Ovid

Heroides: Select Epistles

Ovid, Peter E. Knox (University of Colorado, Boulder)

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Cambridge University Press
18 March 1996

Series: Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics

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.

By: Ovid
Edited by: Peter E. Knox (University of Colorado Boulder)
Imprint: Cambridge University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 203mm, Width: 127mm, Spine: 19mm
Weight: 360g
ISBN: 9780521368346
ISBN 10: 0521368340
Series: Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics
Pages: 340
Publication Date: 18 March 1996
Audience: Professional and scholarly , College/higher education , Undergraduate , Primary
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

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.

Reviews for Ovid: Heroides: Select Epistles

"""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 Ovid's Heroides, useful for advanced undergraduates, graduate students, and professional classicists. Moreover, careful study of the notes can serve as an excellent introduction to the broader topic of Ovidian language, style, and metrics."" Betty Rose Nagle, Classical World"