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Ovid, Amores: Text, Prolegomena, and Commentary (Arca, Classical and Medieval Texts, Papers, and Monographs, 20, <22) (English and Latin Edition) - Hardcover
Synopsis
The first volume of this major commentary begins appropriately with Prolegomena, before offering a text of Ovid's Amores. The Prolegomena has eight chapters: Tenerorum Lusor Amorum; Doctrina; Recitation; Chronology; The Arrangement of the Poems; The Title; Metre; The Text. Succinct, clear and learned, these chapters alone form an excellent all-round introduction to Ovid as a love-poet, and touch on many aspects of more general relevance to Augustan and Hellenistic poetry.
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Two of the remaining three volumes are in print and available, the Commentary on Book I (1989) and the Commentary on Book II (1998). The final volume, the Commentary on Book III, is still in preparation.
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(From Preface, p.vii) Few ancient poets evoke such widely differing responses from their readers as does Ovid. Some are enthralled by his brilliant wit and wonderful command of language. Others dismiss those same qualities as disappointing lasciuia. The latter view, not without its adherents in antiquity, seems to predominate nowadays. How else can one explain the lack of substantial modern commentaries on so many of his works and the general neglect or, at best, lip-service which he suffers in accounts of Augustan poetry? It is now almost twenty-five years since I first read an Amores-poem. That elegy was 3.9. As I later came to realise, the lament for Tibullus is in some respects untypical of the collection as a whole. Nevertheless, the elegantly fantastic conception of the poem and the musical power of lines such as Memnona si mater, mater plorauit Achillem and quid pater Ismario, quid mater profuit Orpheo? inspired me with an enthusiasm and admiration for Ovid's poetry which many years of detailed study have not diminished, but rather increased.
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