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Selections from Ovid

Selections from Ovid

With Notes and Vocabulary

Charles W. Dunmore

New York University

2003 • 1-58510-088-9 • paper • 206 pages • 6 x 9 • $19.95

A new Focus reprint of the classic reader on Ovid by Dr. Charles W. Dunmore, emeritus at New York University. Contains extensive selections for Ovid's primary works, all in Latin, with notes, commentary and glossary. Perfect for intermediate/advanced Latin classes. 

A complete new translation of Ovid's Metamorphoses by Phillip Ambrose in English, click here.

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 Description                                            

Dunmore's text contains selections from the Metamorphoses, the Fasti, Heroides, Tristia, Epistulae ex Ponto, Amores, and Ars Amatoria. Notes are below the text and a full vocabulary concludes the book. Macrons are not used.

 

 Author                                                   

Charles W. Dunmore was a member of the faculty of the department of classics of New York University for many years, serving as chairman of that department at the time of his retirement. He was a consulting editor on Latin and Greek etymology in the preparation of The World Book Encyclopedia, and is the author of Selections from Ovid (Focus Publishing), and co-author, with Rita M. Fleischer, of Dunmore and Fleischer's Medical Terminology, edition III (F.A. Davis Company).

 

 Table of Contents                                     

 

Introduction

BOOK I          Prologue (1-4)

                     Creation (5-88)

                     The Four Ages of Man (89-150)

                     The Flood (253-312)

                     Deucalion and Pyrrha (313-415)

                     Daphne and Apollo (452-567)

                     Jupiter and lo (568-746)

BOOK II         Phaethon (1-328)

BOOK III        Cadmus (1-137)

                     Actaeon (138-252)

                     Semele (253-315)

                     Tiresias (316-338)

                     Echo and Narcissus (339-510)

BOOK IV       Pyramus and Thisbe (55-168)

                     Mars and Venus (169-189)

BOOK V        Ceres and Proserpina (341-550)

                     The Sirens (551-576)

                     Arethusa (577-642)

BOOK VI        Arachne (70-145)

                     Niobe (146-312)

                     Latona (313-381)

BOOK VII       Jason and Medea (1-293)

BOOK VIII      Baucis and Philemon (620-737)

                     Erysichthon (738-878)

BOOK IX        Iphis and Ianthe (669-797)

BOOK X         Orpheus and Eurydice (1-63)

                     Pygmalion (243-297)

BOOK XI        The Death of Orpheus (1-84)

                     Midas (85-193)

                     Peleus and Thetis (221-265)

                     Aesacus and Hesperia (749-795)

BOOK XV       Epilogue (871-879)

FASTI

BOOK II         Arion (79-118)

                     Faunus (267-358)

                     Tarquin and Lucretia (685-852)

BOOK III        Anna (523-656)

BOOK IV       The Founding of Rome (807-862)

HEROIDES

                     II Phyllis to Demophoon (1-148)

                     X Ariadne to Theseus (1-150)

TRISTIA

                     I, 3    The Final Night in Rome (1-102)

                     III, 2   Death Would Be Better than Exile (1-30)

                     III, 10 A Description of Tomis (1-78)

                     IV, 10 Ovid's Autobiography (1-132)

EPISTULAE EX PONTO

                     I, 4     To His Wife (1-58)

                     I, 10   To Flaccus (1-44)

                     III, 3   To Maximus (1-108)

AMORES

                     I, 4     Advice to his Mistress (1-70)

                     II, 2    Advice to his Mistress's Slave (1-66)

                     II, 19  Advice to his Mistress's Husband (1-60)

ARS AMATORIA

                     BOOK I, 1-170

ABBREVIATIONS

VOCABULARY

 


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