John Barsby Ed (2 results)

Softcover. Condition: Very Good-. No Dust Jacket. Pencilling to latin text.; 202 pages.

Paperback. Condition: Gut. IX, 180 p. minimal berieben, Bleistifteintrag auf Schmutztitel, sonst gut und sauber / minimally rubbed, pencil entry on half title, otherwise good and clean. - This edition of the first book of Ovids Amores was first published in 1973 by OUP. It has been kept in print by BCP because it remains an outstandingly useful volume. It was one of two editions (the other being Gordon Williams Horace Odes III, 1969) in which OUP pioneered a new kind of continuous running commentary particularly suited to short poems, one likely to be more illuminating than a series of disconnected notes on isolated problems, which may contribute little to the total understanding of the poem as the poet conceived it. This approach was intended to promote in sixth-formers and undergraduates not just an understanding of the Latin but a critical appreciation of literary quality. In this aim the edition has been a continued success. / CONTENTS INTRODUCTION 1. Ovid 2. Love-Elegy 3. The Amores 4. Metre 5. Style 6. The Text FURTHER READING ABBREVIATIONS SIGLA TEXT, TRANSLATIONS, AND COMMENTARIES APPENDIX OF PARALLEL POEMS AND VERSIONS INDEX. ISBN 9780906515457 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 248.…