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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
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Great Textbook!
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...
Published on February 16, 2001 by Briana Titus
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0 of 12 people found the following review helpful:
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Caveat Lector! Translation: Reader Beware!
Readers should note that if you do not read Latin (and I don't), you will not be able to read the actual epistles in this book - only the introduction and the commentary. Since I will have to order another version of the Heroides to actually read the ancient text, I cannot yet comment on the English commentary included in this book! I am giving it a two for now.
Published on November 28, 2000 by Kiki D.
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
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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!
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
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Great prof, better book,
By nicholas newlin (Washington, DC) - See all my reviews
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.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
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A useful and intelligent commentary,
By A Customer
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!
0 of 12 people found the following review helpful:
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Caveat Lector! Translation: Reader Beware!,
By Kiki D. (Detroit, MI USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Ovid: Heroides: Select Epistles (Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics) (Paperback)
Readers should note that if you do not read Latin (and I don't), you will not be able to read the actual epistles in this book - only the introduction and the commentary. Since I will have to order another version of the Heroides to actually read the ancient text, I cannot yet comment on the English commentary included in this book! I am giving it a two for now.
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Ovid: Heroides: Select Epistles (Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics) by Ovid (Paperback - January 26, 1996)
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