Preface to the 2nd Internet Edition This web site reproduces the complete text of the book Roman Erotic Elegy: Selections from Tibullus, Propertius, Ovid, and Sulpicia, translated, with an Introduction, Notes, and Glossary by Jon Corelis (Salzburg Studies in English Literature Poetic Drama & Poetic Theory 128), which was written with the support of a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities, and published in 1995 by the University of Salzburg Press.
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For more about the author, please see his literary web site. The 1995 text is here reproduced in its entirety and without alteration except for minor corrections of spelling and typography, formatting changes to accommodate the transfer to the internet, and one or two changes of wording. (Serious students should note that accordingly the Introduction, Notes, and Bibliography have not been updated in the light of more recent scholarship.) The content of this web site is copyright 1995, 2006 and 2009 by Jon Corelis. The author hereby grants individuals permission to reproduce parts of the content of this web site electronically or in print for noncommercial personal, scholarly, or educational fair use with appropriate acknowledgment of authorship. This permission is limited to making copies of sections of the work of reasonable scope for the uses specified; reproduction beyond this limit without the author’s permission is prohibited. Reproduction in whole or in part in printed or any other form which is offered for sale, or on web sites on which advertising appears or for access to which a fee is charged, without the author’s permission is prohibited. The author may be contacted here. This first Internet Edition is current as of May 2009 and is compatible with Internet Explorer 7.0 and Mozilla Firefox 3.0. |