Ovid: Selections from Ars Amatoria Remedia Amoris (Latin Edition) [Paperback]

Ovid (Author), Graves Haydon Thompson (Editor)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0865163952 | ISBN-13: 978-0865163959 | Publication Date: December 1, 1997

This book contains 770 lines from Ars Amatoria, Books I and II, a full introduction on Ovid's life, 148 pages of vocabulary, and commentary that offers insights on Ovid's stylistic choices. The notes provide a wealth of information on Roman customs, mythology, history, and literary tradition.

Also available:

Ovid With Love: Selections from Ars Amatoria Books I and II - ISBN 0865160155
Petronius: Selections from the Satyricon - ISBN 0865162883

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Editorial Reviews

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Ovid with Love by P. Murgatroyd is an aptly named selection of 770 lines from Ars Amatoria 1 and 2 and with its 23 page introduction on Ovid's life, Augustan and pre-Augustan love poetry, 148 pages of commentary and complete vocabulary, it is a potentially useful sixth-form reader.

The importance of stylistic and metrical features in Ovid's writing has led the author to comment fully on them over the first 92 lines and then, progressively, to leave it to the pupils to make their own investigation; notes on comprehension, and these always precede those on literary criticism, are detailed throughout; indeed at times one feels that there is overkill: e.g., 2, 431 (OCT) nam modo Threicio Borea, modo currimus Euro; on 'Threicio' the note reads: Thrace was a cold wintry region to the North of Greece, and so in Greece the chill North Wind was often called 'Thracian' and described as having its home in Thrace (because it came from that direction).

However, as Murgatroyd points out, he has tried to bridge a number of levels in this edition and the notes, which are set separately at the end of the text, need be no more obtrusive than individually desired. There are advantages in being able to sample from two books of the Ars when the selection is as carefully made as this one and in criticizing the fullness of some notes one ought not to forget the plight of the weaker student. --Greece & Rome

Language Notes

Text: Latin
Introduction: English

Product Details

• Paperback: 152 pages
• Publisher: Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers (December 1, 1997)
• Language: Latin
• ISBN-10: 0865163952
• ISBN-13: 978-0865163959
• Product Dimensions: 8.8 x 5.9 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
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5.0 out of 5 stars The BEST Way to Read Latin Literature, March 13, 2000

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This review is from: Ovid: Selections from Ars Amatoria Remedia Amoris (Latin Edition) (Paperback)

Let me just say that if you can read Latin, this is the essential way to read the fantastic works of Ovid. These selections from the Ars Amatoria and the Remedia Amoris are very fun to translate, as well as applicable to our modern society. The great thing about this book, though, is that there are vocabulary definitions ON THE SAME PAGE as the text itself, thereby eliminating the boredom of shuffling through a Latin dictionary, not to mention his notes on difficult to translate sections. There is also a pull out small dictionary at the back of the book, which contains every word that appears more than 10 times in the work. Therefore, this is the only book you'll need to translate, as opposed to a Latin dictionary. This takes the fun out and leaves only the pleasures of reading Latin literature.