| #395326 in Books | imusti | 1996-01-26 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 7.32 x.75 x4.84l,.80 | File type: PDF | 340 pages | Cambridge University Press||1 of 26 people found the following review helpful.| Caveat Lector! Translation: Reader Beware!|By Kiki D.|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||"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..."
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 ...
You can specify the type of files you want, for your device.Ovid: Heroides: Select Epistles (Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics) | Ovid. Which are the reasons I like to read books. Great story by a great author.
