Hopefully this helps you better understand and appreciate the epicurian philosophy of. The notes focus on the needs of students approaching latin elegy for the first time, but they will also prove useful to the more experienced student of latin or to scholars in. The best and most accessible commentaries in english on tibullus books 1 and 2 are by maltby. Murgatroyd are still in print, to say nothing of the wide availability and longlasting influence of the edition with commentary by k. This uncertainty can be explained simply by realizing that love is both, and cannot always be defined as exclusively positive or negative. Delia and nemesis the elegies of albius tibullus provides an introduction to the firstcentury latin poet. Guy lees acclaimed verse translation, rhythmically subtle and lively in verbal texture, can be read with delight on its own and enhances our enjoyment and appreciation of tibullus s latin. The commentary presented here is his poetry appealed to his countrymen in his own time, as it still does to students today, and this textbook is designed to explain and enhance that appeal. In the first 12 lines he deplores that weapons have ever been invented, but is also aware that not weapons are the cause of war, but human greed. The latin library the classics page the classics page.
Page 382 oer many a frozen, many a fiery alp, rocks, caves, lakes, fens, bogs, dens, and shades of death, a universe of death. American book company, 19, also by kirby flower smith page images at hathitrust tibullus. Guy lees acclaimed verse translation, rhythmically subtle and lively in verbal texture, can be read with delight on its own and enhances our enjoyment and appreciation of tibulluss latin. Tibullus in first place chapter 4 the cambridge companion to. I have little to add to his arguments,10 i shall merely point out that this transposition is also recommended by the repetitions of lustrare in 25 and of pauper in 1937. The commentary presented here is limited to the sixteen poems which comprise the first two books of the corpus tibullianum, that is, to poems authentically by tibullus. Tibullus i with introduction and copious commentary, pietermaritzburg 1980. Not nearly as good as propertius though far easier, which was nice. The chronology of book i as a whole is discussed, and an attempt is made to establish the relative dates of the first books of tibullus and propertius. The introduction considers tibullus poems in the context of classical elegy and in particular the elegies of his contemporaries, ovid and propertius, and discusses the influence of his patron.
A bit too much focus on critical ideas and too little syntaxtranslation help but at least hes not a whackjob, like richardson the propertius editor. It takes full account of uptodate scholarship on this learned, elegant and, until recently, much underestimated poet. Let other men gather bright gold to themselves and own many acres of wellploughed soil, let endless worry trouble them, with enemies nearby, and the peals of the wartrumpets driving away sleep. Taking into account every significant advance in scholarship since then on tibullus and elegy in general, it provides an authoritative latin text, a detailed introduction, and a comprehensive commentary discussing all aspects of linguistic and literary.
The commentary provides grammatical and historical information along with detailed explanations to aid in understanding and better appreciating the poets unique style. The book introduces tibullus and discusses his poetic sensibility and technique. In the first 12 lines he deplores that weapons have ever been invented, but is also aware that not. Of the commentaries heynes and huschkes are still of value. Juster and robert maltby 2012 oxford classical texts. We move through the poem in a linear fashion, selecting stanzas, then discussing their content. Browse the amazon editors picks for the best books of 2019, featuring our favorite reads in. There are only a few references to him by later writers and a short life of doubtful authority. This paper provides a running commentary on the poems normally attributed to sulpicia in tibullus iii, focusing on bookstructure and gender as well as elegiac conventions. Sunt qui propertium malint in my opinion tibullus is a very elegant and concise author. Messalla, like gaius maecenas, was at the centre of a literary circle in albius tibullus c. Nemesis i the country festival the ambarvalia whoever is here, attend. Roman poets and literary critics widely praised tibullus poetry. Sulpicias poems have come down to us as part of the corpus tibullianum, the collected works of tibullus and his friends.
Murgatroyds judicious and wellresearched commentaries on book 1 pieter. This is the ocrendorsed publication from bloomsbury for the latin as and alevel group 3 prescription of ovids amores 1. It takes into account every significant advance in scholarship since then on. Other editions containing works of tibullus albius tibullus oxford worlds classics. This paper provides a running commentary on the poems normally attributed to sulpicia in tibullus iii, focusing on book structure and gender as well as elegiac conventions. The appearance of a new commentary on the first book oftibullus. I, the first to enter, a priest of the pure fountain, to. Hopefully this helps you better understand and appreciate the epicurian philosophy of tibullus and his beautiful poetic style. This is the first full and detailed commentary on the second book of tibullus elegies since k. Text, introduction and commentary by robert maltby 2002, hardcover at the best online prices at. The ancients held tibullus in high regard and valued him above all for his smooth style. Yet it may fairly be asked if we need another commentary on tibullus, when annotated editions of the first and second books of the corpus by m. Ghosts of callimachus, and shrines of coan philetas, i pray you let me walk in your grove.
In the introduction an evaluation of the sources for a biography oi tibullus is followed by a concise account of his life and circumstances, and of the main themes and characters of book i. Come, bacchus, let the sweet grapes hang from your horns, and ceres, wreathe your brow with ears of corn. Putnam 1979, paperback at the best online prices at ebay. I, the first to enter, a priest of the pure fountain, to celebrate italian mysteries to the rhythms of greece. Of the three major elegiststibullus, propertius, and ovidtibullus is today. This selection for school use of six hundred lines from the works of catullus, virgil, horace, tibullus and ovid is accompanied by an introduction which includes short biographies of each of the poets, and a section on metre. Special features introduction to tibulluss poetry and the selected elegies, the poets life, and the elegiac meter. Let the earth rest, on this sacred day, the farmer too. In augustan rome, under the patronage of marcus valerius messalla corvinus, tibullus wrote two books of elegies, delia c. Michael c j putnam the work of the latin elegiac poet tibullus c. Robert maltby has provided for the third edition an extensive new commentary, illuminating many aspects of tibullus art and literary background. When tibullus 5519 bc was called to serve as a knight in the roman army, he expressed his abhorrence of war in this poem.
Who are the many whose opinion rated tibullus in first place. Tibullus, a commentary with latin text, norman 1973. Your subscription doesnt include the subject of this book. Tibullus, elegies with english translation, cambridge 1975. The third book divided by the renaissance scholars into two, which may be called the messalla collection, and, consisting of pieces by different hands, was added at some later time on it, and on the name of the poet, generally said to be albius tibullus, see postgate, selections from tibullus ed. Tibullus book 3 and sulpicia 1 20045 oxford scholarship. Tibullus was ranked among the four great roman elegists with gallus, sextus propertius, and ovid and was eulogized by ovid in amores c.