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Book Three of the Corpus Tibullianum - Introduction, Text, Translation and Commentary (Hardcover, Unabridged edition)
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Book Three of the Corpus Tibullianum - Introduction, Text, Translation and Commentary (Hardcover, Unabridged edition)
Series: Pierides
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This book presents the first commentary on the whole of [Tibullus]
3 in English. It consists of a text, translation, introduction and
commentary. The text rests on the author's autopsy of the most
important manuscripts of [Tibullus]. The prose translation is as
literal as possible, in order to bring out clearly the meaning of
the Latin. The detailed line-by-line commentary serves to clarify
the language and literary associations of the poems and to back up
the theory that the whole work was composed by a single unitary
author. It argues that what were previously thought of as separate
sections of the book, composed by different authors at different
times, were in fact the product of a single anonymous poet
impersonating, or adopting the mask of, different characters in
each section: Lygdamus (poems 1-6), a young Tibullus (7), a
commentator on Sulpicia's affair with Cerinthus (8-12), Sulpicia
(13-18) and Tibullus (19-20). The close connections and
associations between these different sections and their use of the
same Augustan intertexts are shown to favour a unitary
interpretation of the work. The main literary inspiration for the
work, this volume argues, comes from the elegists of the Augustan
period, but its date of composition could have been late in the
first century AD, linking it with the other pseudepigraphical
writings of this century such as the Virgilian and Ovidian
Appendices.
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