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Page 1677 of 1845

  • Preface

  • Peter Jones
  • Book:
    Reading Ovid
    Published online:
    28 May 2018
    Print publication:
    08 March 2007, pp ix-ix

  • Summary

    This selection of stories from Ovid's Metamorphōsēs is designed for those who have completed a beginners' course in Latin. Its purpose is restricted and unsophisticated: to help such users, who will have read little or no Ovid, to enjoy the story-telling, character-drawing and language of one of the world's most delightful and influential poets. Assistance given with vocabulary and grammar is based on two widely used beginners' courses, Reading Latin and Wheelock's Latin (for details, see Vocabulary, grammar and notes below).

    My general principle is to supply help on a need-to-know basis for the story in hand. The Vocabulary, grammar and notes and Learning vocabularies accompanying the text speak for themselves. The Comment at the end of each passage is an occasionally embellished paraphrase whose main purpose is to point up important detail and show how the logic of each story unfolds. I make no apology for this. With the minimal amount of time today's students have for learning the language, the demands of translation alone can be so heavy that it is all too easy to miss the wood for the trees and hamper the whole purpose of the exercise – pleasure, one of the most useful things in the world. The Study sections offer ways of thinking further about the passage.

    My debt to W. S. Anderson's excellent Ovid's Metamorphoses Books 1–5 (Norman and London: University of Oklahoma Press, 1997) and Ovid's Metamorphoses Books 6–10 (Norman and London: University of Oklahoma Press, 1972) will be obvious.

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