Hello textkitens,
We are preparing to try some Ovid in our latin-reading group in college the coming semester. And we are looking for good commentaries now. As far as I know, there are three worthy commentaris that are written in English: Selections from Ovid with notes and vocabulary from Focus Classical Library, the Selections From Ovid by Allen and Greenough which is available here, and the Ovid’s METAMORPHOSES1-5, 6-10 by W. Anderson, of which the latter is a more andvanced one, while the formers more suitable for the intermediate level.
My question is, with how great virtue is the commentary of Allen and Greenough compared with that of C. Dunmore or any other by the more recent authors. If we should utilise only the former along with that of Anderson, are we going to miss something worthy and essential? And will this work of the scholarship of the 19th century still be able to satisfy a serious taste as that of ours?
Thank you for your comments.
THE METAMORPHOSES OF PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO, an 1860 textbook with notes, illustrations, and a pertinent Latin to English dictionary
Thank you, I was thinking that my thread had been passed over.
But how can I download the book? And the pdf version of it from the link
above seems not to have been clearly digitalized. Or will it be friendly
enough for reading when printed?
Apparently, Univ. of Georgia has not done a good job DjVuing this book. The book itself, however, seemed very promising.
Yes, you can DOWNLOAD the book. It appears that this website used “auto-hide” function for DeVu options. Once your cursor is anywhere in the book image area, the DjVu tool bar will show on the top and the leftmost icon with a diskette logo is the “save” function that should allow one to save the entire book on a hard drive. Choose “Bundled” as the default save option so that the entire book is saved into just one file. You can then view the book offline and ZOOM the book to any size of your preference.
Alternatively, you can visit http://www.century-dictionary.com/ and see a much better example of DjVu document. In this case, the DjVu toolbar stays permanently on the top. If your Internet service is fast enough, yes, you can save the entire Century Dictionary in DjVu format in about 12 separate files. For more background on the Century Dictionary and Cycylopedia, please visit:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Century_Dictionary
If you wish, you can even download the entire large Lewis and Short Latin Dictionary in DjVu format from this website for your offline use: http://meta.montclair.edu/latintexts/dictionary/harpers/INDEX.djvu . Again, Internet connection speed is the key for the entire file is over 130M. The same file in PDF format, however, would be 3 to 5 times bigger, making such a download very impractical given today’s technology hurdle. Hence lies the main attraction of the DjVu format.
Just found out some additional books available for free downloads:
http://books.google.com/books?q=ovid
esp.
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Ovid, selected works by Frank Miller, 1900
http://books.google.com/books?id=Iy2cerR__9sC&pg=PA1&dq=ovid -
Selections from Ovid by William Ramsay, 1877
http://books.google.com/books?id=qbcBAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA2&dq=ovid#PPR3,M1 -
Selections from Ovid, Allen and Greenough, 1904
http://books.google.com/books?id=OOAAAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA1&dq=ovid#PPR1,M1 -
Metamorphoses of Ovid by Henry Riley , 1899
http://books.google.com/books?id=W4YXAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA5&dq=ovid#PPA3,M1
These are older books, but still quite valuable, esp. for the price and for comparison purposes!
Lastly, good luck with your OVID!
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