This is an edition with commentary of six poems by the Roman poet Ovid. These are the letters, as Ovid imagined them, exchanged between three famous pairs of lovers, Paris and Helen of Troy, Hero and Leander, and Acontius and Cydippe. Interest in Ovid has never been more lively than it is today, and this book will have much to offer students at all levels. This is the first commentary in any language since 1898 on these "double" letters. It complements Peter E. Knox's selection of the single epistles in the same series.
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"...the volume provides ample expert assistance for understanding what is going on in each sentence, and in each poem..." James J. O'Hara, New England Classical Journal
"...we owe in great part to Kenney's own sound editorial efforts. Teachers and students should get a lot from this text, which earns admiration for both Ovid and Kenney." William S. Anderson, Classical World
"...the most advanced undergraduates would profit from using this commentary. For them, for their teachers, and for all professional Latinists, kenney has admirably fulfilled his aim -- `to help others to appreciate these brilliant poems as warmly' as he himself does." Betty Rose Nagle, The Classical Outlook
"Teachers and students should get a lot from this text, which earns admiration for both Ovid and Kenney." William S. Anderson, Classical World
"...we owe in great part to Kenney's own sound editorial efforts. Teachers and students should get a lot from this text, which earns admiration for both Ovid and Kenney." William S. Anderson, Classical World
"...the most advanced undergraduates would profit from using this commentary. For them, for their teachers, and for all professional Latinists, kenney has admirably fulfilled his aim -- `to help others to appreciate these brilliant poems as warmly' as he himself does." Betty Rose Nagle, The Classical Outlook
"Teachers and students should get a lot from this text, which earns admiration for both Ovid and Kenney." William S. Anderson, Classical World
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'This (wish for) your health'; the conventional greeting (OLD s.v. 8) is identified with the letter itself: cf. Tr. 5.13.1, Ex P. 1.3.1, 2.2.3. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
double epistles, mea uota, quod ames, pone metum, quod amo, uisa est, vox propria, metrical convenience, legal flavour, tua est, nunc est Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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'This (wish for) your health'; the conventional greeting (OLD s.v. 8) is identified with the letter itself: cf. Tr. 5.13.1, Ex P. 1.3.1, 2.2.3. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
double epistles, mea uota, quod ames, pone metum, quod amo, uisa est, vox propria, metrical convenience, legal flavour, tua est, nunc est Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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- Lucky Jim by Kingsley Amis in Front Matter
- Abridged Greek-English Lexicon by H. G. Liddell in Front Matter
- Epistulae heroidum (Texte und Kommentare) (Latin Edition) by Ovid in Back Matter
- Homo Viator: Classical Essays for John Bramble by Michael Whitby in Back Matter
- The Cambridge History of Classical Literature: Volume 1, Greek Literature, Part 3, Philosophy, History and Oratory by P. E. Easterling in Front Matter
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- Roman Literary Culture: From Cicero to Apuleius (Ancient Society and History) by Elaine Fantham on page 292
- 'Counterfeiting' Shakespeare: Evidence, Authorship and John Ford's Funerall Elegye by Brian Vickers in Back Matter
- Ovid: Metamorphoses Book XIII (Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics) by Ovid in Back Matter
- Ovid's Poetics of Illusion by Philip Hardie in Back Matter
- Ovid: Fasti Book IV (Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics) by Ovid in Back Matter
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