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PublisherBloomsbury Academic & Professional

ISBN-101472509846

ISBN-139781472509840

eBay Product ID (ePID)166412857

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Number of Pages224 Pages

Publication NameOvid Unseens : Practice Passages for Latin Verse Translation and Comprehension

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year2014

SubjectAncient Languages (See Also Latin), Latin, Poetry, Ancient & Classical

TypeLanguage Course

AuthorMathew Owen

Subject AreaLiterary Criticism, Foreign Language Study, Poetry

FormatTrade Paperback

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Item Height0.5 in

Item Weight9.5 Oz

Item Length8.5 in

Item Width5.5 in

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Intended AudienceElementary/High School

Dewey Edition23

Reviews" Ovid 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", Ovid 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.

Educational LevelHigh School, Elementary School

Dewey Decimal871.01

Table Of ContentPreface 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 locorum

SynopsisOvid 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., Ovid 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.

LC Classification NumberPA6519.A6O96 2014