Ovid, Amores (Book I) / William Turpin ; with contributions by Bart Huelsenbeck, Bret Mulligan, Christopher Francese, and JoAnne Miller.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Turpin, William, 1952-

Contributor:

Huelsenbeck, Bart.

Mulligan, Bret.

Francese, Christopher.

Miller, Joanne.

Open Book Publishers.

Open Textbook Library, distributor.

Series:

Classics textbooks ; 2054-2445 v. 6.

Dickinson College commentaries ; 2059-5743 v. 2.

Open Textbook Library.

[Classics textbooks, 2054-2445 ; v. 6]

Dickinson College commentaries, 2059-5743 ; v. 2

Open textbook library

Language:

English

Latin

Subjects (All):

Ovid, 43 B.C.-17 A.D. or 18 A.D.

Ovid.

Ovid, 43 B.C.-17 A.D. or 18 A.D. Amores.

Love poetry, Latin--Translations into English.

Love poetry, Latin.

Erotic poetry, Latin--Translations into English.

Erotic poetry, Latin.

Amores (Ovid).

Genre:

Electronic books.

Translations.

Physical Description:

1 online resource : color illustrations.

Updated irregularly.

Distribution:

Minneapolis : Open Textbook Library.

Other Title:

Ovid, Amores (Book one)

Amores (Book 1)

Amores (Book one)

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Open Book Publishers, ©2016-

Language Note:

Text in Latin; introductory material, notes and translation in English.

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

text file

Summary:

"From Catullus to Horace, the tradition of Latin erotic poetry produced works of literature which are still read throughout the world. Ovid's Amores, written in the first century BC, is arguably the best-known and most popular collection in this tradition. Born in 43 BC, Ovid was educated in Rome in preparation for a career in public services before finding his calling as a poet. He may have begun writing his Amores as early as 25 BC. Although influenced by poets such as Catullus, Ovid demonstrates a much greater awareness of the funny side of love than any of his predecessors. The Amores is a collection of romantic poems centered on the poet's own complicated love life: he is involved with a woman, Corinna, who is sometimes unobtainable, sometimes compliant, and often difficult and domineering. Whether as a literary trope, or perhaps merely as a human response to the problems of love in the real world, the principal focus of these poems is the poet himself, and his failures, foolishness, and delusions. By the time he was in his forties, Ovid was Rome's most important living poet; his Metamorphoses, a kaleidoscopic epic poem about love and hatred among the gods and mortals, is one of the most admired and influential books of all time. In AD 8, Ovid was exiled by Augustus to Romania, for reasons that remain obscure. He died there in AD 17. The Amores were originally published in five books, but reissued around 1 AD in their current three-book form. This edition of the first book of the collection contains the complete Latin text of Book 1, along with commentary, notes and full vocabulary. Both entertaining and thought-provoking, this book will provide an invaluable aid to students of Latin and general readers alike. This book contain embedded audio files of the original text read aloud by Aleksandra Szypowska."--Open Textbook Library.

Contents:

Preface

Abbreviations

1. The Life of Ovid

2. The Amores

3. The Manuscript Tradition of Ovid's Amores / by Bart Huelsenbeck, with the assistance of Dan Plekhov

4. Select Bibliography

5. Scansion

Prosody

Elision

The elegiac couplet

Reading aloud

6. Epigram: preface from the author

Notes on the Epigram

7. Amores 1.1: Ovid finds his muse

Suggested reading

Amores1.1

Notes

8. Amores 1.2: Conquered by Cupid

Amores 1.2

9. Amores 1.3: Just give me a chance

Suggested reading Amores 1.3

10. Amores 1.4: Secret signs

Appendix: the vir

Amores 1.4

11. Amores 1.5: The siesta

Amores 1.5

12. Amores 1.6: On the doorstep

Amores 1.6

13. Amores 1.7: Violence and love

Amores 1.7

14. Amores 1.8: The bad influence

Amores 1.8

15. Amores 1.9: Love and war

Amores 1.9

16. Amores 1.10: Love for sale

Amores 1.10

17. Amores 1.11: Sending a message

Amores 1.11

18. Amores 1.12: Shooting messengers

Amores 1.12

19. Amores 1.13: Oh how I hate to get up in the morning

Amores 1.13

20. Amores 1.14: Bad hair

Amores 1.14

21. Amores 1.15: Poetic immortality

Amores 1.15

Full vocabulary for Ovid's Amores, Book 1.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 11-12).

This bibliographic record is available under the Creative Commons CC0 "No Rights Reserved" license.

Description based on online version, 2016; Title from PDF (viewed on August 28, 2017)

Contains:

Ovid, 43 B.C.-17 A.D. or 18 A.D. Amores. Liber 1.

Ovid, 43 B.C.-17 A.D. or 18 A.D. Amores. Liber 1. English.

ISBN:

9781783741649

1783741643

9781783741656

1783741651

9781783741663

178374166X

OCLC:

1002065417

Access Restriction:

Open Access Unrestricted online access