Ovid: Amores: Volume I - Text and Prolegomena

by J.C. McKeown

The first volume of this major commentary begins appropriately with Prolegomena, before offering a text of Ovid's Amores . The Prolegomena has eight chapters: Tenerorum Lusor Amorum; Doctrina; Recitation; Chronology; The Arrangement of the Poems; The Title; Metre; The Text. Succinct, clear and learned, these chapters alone form an excellent all-round introduction to Ovid as a love-poet, and touch on many aspects of more general relevance to Augustan...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0905205693
• ISBN13: 9780905205694
• Release Date: December 1987
• Publisher: Francis Cairns Publications
• Length: 220 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.4" x 8.5"