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This is an electronic edition of the complete poems complemented by Ovid biography. This book features the table of contents linked to every chapter. The book was designed for optimal navigation on the Kindle, PDA, Smartphone, and other electronic readers. It is formatted to display on all electronic devices including the Kindle, Smartphones and other Mobile Devices with a small display.

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Ovid. Kindle Edition.
Ovid's Metamorphoses, Amores, Ars Amatoria, Remedia Amoris, Faciei Feminae are included in the collection, making it an excellent ebook. ... Read more

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This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishings Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting, preserving, and promoting the worlds literature. Kessinger Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone! ... Read more

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Student Edition Latin text based on Loeb text by Goold contains: Met. I.452-567; IV 55-166; VIII.183-235; VIII.616-724; X.238-297; Amores I.1, I.3, I.9, I.11, I.12, III.15. Special Features Introduction for each passage Vocabulary and notes on same page as text Complete vocabulary in back Separate section of translation questions and answers on facing pages Glossaries of metrical terms and figures of speech High frequency vocabulary list Translation tips for reading Ovid

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Ovid Legamus Transitional Reader - ISBN 0865166048
Ovid With Love: Selections from Ars Amatoria Books I and II - ISBN 0865160155

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Ovid's Metamorphoses
I am using this book in my Latin class.It has provided assistance with vocabulary and some translation.This book does all that a book should for a foreign language book.Cindy

Excellent for learning to read "real" latin
I have been taking an intensive second year latin course, and we have used quite a few book during the class.This is by far the best for enabling you to learn to read latin that hasn't been made up specifically for students.

Each page contains 4-8 lines of latin, which are numbered every 5 lines.This takes about a third of the page.The rest of each page is left for extensive notes on the latin.The notes include unusual vocabulary, historical notes, translation of unusual phrases, and explainations of constructs used.For example it points out instances of chiasmus, which are arrangments of words in an ABBA pattern.This kind of thing is very useful because it allows you to get used to the unusual but regular word ordering that is found in latin poetry.One other thing I especially liked about the notes is that they always gave a full dictionary entry when saying what a word means (so you can then determine by the morphology what role the word is playing).

The book also has several other sections.First is a question and answers section which is a good place to check when anything is confusing you.It will point show what selected words and clauses are doing in a sentance, what they're modifying, disambiguate cases, etc.There are sections on different uses and terms related to meter, as well as figures of speech common in poetry.The final feature is one of the most useful....a dictionary with every single word used throughout the book.It is much faster to look a word up here rather than in a complete dictionary, and it provides the meaning that is most likely to be used in the context of the poems.

Overall, this is a great book. ... Read more

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Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso, 43BC-16AD) was a Roman poet, author of "Amores," "Heroides," "Ars Amatoria," and "Metamorphoses." A historical, biographical, and literary study of his poetry and influence. Hermes series on classical authors. ... Read more

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Disgruntled student
I'm amazed that a clearly disgruntled former student (she/he probably didn't get the A he/she thought paying UNC tuition entitled her/him to!) would write such an intemperate review of Mack's Ovid book. She is simply wrong. This is a lovely book: well researched, well written, and full of things that ordinary readers like me needed to know about Ovid and his afterlife in literature after him. Books in this series are meant to be lively, thoughtful introductions to major Classical writers. Mack's book is just this. I hope Aristotle gets back to his review!

Balance
The previous reviewer prompted me to buy this book. It sounds like somebody needed his professor to hold his hand during class - she didn't - makes me want to read the book! I will update this review when I am finished with the book.

no way
Mack's is not a good book.Her scholarship is nonexistent and her writing is awkward.In addition she is an incompetent teacher, mean to her students and completely unencouraging.Ovid and Classics have suffered at her hands. ... Read more

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The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions to preserve these invaluable works in the largest archive of its kind. Now for the first time these high-quality digital copies of original 18th century manuscripts are available in print, making them highly accessible to libraries, undergraduate students, and independent scholars.
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Bodleian Library (Oxford)

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London : printed for J. and R. Tonson, 1736. 2v.,plates : ill. ; 12° ... Read more

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After being banished to the Black Sea by the Roman emperor Augustus in 8 AD, Ovid responded in verse by composing the "Tristia and Epistulae ex Ponto". Here the poet establishes for himself a place of intellectual refuge, where he can reflect out loud on how and why his own art has been legally banned and left for dead on the margins of the empire. As the last of the Augustan poets, Ovid is in a unique position to take stock of his own standing and of the place of poetry itself in a Rome deeply restructured during the lengthy rule of the city's first emperor. This study considers exile in the "Tristia and Epistulae ex Ponto" as at once a place of genuine suffering and a metaphor for poetry's marginalization from Rome. It analyzes, in particular, Ovid's representation of himself and the emperor Augustus against the background of Roman religion, law, and poetry. ... Read more

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The "Heroides", written by Ovid some 2000 years ago, consists of a series of imaginary letters by legendary females of antiquity to their hapless lovers or husbands. The verse letters - purportedly penned by such heroines as Helen, Medea, Penelope, Dido, and Sappho - are the outpourings of women who have been cruelly victimized, yet they are written in the witty and ironic tone for which Ovid is famous. As a source of inspiration for other poets, as a model for the episotolary novel and the dramatic monologue, and as feminine footnotes to Greek prehistory, the letters have fascinated readers from Ovid's time to the present. The "Heroides" is now available in a verse translation written by the poet Daryl Hine. His rhymed couplets convey Ovid's unmistakable voice, by turns frivolous and pathetic, learned and racy. Each of the 21 letters (18 by women and 3 by thier lovers) is preceded by a translator's note identifying the writer and her lover and sketching the relevant background. A chronological rearrangement of the poems, to accord with mythological time, is intended to enhance their value as a companion to any reading of classical literature and mythology. ... Read more

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This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone! ... Read more

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This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR'd book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and jumbled words.This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book. ... Read more

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In a world of gods and monsters, nothing is as it seems. When a deadly serpent's teeth are sown in the ground, warriors spring from the bloody soil. Only a great man can tame them and fulfil his destiny. Far away, Medusa, snakes writhing in her hair, meets her nemesis; the princess Andromeda is chained to a rock; people are transformed into owls, frogs, even mountains; a boy falls tragically in love with his own reflection. Enter a universe where love is cruel, men are destroyed by the gods and treachery is paid for in blood. ... Read more

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One of the wittiest Roman poets, Ovid (43BC - 17 or 18 AD) was banished in 8AD to Constanza, a remote barbarous outpost on the Black Sea, for an unknown crime against the Emperor Augustus. Pouring out polished verse, appealing for a pardon that never came, and describing the horrors of the land to which he had been exiled, he continued to write there until his death in 17AD. His poems in exile consist of "Tristia" (poems of lamentation) and the "Episulae Ex Ponto" (Black Sea letters) mostly short elegies or poems in defence of his career ("Tristia II"); and the "Ibis", a venemous sustained elegaic curse of an unknown enemy. ... Read more