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Record Nr.

UNISA996237748203316

Autore

Reeson James

Titolo

Ovid Heroides 11,13 and 14 : a commentary / / by James Reeson

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Leiden, The Netherlands ; ; Boston ; ; Köln : , : Brill, , [2001]

©2001

ISBN

90-04-35100-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xii, 357 pages)

Collana

Mnemosyne, bibliotheca classica Batava. Supplementum ; ; 221

Disciplina

871.01

Soggetti

Epistolary poetry, Latin - History and criticism

Love poetry, Latin - History and criticism

Man-woman relationships in literature

Mythology, Classical, in literature

Love-letters in literature

Women in literature

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Originally presented as the author's thesis (doctoral)--University of Newcastle upon Tyne, 1999.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (pages [315]-322) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Preliminary Material -- PREFACE -- LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS -- INTRODUCTION -- TEXT -- CONSPECTUS CODICUM -- SIGLA -- COMPARATIVE TABLE -- COMMENTARIES -- COMMENTARY ON HEROIDES 11, CANACE TO MACAREUS -- COMMENTARY ON HEROIDES 13, LAODAMIA TO PROTESILAUS -- COMMENTARY ON HEROIDES 14 HYPERMESTRA TO LYNCEUS -- LIST OF REFERENCES -- INDEXES -- LATIN WORDS -- GENERAL -- PASSAGES REFERRED TO IN OVID -- PASSAGES REFERRED TO IN OTHER AUTHORS -- SUPPLEMENTS TO MNEMOSYNE.

Sommario/riassunto

The volume provides a full literary and textual commentary on three of the verse epistles ( Heroides ) by the Roman poet Ovid (43 BC. – AD. 17): the letter of Canace to her brother-lover Macareus; of Laodamia to the war-hero Protesilaus; and of Hypermestra to Lynceus, the cousin whose life she recently spared. These three poems, together with the letters of Medea (recently the subject of a commentary in the same series) and Sappho, formed the last of Ovid’s three books of heroine letters. The introduction discusses Ovid’s innovative use both of his



sources and of the epistolary form. A text with selective apparatus is provided for each of the three poems, and the detailed commentary is fully indexed.