The Lydia is a bucolic monody lamenting the singer's separation from his beloved, Lydia. The new Latin text, accompanied by an English translation, offers numerous improvements against that of previous editions, while the commentary provides comprehensive textual, linguistic, and literary exegesis of the poem in its cultural context.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
- Preface
- Introduction
- 1: The Lydia and the Dirae: unity, chronology, authorship
- 2: Poetic frameworks
- 3: A note on the language and metre
- 4: Manuscript tradition and the text
- LYDIA
- Text and apparatus criticus
- Translation
- Commentary
- Bibliography
- Indexes