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Ovid: Ibis (Paperback, New)
Robinson Ellis; Introduction by G.D. Williams
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R1,029
R912
Discovery Miles 9 120
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Ovid's rarely studied Ibis is an elegiac companion-piece to the
Tristia and Ex Ponto written after his banishment to the Black Sea
in AD 8. Modelled on a poem of the same name by the Hellenistic
poet Callimachus, Ibis stands out as an artistically contrived
explosion of vitriol against an unnamed enemy who is characterised
in terms of the Egyptian bird with its unprepossessing habits.
Based in a tradition of curse-ritual, it is the most difficult of
Ovid's poems to penetrate. Robinson Ellis's edition remains an
indispensable - if typically eccentric - platform for the study of
the poem's obscurities. Indeed Ellis deserves the primary credit
for bringing Ibis back from obscurity into the light of day.This
reissue of Ellis's 1881 edition includes a new introduction by
Gareth Williams setting the edition in the context of earlier and
later developments in scholarship. Ellis's edition not only made a
significant contribution to research into the Ibis, it is an
important representative of a particular vein of scholarship
prevalent in nineteenth-century Latin study.
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Aetna (Paperback)
Robinson Ellis; Introduction by Katharina Volk
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R1,006
R945
Discovery Miles 9 450
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The pseudo-Virgilian Aetna poem has fascinated textual critics for
centuries on account of its badly corrupted state. But it is
fascinating for its content as well. It appears to date from the
first half of the first century AD sometime prior to 79, for it
describes Vesuvius as extinct. The highly original account of a
volcano with scientific, if eccentric, views of volcanic activity,
is enlivened by vivid imagery and digressions such as a section in
praise of physical science and the tale of two brothers who rescued
their parents from an eruption. A vigorous and enthusiastic poem,
it repays further study within the didactic tradition. Robinson
Ellis, according to The Times the 'greatest English Latinist' of
his age, worked on the poem for decades, and his 1901 edition,
which includes a translation and full commentary, constitutes a
significant contribution to the study of the poem. His work remains
of interest today, both to scholars working on the poem and to
historians of classical scholarship.In her new introduction to this
reissue of the complete Latin text and translation of the poem with
Ellis's commentary, Katharina Volk discusses Ellis's achievement in
the context of his career and as part of the history of critical
engagement with the Aetna. She also provides an overview of work on
the poem since Ellis's edition, and a bibliography.
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Aetna (Hardcover)
Robinson Ellis
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R1,042
Discovery Miles 10 420
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Aetna (Paperback)
Robinson Ellis
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R731
Discovery Miles 7 310
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