Metamorphoses. Book VIII. Edited with an Introduction and Commentary by A.S. Hollis.

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ISBN 10: 0198144601 / ISBN 13: 9780198144601

Editore: Oxford University Press, 1984

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Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1983. First paperback ed.1983. XXX,168p. Paperback. Tail spine bit false glued. Stamp 'damaged' on title page. 'An up-to-date commentary on an attractive book of the 'Metamorphoses' such as Book VIII is greatly to be welcomed (.). Hollis writes easily and agreeably, and his commentary can be read with pleasure as well as with profit. (.) Hollis has read Homer and the Hellenistic poets, also the papyrus fragments and the mythographical sources, to excellent effect; and the material which he has collected to illustrate the origins of the stories used by Ovid and their treatment by other writers is of great value. (.) Where I think that guidance and illustration are lacking is in the matter of Ovidian usage and latinity.' (E.J. KENNEY in The Classical Review (New Series), 1972, pp.214-16). Codice articolo 55050

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Titolo: Metamorphoses. Book VIII. Edited with an ...

Casa editrice: Oxford University Press

Data di pubblicazione: 1984

Legatura: Brossura

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Riassunto:

A scholarly edition of a work by Ovid. The edition presents an authoritative text, together with an introduction, commentary notes, and scholarly apparatus.

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Publius Ovidius Naso, a Roman poet known to the English-speaking world as Ovid, wrote on topics of love, abandoned women, and mythological transformations. Ranked alongside Virgil and Horace as one of the three canonical poets of Latin literature, Ovid was generally considered the greatest master of the elegiac couplet.