Book cover for Elegies: With Parallel Latin Text by Albius Tibullus, A M Juster and Robert Maltby

Elegies

With Parallel Latin Text

2012 Released
176 Pages
2-3 Hours
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Oxford University PressISBN 9780199603312
Tibullus is one of the three great Roman elegists. In this volume, the award-winning poet A. M. Juster provides a faithful and stylish new translation of his major work, with parallel Latin text. 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 Messalla in the reign of Augustus. Finally, Maltby's comprehensive notes explain topical, literary, and mythological allusions and identify major themes.

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A M Juster

A.M. Juster is the nom de plume of poet, translator, and critic Michael J. Astrue. His first book of poetry, The Secret Language of Women, won the 2002 Richard Wilbur Award. He has also won the Howard Nemerov Sonnet Award three times as well as the Willis Barnstone Translation Prize. A graduate of Yale University and Harvard Law School, Astrue had a long career in the federal government, where he worked in senior positions for four presidents. From 2007 to 2013, he was commissioner of the Social Security Administration.

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