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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 and torment of love, as the writers tell of their pain at separation, forgiveness of infidelity or anger at... Read Full Overview

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 background, and an essay offering critical remarks on the poem, and discussion of the heroine and her treatment elsewhere... Read Full Overview

The Heroides, written by Ovid some 2000 years ago, consists of a series of imaginary letters by legendary females of antiquity to their hapless lovers or husbands. The verse letters - purportedly penned by such heroines as Helen, Medea, Penelope, Dido, and Sappho - are the outpourings... Read Full Overview

The Heroides, written by Ovid some 2000 years ago, consists of a series of imaginary letters by legendary females of antiquity to their hapless lovers or husbands. The verse letters - purportedly penned by such heroines as Helen, Medea, Penelope, Dido, and Sappho - are the outpourings... Read Full Overview

Des 21 lettres appelees Heroides, seules les 14 premieres meritent reellement leur nom: le recueil en effet regroupe non seulement les lettres d'heroines a leurs amants, comme celles si celebres de Penelope a Ulysse ou bien d'Ariane a Thesee, mais aussi, moins connues, de lettres... Read Full Overview

A series of letters purportedly written by Penelope, Dido, Medea, and other heroines to their lovers, the Heroides represents Ovid's initial attempt to revitalize myth as a subject for literature. In this book, Howard Jacobson examines the first fifteen elegaic letters of the... Read Full Overview

Les H ro des (en latin Heroides ou Epistulae heroidum) sont des lettres fictives. Ce sont des lettres d'amour fictives qui reprennent des l ments mythiques, crites, pour la plupart, par des h ro nes mythologiques ou quasi-l gendaires, se plaignant de l'absence ou de l'indiff... Read Full Overview

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This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely... Read Full Overview

A collection of elegiac poems written by the Roman poet Ovid, each from the perspective of a legendary or mythological woman writing a letter to her absent lover.

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base... Read Full Overview

Las Heroidas es una obra po tica de la antigua Roma que presenta cartas de hero nas mitol gicas a sus amantes indiferentes. Los personajes van desde la cautivadora Helena de Troya hasta la astuta Pen lope. Los poemas son una mezcla de pasi n y decepci n, lo que hace que sea... Read Full Overview

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original... Read Full Overview

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.

This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely... Read Full Overview

A collection of elegiac poems written by the Roman poet Ovid, each from the perspective of a legendary or mythological woman writing a letter to her absent lover.

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base... Read Full Overview

Las Heroidas es una obra po tica de la antigua Roma que presenta cartas de hero nas mitol gicas a sus amantes indiferentes. Los personajes van desde la cautivadora Helena de Troya hasta la astuta Pen lope. Los poemas son una mezcla de pasi n y decepci n, lo que hace que sea... Read Full Overview