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Ovid's Changing Worlds looks at the four most important English imitations of the Metamorphoses in the English Renaissance: the translations of Arthur Golding and George Sandys, Spenser's Faerie Queene, and Michael Drayton's Poly-Olbion. It sheds new light on dealings with the classics in the period and shows that the emergence of English literature was a complex and fascinating process. ... Read more

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This book is intended be a thought-provoking discussion of real issues in the healthcare debate as seen through the eyes of suffering consumers."He who feels it, knows it"It is not intended as a substitute for any study generated by specialists in the fields of finance, economics, government, or healthcare related law.It simply documents and discusses challenges in health-related experiences in everyday life of ordinary people, not law makers.It is a "he, who feels it, knows it" life record of experiences of the under-privileged in America.This straightforward read incorporates the health systems of different countries with the purpose of provoking the reader to analyze and compare the healthcare system in the United States of America with that of other countries, some of which are industrialized nations, while others are developing nations; and to challenge the government representatives on the issues.Peter Schoppa of Germany (Chapter 10) states, "Health insurance and nursing insurance are ruled by the principle of legal liability to insure.Immaterial are age, sex, and personal status, state of health or citizenship of the insured." The U.S. is faced with a health crisis that impacts its past and current economical situation.U.S. Census Bureau August 2008 report that: there were 35.920 million uninsured U.S. citizens and 9.737 million uninsured foreign nationals residing within the United States, that is "nearly 46 million" uninsured people in the United States.What is often discussed in the media is rather exciting, loquacious, and thrilling. These discussions and conclusions relate to issues occurring on another planet - NOT this one down here!I believe that the treatment of the healthcare issues as presented in this book will help law makers and the media, make informed decisions about universal healthcare on this planet - Earth! ... Read more

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This book provides a unique and accessible introduction to the complete works of Ovid. Using a thematic approach, Volk lays out what we know about Ovid's life, presents the author's works within their poetic genres, and discusses central Ovidian themes.

• The first general introduction to Ovid written in English in over 20 years, offering the very latest Ovidian scholarship
• Discusses the complete works of Ovid
• Accessible writing and a thematic approach make this text ideal for a broad audience
• A current revival in Ovid makes this timely edition highly valuable

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This reader contains lines of Latin selections from Ovid poems, designed for students moving from elementary or intermediate Latin into reading the authentic Latin of Ovid. Introductory materials include an overview of the life and work of Ovid, bibliography, and description of Ovidian meters.

Latin selections are accompanied by pre-reading materials, grammatical exercises, vocabulary notes, notes to assist reading comprehension, and other reading aids. Appendices on grammar and figures of speech, and a pull-out vocabulary of words appearing frequently in Ovid round out the book's innovative features.

Special Features

* Pre-reading materials help students understand underlying cultural and literary concepts
* Short explanations of grammatical and syntactical usage, with exercises
* First version of the Latin text with transitional aids: implied words in parentheses, difficult noun-adjective pairings in different fonts, words re-ordered to facilitate comprehension
* Complete vocabulary and grammatical notes on facing pages
* Post-reading materials encourage appreciation of Ovid's style and reflection on what has been read
* Pull-out vocabulary of Latin words not annotated
* Second version of Latin text is without transitional aids, but with notes

Also available:

Catullus : a Legamus Transitional Reader - ISBN 086516634X
Horace: A Legamus Transitional Reader - ISBN 0865166765

For over 30 years Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers has produced the highest quality Latin and ancient Greek books. From Dr. Seuss books in Latin to Plato's Apology, Bolchazy-Carducci's titles help readers learn about ancient Rome and Greece; the Latin and ancient Greek languages are alive and well with titles like Cicero's De Amicitia and Kaegi's Greek Grammar. We also feature a line of contemporary eastern European and WWII books.

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Latin Grammar & Pronunciation
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Texts Supporting Wheelock's Latin
Classical author workbooks: Vergil, Ovid, Horace, Catullus, Cicero
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There's a gap between reading authentic Latin texts and a class that teaches Latin as a spoken language
There's a gap between reading authentic Latin texts and a class that teaches Latin as a spoken language. "Ovid: A Legamus Transitional Reader" seeks to bridge that gap with material to help students understand the grammar and language used in these ancient texts, complete with a vocabulary practice and assistance. The ideal tool for any Latin student looking to practice their skills with the ancient language, "Ovid: A Legamus Transitional Reader" is highly recommended for community library collections dedicated to assisting in learning foreign languages. ... Read more

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"In her extended introduction, Nagle offers illuminating information and commentary... This verse translation, internally glossed for clarification, is as accurate as modern English will allow.... Highly recommended." -- Choice

"An excellent rendition in English of Ovid's poetic calendar of the Roman religious year, with an original introduction and useful notes as well as a glossary... The translation is elegant and geared to the modern reader." -- The Journal of Indo-European Studies

This elegant translation brings Ovid's poetic calendar of the Roman religious year to a new generation of students and scholars. A valuable source of information about the Roman calendar, it complements Ovid's masterwork, the Metamorphoses.

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The shape–shifting poetry of Ovid’s Metamorphoses has fascinated writers and artists from Shakespeare to Ted Hughes, Rembrandt to Picasso. Their eternal freshness is fused with an ancient charm, driven by the haunting notion that a person’s true nature is revealed when their physical shape is changed. For this dazzling new collection, Philip Terry asked a number of writers simply to take a story from Ovid as their starting point and set their own invention free. The results are startling, scary, sexy, and endlessly illuminating, often changing the shape of the modern short story itself. Here is a box of treasures that will delight, astonish, and entertain, with stories by, among others, Joyce Carol Oates, Margaret Atwood, and A.S. Byatt. ... Read more

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A volume of verse translations of Ovid, from Chaucer to Seamus Heaney, for the "Poets in Translation" series. The text contains complete elegies from the "Amores", "Heriodes" and "Poems of Exile", as well as many self-contained episodes from the longer works. ... Read more

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In the twenty-one poems of the Heroides, Ovid gave voice to the heroines and heroes of epic and myth. These deeply moving literary epistles reveal the happiness and torment of love, as the writers tell of their pain at separation, forgiveness of infidelity or anger at betrayal. The faithful Penelope wonders at the suspiciously long absence of Ulysses, while Dido bitterly reproaches Aeneas for too eagerly leaving her bed to follow his destiny, and Sappho – the only historical figure portrayed here – describes her passion for the cruelly rejecting Phaon. In the poetic letters between Paris and Helen the lovers seem oblivious to the tragedy prophesied for them, while in another exchange the youthful Leander asserts his foolhardy eagerness to risk his life to be with his beloved Hero. ... Read more

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Nobleman by birth, loutish party boy by temperment, Marcus Corvinus is a citizen of ancient Rome, but he would be as much at home in a champagne-stained tux as he is in a toga.He'd like to shed that toga for the beautiful Lady Perilla, but in return for her favor she demands that Corvinus help retrieve her stepfather's ashes for burial in Rome. The task proves more difficult than expected: Perilla's stepfather was the famous poet Ovid, exiled years earlier and still loathsome to the Emperor Tiberius. But Corvinus' arrogance - and letch for Perilla - keep him on course, even when the Emperor's thugs try a little up-close-and-personal persuasion.Author David Wishart, a classical scholar, knows a great deal about both ancient Rome and gilded youth. You may not approve of Corvinus, but you'll have a tough time resisting his charm. ... Read more

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Blurbage!
Comic, bawdy and extremely engrossing, OVID is an intriguing tale of
mystery and suspense.

'So tell me.' I was getting pretty angry myself now. I'd had a long hard day and I wasn't taking this crap from anyone. 'You just tell me, Dad. Tell me why the emperor hates a dead poet so much he won't allow his ashes back to Rome. Tell me why when I ask questions about a scandal so old that you can't even smell it any more everyone keeps his mouth shut closer than a Vestal's kneecaps. Tell me why I nearly end up in the Tiber with my throat cut...'

Such are the frustrated words of Marcus Corvinus, a young man who likes to have a good time and enjoys wine, women and laughter far more than a hard day's work. He also happens to be the grandson of the Roman poet Ovid's former patron.

So when Ovid's stepdaughter, the luscious Rufia Perilla, begs him to recover the poet's ashes and bring them back to Rome, how can Marcus refuse? Not that the task turns out to be easy: official permission is abruptly denied. And as Marcus starts asking questions in the higher echelons of Roman society he finds himself drawn deeper and deeper into a web of secrecy, treachery and deceit.

Augustus the Idiot
There are only a few sources for the Julio-Claudians. The principal ones are Suetonius and Tacitus. Robert Graves translated the most popular modern version of The Twelve Caesars by Suetonius. He wrote his famous novel 'I Claudius' based on that translation. He however goes further and 'explains' the missing motives and connects the narrative. Basicaly he tells us Livia killed all of her husband Augustus' heirs to make room for her son Tiberius.

Certainly the evil of Livia is an effective plot device. I Claudius became the basis for a terrific TV series. Everyone loves the story of the wicked Romans as Graves recounts it.

But is it credible?

Wishart buys into the Graves notions about Augustus and Livia.However I find the idea that Caesar Augustus never noticed that his wife was killing his progeny very hard to accept.

First of all Augustus was no dummy. He was arguably the most consequential political figure in world history. He did not gain or keep power on the battlefield but at court. He ruled a long time and overcame many enemies. Presumably he had his own information sources. Yet Graves and Wishart would have us believe that his wife deceived him for decades and he never noticed.

Secondly the average life span in Imperial Rome was 22. Everybody was dying all the time. There were no autopsies. When someone mysteriously died it could always be attributed to a political enemy. Sometimes an enemy did apply poison I'm sure - but who knew which of the deceased died of poison and which of bad hygene or bad luck?

For example it is well known that Claudius died of eating an Amanita Phaloides (or Verna) mushroom which was in a bowl of Amanita Caesare mushrooms. Today no one eats the tasty Caesare variety because its so easy to confuse them with the deadly Phalodides. Accidents still happen when the deadly Amanitas are confused with the common Agaricus Campestras that Boy Scout troops like to gather.

Was that Amanita put in his bowl by Agrippina? Or was it just a mistake? We can never really know but poisoning makes for a better story.

I find the Graves version of history to be unconvincing. I was a liitle disappointed to read that Wishart followed that line.

"Jupiter!"
Okay, in my first David Wishart book, The Lydian Baker (Marcus Corvinus Mystery), I was very nearly completely put off by the idea of an ancient Roman detective who talks like Philip Marlowe. I was entertained despite myself, and decided to give another book by him a try.

I *still* do not approve of the mixing of periods (Roman noir), but this first book in the series is actually much more successful and even than The Lydian Baker. The set up eases me into the improbably diction much more smoothly and the plot was, for me, much more compelling.

For those of you who are not familiar with the series, Marcus Corvinus is the disreputable son of a patrician Roman family who makes his living as an early private eye. Wishart was a classics scholar before he started writing, and has a good eye for the kinds of historic puzzles that make his bookish fans happy.

Recommended.

First Book in the Series
David Wishart was born in Arbroath, Scotland. He studied Classics - Latin and Greek - at Edinburgh University and after graduation taught for four years in a secondary school. He then retrained as a teacher of English as a Foreign Language and worked abroad for eleven years, in Kuwait, Greece and Saudi Arabia. He returned to Scotland in 1990 and now lives with his family in Carnoustie, mixing writing with teaching EFL and study skills at Dundee University.

This is the first in the series of novel by the author featuring Marcus Corvinus, an amateur sleuth and connoisseur of fine wines. The books take a similar theme to the Falco novels of Lindsey Davis, but Falco and Corvinus are from different periods of Roman history. The time period and class of Wishart's sleuth are different. Falco lives in Flavian Rome and has just worked his way into the Equestrian class, while Corvinus is a patrician in the age of Tiberius. However both Corvinus and Falco have a wife behind them, who it could be said, is the making of them.

The books are popular and for anyone who likes Lindsey Davis or Steven Saylor are a must. This one as the title suggest is about Ovid and the mystery behindwhat he actually did to get himself exiled from Rome.

Film Noir Detective in Ancient Rome
Corvinius is a wine guzzling noble, wise cracking and judgemental. Yet he falls for a lovely lady who makes one simple request, she wants a relatives body brought back to Rome for burial. Sounds easy until he tries to get permission and wades into deep political waters of murder, thuggery and mayhem. Luckily he swims well and is detects even better.
A wonderful series, all of the books are not available here in the US and I hope that is remedied soon. ... Read more

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In this volume, Professor Knox provides the first full-scale commentary in English in this century on a selection from Ovid's Heroides, a collection of letters in elegiac verse supposedly addressed by heroines of mythology to their absent lovers or husbands. This edition is intended to provide students of Latin literature with guidance in the interpretation of these poems. The Introduction also includes a general account of Ovid's career and the place of the Heroides in the development of Augustan poetry. ... Read more

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Great prof, better book
Of course if you don't read Latin you don't want to read this book, that is what it is for!The epistles are well selected and the commentary is right on...exactly what I would expect of Knox.

Great Textbook!
My Latin class is using this text this quarter, and we find it excellent. It includes a large introduction with explanations of the myths involved, and which tells about Ovid's life. The book also includes many, many notes that give suggested translations for difficult lines and explain ambiguous references. The text includes Heroides letters 1, 2, 5, 6, 7, 10, 11, and the "incerti auctoris epistula Sapphus ad Phaonem". Enjoy!

Caveat Lector! Translation: Reader Beware!
Readers should note that if you do not read Latin (and I don't), you will not be able to read the actual epistles in this book - only the introduction and the commentary.Since I will have to order another version of the Heroides to actually read the ancient text, I cannot yet comment on the English commentary included in this book! I am giving it a two for now.

A useful and intelligent commentary
This commentary is erudite and insightful, full of information that is useful to scholars of all levels.What a fantastic book! ... Read more

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This workbook contains the Latin text that is on the AP syllabus accompanied by exercises (grammar, translation, short answer analysis, scansion if appropriate, figures of speech, and essay questions) that will both help students to read and understand the literature as well as prepare for the AP examination. In addition, a teacher s manual will feature the entire student text along with the answers.

Also available:

A Vergil Workbook - 0865166145
A Cicero Workbook - ISBN 0865166439

For over 30 years Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers has produced the highest quality Latin and ancient Greek books. From Dr. Seuss books in Latin to Plato's Apology, Bolchazy-Carducci's titles help readers learn about ancient Rome and Greece; the Latin and ancient Greek languages are alive and well with titles like Cicero's De Amicitia and Kaegi's Greek Grammar. We also feature a line of contemporary eastern European and WWII books.

Some of the areas we publish in include:

Selections From The Aeneid
Latin Grammar & Pronunciation
Greek Grammar & Pronunciation
Texts Supporting Wheelock's Latin
Classical author workbooks: Vergil, Ovid, Horace, Catullus, Cicero
Vocabulary Cards For AP Selections: Vergil, Ovid, Catullus, Horace
Greek Mythology
Greek Lexicon
Slovak Culture And History ... Read more

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Excellent Ancillary Workbook for the Classroom
"An Ovid Workbook" is an excellent ancillary piece for the upper-level high school class studying Ovid.The material is written for the "Amores" and "Metamorphoses" selections included in the Advanced Placement curriculum, but may easily be used with the International Baccalaureate curriculum as well.The exercises are well-conceived and include vocabulary work as well as multiple-choice, short-answer, and grammar drills, all of which are very user-friendly and need little explanation on the part of the teacher.The exercises can be assigned as homework, or would be equally effective as in-class quizzes. ... Read more

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This is an electronic edition of the complete poems complemented by Ovid biography. This book features the table of contents linked to every chapter. The book was designed for optimal navigation on the Kindle, PDA, Smartphone, and other electronic readers. It is formatted to display on all electronic devices including the Kindle, Smartphones and other Mobile Devices with a small display.

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The Ars amatoria (Latin: 'Art of Love') is a poem in three books by the Roman poet Ovid. It claims to provide teaching in three areas of general preoccupation: how and where to find girls (and husbands) in Rome, how to seduce them, and how to prevent others from stealing them.

Remedia Amoris (Love's Remedy or The Cure for Love) is a 814 line poem in Latin by the Roman poet Ovid. In this poem, Ovid offers advices and strategies to avoid being hurt by love feelings , or to fall out of love, with a stoician overtone.

Medicamina Faciei Feminae ("Women's Facial Cosmetics"), also known as The Art of Beauty, 100 lines surviving. Published ca. 5 BC.

- Excerpted from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

Table of Contents

Ovid's Art of Love
Book I
Book II
Book III
Ovid's Remedy of Love
Ovid's Art of Beauty
The Court of Love, a Tale from Chaucer
History of Love, by Charles Hopkins
Admiration
Perseus and Andromeda
Desire
Pygmalion
Hippomenes and Atalanta
Jealousy
Cephalus and Procris
Despair
Orpheus and Eurydice
The Parting
The Parting of Achilles and Deidamia
Absence
Leander's Epistle to Hero
Narcissus and Echo
Salmacis and Hermaphroditus

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The Roman poet Ovid, author of the famous Metamorphoses, is widely considered one of the canonical poets of Latin antiquity. Vastly popular in Europe during the Renaissance and Early Modern periods, Ovid's writings influenced the literature, art, and culture in Spain's Golden Age.

The book begins with examinations of the translation and utilization of Ovid's texts from the Middle Ages to the Age of Cervantes. The work includes a section devoted to the influence of Ovid on Cervantes, arguing that Don Quixote is a deeply Ovidian text, drawing upon many classical myths and themes. The contributors then turn to specific myths in Ovid as they were absorbed and transformed by different writers, including that of Echo and Narcissus in Garcilaso de la Vega and Hermaphroditus in Covarrubias and Moya. The final section of the book centers on questions of poetic fame and self-fashioning. Ovid in the Age of Cervantes is an important and comprehensive re-evaluation of Ovid's impact on Renaissance and Early Modern Spain.

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Recent attacks on contemporary art have portrayed the erotic content of works by Robert Mapplethorpe and others as if it were a deviation from the Western artistic tradition. On the contrary, there is a rich tradition of eroticism in the arts beginning with the erotic verse of ancient Greek and Roman poets.

Games of Venus, the first comprehensive anthology in English of ancient Greek and Roman erotic verse, revives this tradition for the modern reader.

Games of Venus presents the whole spectrum of erotic poetry from Sappho to Ovid in translations which evoke the full range of styles and tones present in the original Greek and Latin.

Brief biographical sketches accompany the work of each poet as do notes referring to the myths, geography, historical events, personages, and sexual and social customs mentioned in the verse. ... Read more

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The first volume of this major commentary begins appropriately with Prolegomena, before offering a text of Ovid's Amores. The Prolegomena has eight chapters: Tenerorum Lusor Amorum; Doctrina; Recitation; Chronology; The Arrangement of the Poems; The Title; Metre; The Text. Succinct, clear and learned, these chapters alone form an excellent all-round introduction to Ovid as a love-poet, and touch on many aspects of more general relevance to Augustan and Hellenistic poetry. ... Read more

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InterestingReading
I read this book years ago and remembered how good it was.I loaned my copy out and never got it back.So, I usually can find older books at Amazon...

Jimmy the Weasel - the last Mafioso?
Ovid Demaris in conjunction with Jimmy Fratianno wrote this expose of life in the Mafia. This is no Joe Bonnano autobiography, this is closer to the real thing. Jimmy followed Valachi as a government witness and was tagged in the book as a liar. But, the workings of the Black Hand is very revealing in this title. I guess, this is as close as you can get to how it was....how, it is.

THE WEASEL
What an epic tale by Jimmy Fratiano!!! This book is fantastic!!!! It's long as hell, but never a dull moment. When I finished the book, I promptly reread it. The guy ties the Los Angeles family to Chicago, Chicago to Milwaukee, Detroit, Cleveland, and Tampa. Not to mention his sit-downs with Paul Castellano, Chin Gigante, Funzi Tieri, Joey Aiuppa, and Russ Buffalino. But what I found most interesting was his dealings with Johnny Roselli and Tony Spilotro, and his knowledge of the Hollywood and Las Vegas scene. It also introduces the relationship between the mob and the Mexican mafia.

This book is a mafia-phile's wet dream
I just received this book though amazon and am only a couple of chapters in.
After reading several other LCN books this one, already in the first few chapters, is the best.
Other reviews here have said, "it 's like watching a movie', and I thought it was just hyperbole. But
it is true. Demaris spent( or so he claims) dozens of hours talking to and interviewing J.F, and it shows in the writing. In most LCN books, the author injects their personality into the writing and it can get really lame and and 'tabloid'.
But here, it's all Jimmy. The stories he tells,(so far) are so unbelievably amazing; Hoffa/the teamsters etc.
This is history!
It is highly recommended that the reader FIRST watch the true crime miniseries called "CRIME INC." from 1985 produced by Thames. The first couple of episodes have some pretty amazing interviews with Jimmy. The guy is amazing because he's just one of those people who opens their mouth and you feel like you could sit and listen to them tell stories for hours or days. The series is hard to get , but if you have a sort of underground or un-mainstream video store in your city, they'll probably have it on DVD.
Anyway once you watch those interviews and read this book you'll notice that the tone of voice in the book and the way he talks in the video, matches soexactly, that it eerily feels like you actually know this guy. Any doubts about books authenticityquickly vanished for me.
Oh ya, and it's not one of those wimpy tabloid books that are 200 pages. This ones' a novel at over 400 pages.
By far in the top 5 LCN books ever, maybe the best. I would have rated it 5 but I''v just started it .
The only unusual thing is that it's so hard to find, and that very few editions have been printed.
I bought my copy for 1.61 on amazon and it took about 7 weeks to arrive.
I wonder why such a great book is so hard to get a hold of?

The Last Mafioso...
Back in 1987, I was lent a Paperback Edition of the book.I read it from cover to cover.It definitely pulls you into the life that Mr. Fratianno led.I bought a used hardcover in 2004 and still read through the book from time to time.I recommend it!Also, it should be made into a movie.Five stars! ... Read more

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A Companion to Ovid is a comprehensive overview of one of the most influential poets of classical antiquity.

• Features more than 30 newly commissioned chapters by noted scholars writing in their areas of specialization
• Illuminates various aspects of Ovid's work, such as production, genre, and style
• Presents interpretive essays on key poems and collections of poems
• Includes detailed discussions of Ovid's primary literary influences and his reception in English literature
• Provides a chronology of key literary and historical events during Ovid's lifetime