Ovid: Amores Book II

Joan Booth is Emeritus Professor of Latin Language and Literature at the University of Leiden. She is the author of Catullus to Ovid: Reading Latin Love Elegy (Bristol Classical Press, 1999) and editor of Cicero on the Attack: Invective and Subversion in the Orations and Beyond (Classical Press of Wales, 2007).

• PrefaceAddendum 1999Abbreviations and Index of Works CitedIntroductionI. ‘The glory of the Paelignian people’: Ovid and his poetic career’II. ‘Poems a lass would like to hear’: love-elegyIII. ‘Frivolous muse’: The AmoresIV. What came naturally: Ovid’s elegiac styleV. The textVI. The translationText, Translation and DiscussionsApparatus CriticusCommentaryGeneral Index

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