Elegiac Extracts From Tibullus and Ovid

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Michael C. J. Putnam is MacMillan Professor of Classics and Professor of Comparative Literature emeritus at Brown University. His many other books include "Virgil's Epic Designs" and "Horace's Carmen Saeculare ", "Poetic Interplay", and "A Companion to Virgil's Aeneid and its Tradition".
Julia Haig Gaisser is Professor of Latin emeritus at Bryn Mawr College. Her book "The Fortunes of Apuleius and the Golden Ass " won the 2009 Charles J. Goodwin Award of Merit, the highest award for a work of Classics, given by the American Philological Association. Her other books include "Catullus in English"and "Pierio Valeriano on the Ill-fortune of Learned Men".

Ovid Publius Ovidius Naso (43 bcece 17 or 18) was born into a wealthy Roman family and became the most distinguished poet of his time. He died in exile on the Black Sea, far from Rome and his literary life. David Raeburn is a lecturer in classics at Oxford University. He has translated Sophocles and directed numerous school and university productions of Greek tragedies.