Ovid's Heroines / [translated by] Clare Pollard.

Ovid, 43 B.C.-17 A.D. or 18 A.D., author
Pollard, Clare, translator

Tarset, Northumberland : Bloodaxe Books, 2013.
Tarset, Northumberland : Bloodaxe Books, 2013.

110 pages : maps (black and white) ; 22 cm

Translated from the Latin.
Includes bibliographical references.

Ovid's 'Heroides', written in Rome some time between 25 and 16 BC, was once his most popular work. The title translates as 'Heroines', and it's a series of poems in the voices of women from Greek and Roman myth - including Phaedra, Medea, Penelope and Ariadne - addressed to the men they love. Clare Pollard's new translation rediscovers Ovid's 'Heroines' for the 21st century, with a cast of women who are brave, bitchy, sexual, suicidal, horrifying, heartbreaking and surprisingly modern.

9781852249762 (pbk)

871.01
800.441
871.01OVI

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Latin

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