Reading Ovid in Medieval Wales

by Paul Russell

Book Overview

Reading Ovid in Medieval Wales provides the first complete edition and discussion of the earliest surviving fragment of Ovid's Ars amatoria, or The Art of Love, which derives from ninth-century Wales; the manuscript, which is preserved in Oxford, is heavily glossed mainly in Latin but also in Old Welsh. This study, by Classical and Celtic scholar Paul Russell, discusses the significance of the manuscript for classical studies...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0814253776
• ISBN13: 9780814253779
• Release Date: April 2023
• Publisher: Ohio State University Press
• Length: 312 Pages
• Weight: 1.02 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"