Selections from Propertius, Tibullus and Ovid
An Edition for Intermediate Students
- 184 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
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About This Book
This is the first intermediate-student edition of a selection of Latin love elegy. Propertius 1.1, 1.3 and 2.14, Tibullus 1.1 and 1.3 and Ovid's Amores 1.1, 2.5, 2.7 and 2.8 are included as Latin text with an accompanying commentary and vocabulary. Focusing on a deliberately limited number of poems, this edition is designed to be manageable for students reading the text for the first time while also perfectly encapsulating the interest of elegy as a genre and inspiring further study of it. A detailed introduction explains points of historical and stylistic interest, and includes analysis of three further poems: Propertius 4.7, Tibullus 2.4 and Ovid Amores 2.19. Propertius, Tibullus and Ovid are our three main writers of Latin love elegy. The selected poems depict the bitter-sweet love affairs of the poet-lovers and their mistresses, from the heartbreak of rejection to the elation at love reciprocated. While Propertius's and Ovid's setting is the city and their poems show us such details of urbane Roman life as drinking parties and elaborate hair-dressing, Tibullus introduces the idyll of the countryside to the genre. Their sophisticated poems combine intense emotion with wit and irony, and celebrate the life of love and their mistresses, Propertius's Cynthia, Tibullus's Delia and Nemesis, and Ovid's Corinna.
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| abdo, abdere, abdidi, abditum | hide, conceal |
| abeo, abire, abivi or abii, abitum | go away |
| abstineo, abstinere, abstinui, abstentum | hold back, keep off |
| ac | and |
| accendo, accendere, accendi, accensum | kindle, set on fire, light |
| accipio, accipere, accepi, acceptum | receive |
| accubo, accubere, accubui, accubitum | lie down; sleep with |
| acer, acris, acre | severe, fierce, eager |
| acervus -i, m | heap, pile |
| Achilles, Achillis, m | Achilles |
| acies, aciei, f | line of battle, battle-array |
| acutus -a -um | sharp, clear |
| ad (+ accusative) | to; by, next to, beside |
| addisco, addiscere, addidici | learn in addition |
| addo, addere, addidi, additum | add, add to |
| adeo, adire, adii, aditum | reach, approach |
| adfecto, adfectare, adfectavi, adfectatum | aspire to, strive after, pursue, endeavour to m... |
Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- About the Series
- Title
- Contents
- Preface
- Introduction
- Text
- Commentary Notes
- Vocabulary
- Copyright