Ovid: Heroides I: Introduction and Latin Text, with Greek Translation by Maximus Planudes

by Duncan F. Kennedy

The Heroides, a collection of elegiac poems written as letters, fused Ovid's interests in erotics and myth into a new and unique genre, in which experiments with epistolary form and the psychology of first-person narrative would go on to have a profound influence on European literature. This two-volume edition of 1898 remains an essential resource for the poems; but it has long been difficult to obtain. It contains what is still the only detailed...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1904675050
• ISBN13: 9781904675051
• Release Date: November 2005
• Publisher: Liverpool University Press
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.01 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.5" x 8.5"