Elegies (Tibullus - Oxford Juster transl.)

Author: Tibullus

Translator: A.M. Juster

ISBN: 9780199603312

Binding: paperback

Section: Literature of the Ancient World

Tibullus is one of the three great Roman elegists. In this volume, alongside the elegist's poems on love both requited and unfulfilled, the award-winning poet A. M. Juster provides a faithful and stylish new translation of his major work, with parallel Latin text. Meanwhile, 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.