Heroides
Format: paperback
ISBN:
9781120032997 (1120032997)
Publish date: August 1st 2009
Publisher: Kessinger Publishing Company
Pages no: 570
Edition language: English
Ovid's Heroides is kind of like Carol Ann Duffy's World's Wife, except, you know, about two thousand years older. There are twenty-one poems, all written in the form of letters, mostly from wronged women in mythology to the men who have wronged them. We have Penelope henpecking Ulysses to come home ...