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Ovid: Ibis (Paperback, New): Robinson Ellis Ovid: Ibis (Paperback, New)
Robinson Ellis; Introduction by G.D. Williams
R1,029 R912 Discovery Miles 9 120 Save R117 (11%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

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.

Aetna (Paperback): Robinson Ellis Aetna (Paperback)
Robinson Ellis; Introduction by Katharina Volk
R1,006 R945 Discovery Miles 9 450 Save R61 (6%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days

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.

The Poems and Fragments of Catullus: Robinson Ellis The Poems and Fragments of Catullus
Robinson Ellis
R1,012 Discovery Miles 10 120 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Poems and Fragments of Catullus: Robinson Ellis The Poems and Fragments of Catullus
Robinson Ellis
R1,564 R1,476 Discovery Miles 14 760 Save R88 (6%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Aetna (Hardcover): Robinson Ellis Aetna (Hardcover)
Robinson Ellis
R1,042 Discovery Miles 10 420 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Aetna (Paperback): Robinson Ellis Aetna (Paperback)
Robinson Ellis
R731 Discovery Miles 7 310 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Fables of Phaedrus (Hardcover): Robinson Ellis The Fables of Phaedrus (Hardcover)
Robinson Ellis
R720 Discovery Miles 7 200 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Fables of Phaedrus (Paperback): Robinson Ellis The Fables of Phaedrus (Paperback)
Robinson Ellis
R364 Discovery Miles 3 640 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
A Commentary on Catullus (Hardcover): Robinson Ellis A Commentary on Catullus (Hardcover)
Robinson Ellis
R1,140 Discovery Miles 11 400 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
A Commentary on Catullus (Paperback): Robinson Ellis A Commentary on Catullus (Paperback)
Robinson Ellis
R808 Discovery Miles 8 080 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Fables of Avianus (Hardcover): Robinson Ellis The Fables of Avianus (Hardcover)
Robinson Ellis
R880 Discovery Miles 8 800 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Fables of Avianus (Paperback): Robinson Ellis The Fables of Avianus (Paperback)
Robinson Ellis
R537 Discovery Miles 5 370 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Where is My Daddy? - A Girl's Guide to Grieving an Absent Father (Paperback): Nathaniel Robinson Ellis Where is My Daddy? - A Girl's Guide to Grieving an Absent Father (Paperback)
Nathaniel Robinson Ellis; Illustrated by Tanya Mance; Nathalie Dorleans Ellis
R437 Discovery Miles 4 370 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Poems of Catullus (Paperback): Catullus The Poems of Catullus (Paperback)
Catullus; Translated by Robinson Ellis
R280 Discovery Miles 2 800 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The fables of Avianus (Paperback): Robinson Ellis The fables of Avianus (Paperback)
Robinson Ellis
R435 Discovery Miles 4 350 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
A commentary on Catullus (Paperback): Robinson Ellis A commentary on Catullus (Paperback)
Robinson Ellis
R658 Discovery Miles 6 580 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
On The Culex Awd Other Poems Of The Appendix Vergiliana [by R. Ellis] (Paperback): Robinson Ellis On The Culex Awd Other Poems Of The Appendix Vergiliana [by R. Ellis] (Paperback)
Robinson Ellis; Created by Publius Vergilius Maro
R428 Discovery Miles 4 280 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Fables of Avianus, Edited, With Prolegomena, Critical Apparatus, Commentary, Excursus and Index (Hardcover): Robinson Ellis The Fables of Avianus, Edited, With Prolegomena, Critical Apparatus, Commentary, Excursus and Index (Hardcover)
Robinson Ellis
R880 Discovery Miles 8 800 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Fables of Avianus (Paperback): Robinson Ellis, Avianus The Fables of Avianus (Paperback)
Robinson Ellis, Avianus
R740 Discovery Miles 7 400 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Poems and Fragments of Catullus (Paperback): Catullus The Poems and Fragments of Catullus (Paperback)
Catullus; Translated by Robinson Ellis
R280 Discovery Miles 2 800 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Poems and Fragments of Catullus (Paperback): Gaius Valerius Catullus, Robinson Ellis The Poems and Fragments of Catullus (Paperback)
Gaius Valerius Catullus, Robinson Ellis
R546 Discovery Miles 5 460 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Catullus in the Xivth Century (Hardcover): Robinson Ellis Catullus in the Xivth Century (Hardcover)
Robinson Ellis
R721 Discovery Miles 7 210 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
XII Facsimiles From Latin Mss. in the Bodleian Library (Hardcover): Robinson Ellis XII Facsimiles From Latin Mss. in the Bodleian Library (Hardcover)
Robinson Ellis
R794 Discovery Miles 7 940 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Elegiae in Maecenatem; a Lecture Delivered in the Hall of Corpus Christi College, Oxford, on Monday, June 10, 1907... The Elegiae in Maecenatem; a Lecture Delivered in the Hall of Corpus Christi College, Oxford, on Monday, June 10, 1907 (Hardcover)
Robinson Ellis
R718 Discovery Miles 7 180 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Professor Birt's Edition of the Vergilian Catalepton; (Hardcover): Robinson Ellis Professor Birt's Edition of the Vergilian Catalepton; (Hardcover)
Robinson Ellis
R716 Discovery Miles 7 160 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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