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Ovid Unseens - Practice Passages for Latin Verse Translation and Comprehension (Paperback, New)
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Ovid Unseens - Practice Passages for Latin Verse Translation and Comprehension (Paperback, New)
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Loot Price R565
Discovery Miles 5 650
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Ovid Unseens provides a bank of 80 practice passages of Latin
verse, half elegiac and half hexameter. Taken from across Ovid's
works, including the Metamorphoses, Fasti, Heroides, Amores and
Tristia, the passages help build students' knowledge and confidence
in a notoriously difficult element of Latin language learning.
Every passage begins with an introduction, outlining the basic
story and theme of the passage, followed by a 'lead-in' sentence,
paraphrasing the few lines before the passage begins. The first set
of passages are translation exercises of 12-16 lines, each
accompanied by a Discendum box which highlights a key feature of
poetic Latin, equipping students further with the skills to tackle
ever more difficult verse passages at first sight. These are
followed by longer passages with scansion exercises and questions
on comprehension and stylistic analysis, replicating unseen verse
exam questions in full. The comprehensive introduction provides an
overview of Ovid's life and work, an account of some of the
stylistic features of his poetry, and practical help in the form of
tips on how to approach the more challenging lines of Latin verse
and produce a fluent translation. A step-by-step guide to scansion,
with practice exercises and answers, covers the essential
principles for scanning lines of Latin verse, from the basics of
understanding syllables, feet and types of metres, to coping with
elision and caesurae. A guideline verse vocabulary list is provided
which covers words particularly common in Ovid's works. Broken down
into small 'checklists', each corresponding to a group of four
passages, the vocabulary is learnt cumulatively and as it is
encountered.
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