Format: Hardback
Pages: 421
ISBN: 9780905205717
Pub Date: December 1989
Imprint: Francis Cairns Publications
Illustrations: xxvi + 421 pages.
Price:
£75.00
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Description:
Even in its incomplete form (the final volume is still in preparation), the Commentary on the Amores of Ovid has become a scholarly standard. The introductions to each elegy are succinct, readable and original, and take careful account of relevant modern discussions. The commentary is full of meticulous detail. McKeown's Ovid retains his lightness of touch, however, and poet and commentator share an interest in the wit arising from situation and word-play.