Heroides by Ovid

Heroides (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780140423556)

Vendor: Ovid
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Heroides by Ovid

Heroides

$18.00
Heroides by Ovid

Heroides

$18.00
Format: Paperback
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In the twenty-one poems of the Heroides, Ovid gave voice to the heroines and heroes of epic and myth. These deeply moving literary epistles reveal the happiness and torment of love, as the writers tell of their pain at separation, forgiveness of infidelity or anger at betrayal. The faithful Penelope wonders at the suspiciously long absence of Ulysses, while Dido bitterly reproaches Aeneas for too eagerly leaving her bed to follow his destiny, and Sappho - the only historical figure portrayed here - describes her passion for the cruelly rejecting Phaon. In the poetic letters between Paris and Helen the lovers seem oblivious to the tragedy prophesied for them, while in another exchange the youthful Leander asserts his foolhardy eagerness to risk his life to be with his beloved Hero.

Author: Ovid
ISBN-10: 0140423559
ISBN-13: 9780140423556
Publisher: Penguin Group
Language: English
Published: 10/02/1990
Pages: 288
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.46lbs
Size: 7.77h x 5.05w x 0.70d
By Ovid
By Ovid
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Ovid (43 BC-AD 17) was born in central Italy. He was sent to Rome where he realised that his talent lay with poetry rather than with politics. His first published work was 'Amores', a collection of short love poems. He was expelled in A.D. 8 by Emperor Augustus for an unknown reason and went to Tomis on the Black Sea, where he died.

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