Tibullus was one of the leading poets of Augustan Rome. Professor Cairns examines in detail aspects of Tibullus' poetic craftsmanship - his learning, his interest in the meanings of words, his use of suspense and deception, his control of the structures of his elegies - and demonstrates the original qualities of Tibullus' verse. This examination ...
This is the first full and detailed commentary on the second book of Tibullus' elegies since K.F. Smith's edition of 1913. It takes into account every significant advance in scholarship since then on Tibullus, elegy in general. The book provides an authoritative Latin text, based on the definitive Oxford Classical Text, an Introduction covering ...
This study analyzes the short poetic cycle of Lygdamus, one of the authors included in Book III of the "Corpus Tibullianum". It includes a critical edition (taking into account early editions and conjectures) and a commentary on each poem that pays particular attention to elegiac terms and motifs.
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