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    Contents

    Preface

    ix

    Abbreviations

    x

    1.

    The Life of Ovid

    1

    2.

    The Amores

    3

    3.

    The Manuscript Tradition of Ovid’s Amores

    by Bart Huelsenbeck, with the assistance of Dan Plekhov

    7

    4.

    Select Bibliography

    11

    5.

    Scansion

    13

    Prosody

    13

    Elision

    14

    The elegiac couplet

    15

    Reading aloud

    16

    6.

    Epigram: preface from the author

    19

    Notes on the Epigram

    19

    7.

    Amores 1.1: Ovid finds his muse

    21

    Suggested reading

    23

    Amores 1.1

    24

    Notes

    25

    8.

    Amores 1.2: Conquered by Cupid

    31

    Suggested reading

    34

    Amores 1.2

    35

    Notes

    37

    9.

    Amores 1.3: Just give me a chance

    43

    Suggested reading

    44

    Amores 1.3

    45

    Notes

    46

    10.

    Amores 1.4: Secret signs

    49

    Appendix: the vir

    52

    Suggested reading

    53

    Amores 1.4

    54

    Notes

    56

    11.

    Amores 1.5: The siesta

    63

    Suggested reading

    65

    Amores 1.5

    66

    Notes

    67

    12.

    Amores 1.6: On the doorstep

    71

    Suggested reading

    74

    Amores 1.6

    75

    Notes

    78

    13.

    Amores 1.7: Violence and love

    85

    Suggested reading

    87

    Amores 1.7

    88

    Notes

    90

    14.

    Amores 1.8: The bad influence

    99

    Suggested reading

    103

    Amores 1.8

    104

    Notes

    108

    15.

    Amores 1.9: Love and war

    121

    Suggested reading

    123

    Amores 1.9

    124

    Notes

    126

    16.

    Amores 1.10: Love for sale

    131

    Suggested reading

    134

    Amores 1.10

    135

    Notes

    137

    17.

    Amores 1.11: Sending a message

    145

    Suggested reading

    147

    Amores 1.11

    148

    Notes

    149

    18.

    Amores 1.12: Shooting messengers

    153

    Amores 1.12

    155

    Notes

    156

    19.

    Amores 1.13: Oh how I hate to get up in the morning

    159

    Suggested reading

    160

    Amores 1.13

    161

    Notes

    163

    20.

    Amores 1.14: Bad hair

    171

    Suggested reading

    172

    Amores 1.14

    173

    Notes

    175

    21.

    Amores 1.15: Poetic immortality

    183

    Suggested reading

    185

    Amores 1.15

    186

    Notes

    187

    Full vocabulary for Ovid’s Amores, Book 1

    193


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