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Ars amatoria
Originally published Manchester: Carcanet, 2003.
Gemeinsame Themen: Love-letters, Latin Didactic poetry, Love poetry, Poetry
Metamorphosen
Ovid’s sensuous and witty poem. In Metamophoses, Ovid brings together a dazzling array of mythological tales, ingeniously linked by the idea of transformation—often as a result of love or lust—where men and women find themselves magically changed into new and sometimes extraordinary beings. Beginning with the creation of the world and ending with the deification of Augustus, Ovid interweaves many…
Gemeinsame Themen: Love-letters, Love poetry, Poetry
Oden
This groundbreaking new translation of Horace's most widely read collection of poetry is rendered in modern, metrical English verse rather than the more common free verse found in many other translations. Jeffrey H. Kaimowitz adapts the Roman poet's rich and metrically varied poetry to English formal verse, reproducing the works in a way that maintains fidelity to the tone, timbre, and style of…
Gemeinsame Themen: Latin poetry, Latin language materials, Poetry
Werke des P. Vergilius Maro
4to. ff. [2] (blank), [1] (plates), [14] (prelims), pp. 246, 588, [192], ff. [2] (blank). Signatures: â4, ê4, î4, ô2, A-Z4, Aa-Gg4, Hh3, 2A-Z4, 2Aa-Zz4, Aaa-Zzz4, AAaa-DDdd4, EEee2, a-z4, aa4. Contemporary French calf. Gilt filet on boards’ edges. Gilded spine on 5 bars, red panel. Red edges. Signature “A.G.” on first blank. Manuscript note on second blank in French, stating this is a first…
Gemeinsame Themen: Latin Didactic poetry, Latin poetry, Poetry
Werke
Macbeth at the Savonlinna Opera Festival in St. Olaf's Castle, Savonlinna, Finland, in 2007]]
Gemeinsame Themen: Latin Didactic poetry, Latin poetry, Poetry
Die Georgiken des Vergil, übersetzt von Thomas Neville, ..
Virgil's classic poem extols the virtues of work, describes the care of crops, trees, animals, and bees, and stresses the importance of moral values.
Gemeinsame Themen: Latin Didactic poetry, Latin poetry, Poetry
Satiren
The Roman philosopher and dramatic critic Quintus Horatius Flaccus (65-3 B.C.), known in English as Horace, was also the most famous lyric poet of his age. Written in the troubled decade ending with the establishment of Augustus's regime, his Satires provide trenchant social commentary on men's perennial enslavement to money, power, fame, and sex. Not as frequently translated as his Odes, in…
Gemeinsame Themen: Latin poetry, Latin language materials, Poetry
Aeneis
"Virgil's masterpiece of Latin poetry, a lively, dramatic poem of daring and adventure, of love and loss, of devotion and death. "
Gemeinsame Themen: Latin Didactic poetry, History and criticism, Poetry
Oden
"The odes of Horace are the cornerstone of lyric poetry in the Western world. Their subtlety of tone and brilliance of technique have often proved elusive, especially when - as has usually been the case - a single translator ventures to maneuver through Horace's infinite variety.
Now for the first time, leading poets from America, England, and Ireland have collaborated to bring all 103 odes into…
Gemeinsame Themen: Latin poetry, History and criticism, Poetry