
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...


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...

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...
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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...

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...


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...
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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...
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The Heroides is a collection of letters written by Ovid in which he imagines the voices of famous heroines from classical mythology. The letters are addressed to their absent lovers, and each one is a passionate plea for their return, filled with longing, sorrow, and anger. The...
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This is a new edition of "P. Ovidii Nasonis Epistolarum Hero dum Liber, Interpretatione & Notis Illustr. D. Crisp. Helvetius", featuring Ovid's Heroides, a collection of verse epistles presented as letters from mythological heroines to their absent lovers or husbands. These...
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such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact,
or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe...

"Epistolarum Heroidum Liber," more commonly known as "Heroides," is a collection of fifteen epistolary poems composed by the renowned Roman poet Publius Ovidius Naso, or Ovid. In this work, Ovid gives voice to mythological heroines, crafting imagined letters from abandoned...