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Language: en
Pages: 277
Pages: 277
Type: BOOK - Published: 2017-05-18 - Publisher: Taylor & Francis
This volume offers up-to-date translations of all 21 epistles of Ovid’s Heroides. Each letter is accompanied by a preface explaining the mythological backgrou
Language: en
Pages: 288
Pages: 288
Type: BOOK - Published: 2004-11-25 - Publisher: Penguin UK
In the twenty-one poems of the Heroides, Ovid gave voice to the heroines and heroes of epic and myth. These deeply moving literary epistles reveal the happiness
Language: en
Pages: 453
Pages: 453
Type: BOOK - Published: 2015-03-08 - Publisher: Princeton University Press
A series of letters purportedly written by Penelope, Dido, Medea, and other heroines to their lovers, the Heroides represents Ovid's initial attempt to revitali
Language: en
Pages: 344
Pages: 344
Type: BOOK - Published: 1995 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Ovid's Heroides, a collection of twenty-one epistles in elegiac verse, consists of two groups, the first comprising fourteen poems addressed by heroines of myth
Language: en
Pages: 201
Pages: 201
Type: BOOK - Published: 2005-07-14 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Ovid's Heroides, a catalogue of letters by women who have been deserted, has too frequently been examined as merely a lament. In a new departure, this book port
