Full 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, as well as extensive discussion of the text and its transmission. It also offers the full text of the translation of Heroides into Greek prose by the Byzantine scholar Maximus Planudes.
Contents
Contents
Introduction to New Edition
Palmer, Purser and Housman
Text, transmission and authenticity
Epistolarity
Intertextuality
The 'authors' of the Heroides: the politics of gender and tradition
Notes
Select Bibliography
Original Preface
Original Introduction
I Ovid and his Heroides
II The Chief Manuscripts
III The Translation of Planudes
IV Mr. Housman's Emendations
P.OVIDI NASONIS HEROIDES (Text)
MAXIMI PLANUDIS METAPHRASIS
