P. Ovidii Nasonis, Epistulae Heroidum
by:
Ovid (author)
Henricus Darrie (author)
Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9783110035872 (3110035871)
ASIN: 3110035871
Publish date: July 1st 1971
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Pages no: 336
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 ...