Amores. Book 3 / Ovid ; edited with an introduction, translation, and commentary by P.J. Davis.

Oxford, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2023]

©2023

xiii, 384 pages ; 24 cm

This book aims to meet the long-felt need for a detailed commentary on the third book of Ovid's Amores. Its primary goal is to present readers with the information required for understanding Book 3, its place in the Amores, in Ovid's work more generally, and in the tradition of erotic elegy. It has a particuar focus on such matters as Ovid's allusion to and engagement with the works of earlier Roman love poets; the connections between elegies in Book 3 and poems in Books 1 and 2; the reworking of ideas and themes from Amores in Ovid's other erotic works; the verbal texture of Ovid's poetry, particularly his use of rhetoric and wit, and his employment of metrical and verbal patterns; the relationship between Amores and the political and cultural context of Augustan Rome; the elucidation of linguistic difficulties; and the discussion of textual problems, particularly the explanation of my choice of readings in disputed passages--Preface.

English; Latin

March 27, 2024

Includes bibliographical references (pages [343]-357) and indexes.

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