Tendance Tibullus : Elegies II, couverture rigide de Murgatroyd, Paul (EDT), comme neuf doccasion, Fr...

Product Name: Tendance Tibullus : Elegies II, couverture rigide de Murgatroyd, Paul (EDT), comme neuf doccasion, Fr...
ISBN：9780198149613
Tibullus : Elegies II, Hardcover by Murgatroyd, Paul (EDT), ISBN 0198149611, ISBN-13 9780198149613, Like New Used, Free P&P in the UK

This is the first full and detailed commentary on the second book of Tibullus elegies since K. F. Smiths edition of 1913. It takes into account every significant advance in scholarship since then both on Tibullus and elegy in general. Th tendance provides an authoritative Latin text, based on the definitive Oxford Classical Text; an introduction covering such topics as the chronology of Book II, its completeness and construction, and the main characters of the poems; and a comprehensive commentary discussing all aspects of linguistic and literary interest in the poems: the problems of reference and interpretation, for instance, as well diction, style, themes, and metre. There are also introductory essays on each poem, discussing the background situation, genre, and main models. A critical appendix looks at all the textual points that substantially affect the understanding and appreciation of the elegies, a structural appendix explores the structure of the individual poems, and there are full indices..