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OverviewOvid Unseens provides a bank of 80 practice passages of Latin verse, half elegiac and half hexameter. Taken from across Ovid’s works, including the Metamorphoses, Fasti, Heroides, Amores and Tristia, the passages help build students' knowledge and confidence in a notoriously difficult element of Latin language learning. Every passage begins with an introduction, outlining the basic story and theme of the passage, followed by a ‘lead-in’ sentence, paraphrasing the few lines before the passage begins. The first set of passages are translation exercises of 12-16 lines, each accompanied by a Discendum box which highlights a key feature of poetic Latin, equipping students further with the skills to tackle ever more difficult verse passages at first sight. These are followed by longer passages with scansion exercises and questions on comprehension and stylistic analysis, replicating unseen verse exam questions in full. The comprehensive introduction provides an overview of Ovid’s life and work, an account of some of the stylistic features of his poetry, and practical help in the form of tips on how to approach the more challenging lines of Latin verse and produce a fluent translation. A step-by-step guide to scansion, with practice exercises and answers, covers the essential principles for scanning lines of Latin verse, from the basics of understanding syllables, feet and types of metres, to coping with elision and caesurae. A guideline verse vocabulary list is provided which covers words particularly common in Ovid’s works. Broken down into small ‘checklists’, each corresponding to a group of four passages, the vocabulary is learnt cumulatively and as it is encountered. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Mathew Owen (Caterham School, UK)Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Imprint: Bloomsbury Academic Dimensions: Width: 13.80cm , Height: 1.50cm , Length: 21.60cm Weight: 0.296kg ISBN: 9781472509840ISBN 10: 1472509846 Pages: 224 Publication Date: 27 February 2014 Audience: College/higher education , College/higher education , Tertiary & Higher Education , Tertiary & Higher Education Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsPreface Introduction to Ovid Translating Latin verse Ovid's style Ovid's Elegiac Poetry: - Shorter translation passages 1-20 - Full translation and comprehension passages 21-40 Ovid's Hexameter Poetry: - Shorter translation passages 1-20 - Full translation and comprehension passages 21-40 An introduction to scansion and Ovid's metres Verse vocabulary checklists Index locorumReviewsOvid Unseens offers a wide-ranging and carefully graded collection of passages, giving students an excellent introduction to the poet and to the technique of unprepared verse translation. It is packed with sound advice and will be hugely useful. -- John Taylor, Head of Classics at Tonbridge School, UK and author of Latin Beyond GCSE Author InformationMathew Owen is teacher in Classics at Caterham School, Surrey, UK. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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