By Paul Murgatroyd,Bridget Reeves,Sarah Parker
This quantity bargains updated translations of all 21 epistles of Ovid’s Heroides. Each letter is observed by means of a preface explaining the mythological historical past, an essay providing serious feedback at the poem, and dialogue of the heroine and her therapy in different places in Classical literature. the place proper, reception in later literature, movie, track and art, and feminist features of the parable also are lined. The e-book additionally includes an advent overlaying Ovid's existence and works, the Augustan history, the originality of the Heroides, courting, authenticity and reception. an invaluable word list of characters pointed out within the Heroides concludes the ebook. this can be a important new source for someone learning the poetry of Ovid, Classical mythology or girls within the historical international.
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