About this title: The most comprehensive commentary in English on the Heroides, newly introduced for today's readership by Duncan F. Kennedy, in order to set the edition in context and give an up-to-date perspective on its scholarship.
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Description: 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 commentary in English on the whole collection, ... read more
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Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Bristol Phoenix Press, Univ of Exeter
ISBN-13:9781904675068ISBN:1904675069
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