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Ovid, Amores (Book 1)

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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