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Ovid's Heroidos
By (Author) Howard Jacobson
Princeton University Press
Princeton University Press
19th May 2015
United States
Tertiary Education
Non Fiction
871.01
Paperback
454
Width 152mm, Height 235mm
624g
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 Heroides. In his critical evaluation, Professor Jacobson takes into cons