Ovid Heroides Select Epistles [Paperback]

A commentary on seven of Ovid's twenty-one epistles in elegiac verse.The Heroides are a collection of letters in alegiac verse supposedly addressed by heroines of mythology to their absent lovers or husbands. Intended to provide the student with guidance in interpretation, this text includes the first full-scale English commentary in this century on a selection of the Heroides.The Heroides are a collection of letters in alegiac verse supposedly addressed by heroines of mythology to their absent lovers or husbands. Intended to provide the student with guidance in interpretation, this text includes the first full-scale English commentary in this century on a selection of the Heroides.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.Introduction: 1. The poet; 2. The collection; 3. The Epistula Sapphus; 4. The epistles; 5. The transmission of the text; P. OVIDI NASONIS EPISTVULAE HEROIDVM SELECTAE; INCERTI AVCTORIS EPISTVLA SAPPHVS AD PHAONEM; Commentary; Bibliography; Indexes to the commentary. 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 OvilÃ