Book Details
Format
Hardcover
Pages
339
Language
English
Published
Jan 26, 1996
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
ISBN-10
0521362792
ISBN-13
9780521362795
Description
In this volume, Professor Knox provides the first full-scale commentary in English in this century on a selection from Ovid's Heroides, a collection of letters in elegiac verse supposedly addressed by heroines of mythology to their absent lovers or husbands. This edition is intended to provide students of Latin literature with guidance in the interpretation of these poems. The Introduction also includes a general account of Ovid's career and the place of the Heroides in the development of Augustan poetry.