latin, LITERARY CRITICISM / Poetry, LITERARY CRITICISM / Ancient & Classical, LITERARY COLLECTIONS / General, Classical texts, Literary studies: classical, early & medieval, Literary studies: poetry & poets, Poetry by individual poets, Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval, Literary studies: poetry and poets, Classic and pre-20th century poetry, BCE to c 500 CE, BCE period – Protohistory, Ancient, classical and medieval texts