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Ovid: Ibis

Gareth Williams

3.4/5 ( ratings)

This reissue of Robinson Ellis’s classic 1881 edition of Ovid’s rarely studied Ibis includes a new introduction by Gareth Williams that places the edition in the context of earlier and later developments in classical scholarship. Modeled on a poem of the same name by the Hellenistic author Callimachus, Ibis stands out as a contrived explosion of vitriol against an unnamed enemy, who is characterized in terms of the distinctive Egyptian bird. Ellis’s edition of this notoriously opaque poem made a significant contribution to the understanding of Ovid; for today’s readers it also illuminates a particular style of scholarship prevalent in the nineteenth-century study of Latin.

Language: English

Pages: 290

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Liverpool University Press

Release: February 15, 2009

ISBN: 1904675204

ISBN 13: 9781904675204

Ovid: Ibis

Gareth Williams

3.4/5 ( ratings)

This reissue of Robinson Ellis’s classic 1881 edition of Ovid’s rarely studied Ibis includes a new introduction by Gareth Williams that places the edition in the context of earlier and later developments in classical scholarship. Modeled on a poem of the same name by the Hellenistic author Callimachus, Ibis stands out as a contrived explosion of vitriol against an unnamed enemy, who is characterized in terms of the distinctive Egyptian bird. Ellis’s edition of this notoriously opaque poem made a significant contribution to the understanding of Ovid; for today’s readers it also illuminates a particular style of scholarship prevalent in the nineteenth-century study of Latin.

Language: English

Pages: 290

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Liverpool University Press

Release: February 15, 2009

ISBN: 1904675204

ISBN 13: 9781904675204

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