Oxford University Press

A detailed philological and interpretative reading of Ovid's most neglected poem, the Remedia Amoris. In her immersive, creatively interpretative guide to the poem, Victoria Rimell's commentary resets critical perspectives by reading the Remedia as distinctive and original, and as a pivotal text within Ovid's oeuvre.

A detailed commentary on Tristia 2, Ovid's verse letter addressed from exile to the emperor Augustus. Jennifer Ingleheart provides an indispensable guide to all aspects of the poem - textual, literary, historical, and political - while her Introduction explores, among other topics, its ironical and subversive aspects.

The Fasti is one of Ovid's most complex, inventive, and remarkable works. This commentary on Book 2 - the first detailed commentary in English - guides the reader towards a fuller appreciation of the poem, through detailed analysis of its religious, historical, political, and literary background.

Ovid's Fasti, Book 6 is the last of his calendar poems. Joy Littlewood analyses Ovid's account of the festivals of June, and explores the subtle interrelationships of history, literature, religion, and politics in the Augustan age.

Shipley presents the first modern commentary on Plutarch's Life of Agesilaos (c.444-360 BC) together with the full Greek text and a bibliography. Plutarch's biographies have long been valued for their literary, philosophic, and historiographic content, and the Life of Agesilaos, king of Sparta for forty years after the Peloponnesian war, has special interest as an introduction to Greek history, society, and culture in the fourth century, a critical period that has received little attention compared with the fifth century in Athens.

An edition of the most wide-ranging and entertaining of the books of the Latin love poet Propertius. A lucid and informative introduction sets the scene, and the notes, as well as offering a detailed and stimulating commentary, give a substantial amount of linguistic help to ensure that the poems are approachable.

An edition of the most wide-ranging and entertaining of the books of the Latin love poet Propertius. A lucid and informative introduction sets the scene, and the notes, as well as offering a detailed and stimulating commentary, give a substantial amount of linguistic help to ensure that the poems are approachable.

The final book of the third century Greek epic Posthomerica tells the story of the Trojan War from Helen's return to Menelaus and the sacrifice of Polyxena to the homeward journey of the victorious Greeks. This detailed commentary offers a literary analysis of the poem and examines its engagement with the earlier epic tradition.

This volume offers an incisive commentary on Silius Italicus' Punica 10, focusing on the military narrative of his depiction of the decisive Battle of Cannae in 216 BC. It is supported by the complete Latin text and English translation, full apparatus criticus, battle plans, and an extended introduction.