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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
Commentary: 'Heroides'
1. Penelope to Ulysses
2. Phyllis to Demophoon
3. Briseis to Achilles
4. Phaedra to Hippolytus
5. Oenone to Paris
6. Hypsipyle to Jason
7. Dido to Aeneas
8. Hermione to Orestes
9. Deianira to Hercules
10. Ariadne to Theseus
11. Canace to Macareus
12. Medea to Jason
13. Laodamia to Prostesilaus
14. Hypermnestra to Lynceus
15. Sappho to Phaon
16. Paris to Helen
17. Helen to Paris
18. Leander to Hero
19. Hero to Leander
20. Acontius to Cydippe
21. Cydippe to Acontius
Appendix
1. On Hiatus
2. Coniecturae Bentleianae
Index
