A Student's Seneca: Ten Letters and Selections from De Providentia and De Vita Beata - Softcover

M. D. Usher (editor) & Seneca (author)

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0806137444 ISBN 13: 9780806137445

Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press, 2006

Synopsis

Ideally suited to intermediate to advanced college-level students, The Student’s Ovid offers twenty-one selections from the Metamorphoses, with notes to aid translation and interpretation. The introduction includes an essay on Ovid’s life and works, an outline of the structure of the Metamorphoses, and tips on Latin poetic forms and usage.Accompanying each Latin passage is an introduction that provides background on the myths and their literary history, both in Ovid and in other classical authors. The detailed notes on each selection are designed to help students read and understand the Latin for themselves.Other special features of this book include:· a glossary of mythological characters· lists of stories grouped by theme to help teachers design courses to suit their students’ interests· discussions of the basic concepts of classical meter, Latin pronunciation, and accentuation· reference charts on the declension of Greek nouns to aid the reading of proper names· a select bibliography of translations and secondary studies

About this title

About the Author

M. D. Usher is Associate Professor of Classics at the University of Vermont. The author of academic books in the field of Classics, he has also written a children's picture book about Socrates and an opera libretto based on the poetry of Virgil.

Edition details

• Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
• Publication date: 2006
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0806137444
• ISBN 13: 9780806137445
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 192