The Student’s Ovid: Selections From the Metamorphoses (Oklahoma Classical Culture) - Softcover

Ovid

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0806132205 ISBN 13: 9780806132204

Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press, 2000

Synopsis

Ideally suited to intermediate to advanced college-level students, The Student’s Ovid offers twenty-one selections from the Metamorphoses, with notes to aid translation and interpretation. The introduction includes an essay on Ovid’s life and works, an outline of the structure of the Metamorphoses, and tips on Latin poetic forms and usage.

Accompanying each Latin passage is an introduction that provides background on the myths and their literary history, both in Ovid and in other classical authors. The detailed notes on each selection are designed to help students read and understand the Latin for themselves.

Other special features of this book include:

· a glossary of mythological characters

· lists of stories grouped by theme to help teachers design courses to suit their students’ interests

· discussions of the basic concepts of classical meter, Latin pronunciation, and accentuation

· reference charts on the declension of Greek nouns to aid the reading of proper names

· a select bibliography of translations and secondary studies

About this title

Language Notes

Text: English, Latin

Edition details

• Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
• Publication date: 2000
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0806132205
• ISBN 13: 9780806132204
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 224
• Editor: Musgrove Margaret Worsham