"This is the first intermediate-student edition of a selection from Ovid's Heroides . Heroides VI, lines 1?100 and 127?64, and Heroides X, lines 1?76 and 119?50 are included as Latin text with an accompanying commentary and vocabulary. Focusing on a deliberately limited number o…
Annotation.
Between 1514 and 1663 the genre known as Heroides, coined by Ovid, was maintained almost entirely by modern Latin poets. This book considers the period, which has up to now remained almost unheeded in the history of the genre. It looks at the collections of epistles by relevant …
"The volume provides a full literary and textual commentary on three of the verse epistles (Heroides) by the Roman poet Ovid (43 BC-AD 17): the letter of Canace to her brother-lover Macareus; of Laodamia to the war-hero Protesilaus; and of Hypermestra to Lynceus, the cousin whos…
