In this volume, Professor Knox provides the first full-scale commentary in English in this century on a selection from Ovid's Heroides, a collection of letters in elegiac verse supposedly addressed by heroines of mythology to their absent lovers or husbands. This edition is intended to provide students of Latin literature with guidance in the interpretation of these poems. The Introduction also includes a general account of Ovid's career and the place of the Heroides in the development of Augustan poetry.
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"Students and instructors alike will find Knox's observations on Ovid's language, style, and meter, as well as his notes on single words and phrase, comprehensive and stimulating. The bibliography and indexes are thorough and up-to-date. Highly recommended..." Choice
"Peter Knox, an outstanding Ovidian Scholar, has produced a typically thorough, in many ways excellent, commentary on a selection of Heroides for the Cambridge "yellow and green" series." Sergio Casali, The Classical Journal
"Knox provides an introduction to Ovid's Heroides, useful for advanced undergraduates, graduate students, and professional classicists. Moreover, careful study of the notes can serve as an excellent introduction to the broader topic of Ovidian language, style, and metrics." Betty Rose Nagle, Classical World
"Peter Knox, an outstanding Ovidian Scholar, has produced a typically thorough, in many ways excellent, commentary on a selection of Heroides for the Cambridge "yellow and green" series." Sergio Casali, The Classical Journal
"Knox provides an introduction to Ovid's Heroides, useful for advanced undergraduates, graduate students, and professional classicists. Moreover, careful study of the notes can serve as an excellent introduction to the broader topic of Ovidian language, style, and metrics." Betty Rose Nagle, Classical World
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Great Textbook!,
This review is from: Ovid: Heroides: Select Epistles (Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics) (Hardcover)
My Latin class is using this text this quarter, and we find it excellent. It includes a large introduction with explanations of the myths involved, and which tells about Ovid's life. The book also includes many, many notes that give suggested translations for difficult lines and explain ambiguous references. The text includes Heroides letters 1, 2, 5, 6, 7, 10, 11, and the "incerti auctoris epistula Sapphus ad Phaonem". Enjoy!
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Great prof, better book,
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This review is from: Ovid: Heroides: Select Epistles (Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics) (Paperback)
Of course if you don't read Latin you don't want to read this book, that is what it is for! The epistles are well selected and the commentary is right on...exactly what I would expect of Knox.
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A useful and intelligent commentary,
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This review is from: Ovid: Heroides: Select Epistles (Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics) (Paperback)
This commentary is erudite and insightful, full of information that is useful to scholars of all levels. What a fantastic book!
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Haec tua Penelope lento tibi mittit, Vlixe; nil mihi rescribas attinet: ipse ueni. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
micuere sinus, solue ratem, rising tricolon, double epistles, ossa cubent, instrumental ablative, patterned line, sense pause, first attested, classical prose, elegiac verse, est mihi, biographical tradition, love elegy, first couplet, rhetorical point Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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Haec tua Penelope lento tibi mittit, Vlixe; nil mihi rescribas attinet: ipse ueni. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
micuere sinus, solue ratem, rising tricolon, double epistles, ossa cubent, instrumental ablative, patterned line, sense pause, first attested, classical prose, elegiac verse, est mihi, biographical tradition, love elegy, first couplet, rhetorical point Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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- Epistulae heroidum (Texte und Kommentare) (Latin Edition) by Ovid in Front Matter (1), Front Matter (2), and Back Matter
- Daphnis and Chloe (Penguin Classics) by Longus on page 145
- Collectanea Alexandrina by J. U. Powell in Back Matter
- The Oxford Classical Dictionary, 2nd Edition by N. G. L. Hammond in Back Matter
- Elegies of Albius Tibullus (Latin texts and commentaries) by Kirby Smith in Back Matter
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