Beschreibung:
Anita Nikkanen is a Research Fellow in Classical Philology at the Center for Hellenic Studies, Harvard University, USA. She taught Classics at Northwood College, London, UK, and has been a Departmental Teaching Fellow for Classics and Comparative Literature at Harvard University, USA.
This is the first intermediate-student edition of a selection of Latin love elegy. Propertius 1.1, 1.3 and 2.14, Tibullus 1.1 and 1.3 and Ovid's Amores 1.1, 2.5, 2.7 and 2.8 are included as Latin text with an accompanying commentary and vocabulary. Focusing on a deliberately limited number of poems, this edition is designed to be manageable for students reading the text for the first time while also perfectly encapsulating the interest of elegy as a genre and inspiring further study of it. A detailed introduction explains points of historical and stylistic interest, and includes analysis of three further poems: Propertius 4.7, Tibullus 2.4 and Ovid Amores 2.19.