Ovid: Ars Amatoria, Book III

by Ovid, Roy K. Gibson

Overview

Book 3 of Ovid's Ars Amatoria teaches women how to catch and keep men and is presented in this modern edition, based on the revised Oxford Classical Text by E.J. Kenney. In his extensive introduction and commentary, Gibson responds to recent developments in interpreting didactic poetry and the treatment of women by classical authors, especially the Latin elegiac poets. He explores how the interests of male readers are covertly served in a book addressed to women.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780521813709
Publisher:	Cambridge University Press
Publication date:	04/24/2003
Series:	Cambridge Classical Texts and Commentaries , #40
Pages:	458
Product dimensions:	5.51(w) x 8.50(h) x 1.18(d)

About the Author

Roy K. Gibson is Lecturer in Classics at the University of Manchester.

Table of Contents

Introduction; Text and critical apparatus; Method of the commentary; Commentary.

Editorial Reviews

"This is a most welcome volume. Advanced students and scholars interested in amatory, didactic, and Augustan poetry in general will find in Gibson's Ars 3 a prized addition to their libraries." New England Classical Journal, Thomas A. Suits, University of Connecticut, Storrs

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