Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Abbreviations -- 1. The life of Ovid -- 2. The Amores -- 4. Select bibliography -- 5. Scansion -- Prosody -- Elision -- The elegiac couplet -- Reading aloud -- 6. Epigram: preface from the author -- Notes on the Epigram -- 7. Amores 1.1: Ovid finds his muse -- Suggested reading -- Amores 1.1 -- Notes on Amores 1.1 -- 8. Amores 1.2: Conquered by Cupid -- Suggested reading -- Amores 1.2 -- Notes on Amores 1.2 -- 9. Amores 1.3: Just give me a chance -- Suggested reading -- Amores 1.3 -- Notes on Amores 1.3 -- 10. Amores 1.4: Secret signs -- Appendix: the vir -- Suggested reading -- Amores 1.4 -- Notes on Amores 1.4 -- 11. Amores 1.5: The siesta -- Suggested reading -- Amores 1.5 -- Notes on Amores 1.5 -- 12. Amores 1.6: On the doorstep -- Suggested reading -- Amores 1.6 -- Notes on Amores 1.6 -- 13. Amores 1.7: Violence and love -- Suggested reading -- Amores 1.7 -- Notes on Amores 1.7 -- 14. Amores 1.8: The bad influence -- Suggested reading -- Amores 1.8 -- Notes on Amores 1.8 -- 15. Amores 1.9: Love and war -- Suggested reading -- Amores 1.9 -- Notes on Amores 1.9 -- 16. Amores 1.10: Love for sale -- Suggested reading -- Amores 1.10 -- Notes on Amores 1.10 -- 17. Amores 1.11: Sending a message -- Suggested reading -- Amores 1.11 -- Notes on Amores 1.11 -- 18. Amores 1.12: Shooting messengers -- Amores 1.12 -- Notes on Amores 1.12 -- 19. Amores 1.13: Oh how I hate to get up in the morning -- Suggested reading -- Amores 1.13 -- Notes on Amores 1.13 -- 20. Amores 1.14: Bad hair -- Suggested reading -- Amores 1.14 -- Notes on Amores 1.14 -- 21. Amores 1.15: Poetic immortality -- Suggested reading -- Amores 1.15 -- Notes on Amores 1.15 -- Full vocabulary for Ovid's Amores, Book 1.
Although influenced by poets such as Catullus, Ovid demonstrates a much greater awareness of the funny side of love than any of his predecessors. The Amores is a collection of romantic poems centered on the poet's own complicated love life. This edition of the first book of the collection contains the complete Latin text of Book 1, along with commentary, notes, full vocabulary and embedded audio files of the original text read aloud by Aleksandra Szypowska.