Epistulae ex Ponto. Book I. Edited by G. Tissol. - Ovid
Epistulae Ex Ponto Book I
KORTE INHOUD
'The stated intention of the author was to produce a teaching tool. In this Tissol succeeds admirably. The book is concise and relatively user-friendly, even if readers need to page back and forth from the text of the poems to the appropriate commentary. The general set-up is predictable. The usual Preface and List of Abbreviations is followed by an Introduction of twenty-eight pages (pp.1-28). Topics covered in the Introduction are, in turn ?Letters from exile: a new vessel for old grief,? ?The literary background?, ?The higher genres and Ovidian hyperbole,? ?Names in the Epistulae ex Ponto, ?Observations on style,? ?Fata libellorum: remarks on the early reception of the Epistulae ex Ponto? and ?A note on the text.? Next follows the full text of Book I in just over twenty pages (pp.31-52). The author has, as explained in the above ?note,? slightly adapted Richmond?s 1990 Teubner edition, sometimes choosing alternative readings and providing only a brief apparatus that (sensibly) reports ?only [those] reading...
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Cambridge, 2014. IX,191p. Paperback. Series: Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics. [New] [Auteur: OVID,] [Uitgever: Cambridge University Press] [Jaar: 2014] [Titel: Epistulae ex Ponto. Book I. Edited by G. Tissol.]
