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Heroides

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4.5(118)

Ovid’s Heroides gives mythological women and abandoned heroines the form of verse letters. Figures from Troy, Athens, Crete and other legendary settings speak from moments of betrayal, desire and loss, turning heroic myth into intimate Roman poetry about gender, memory and complaint.

Historical Periods

Imperial Rome27 BCE–476 CE Ancient Greecec. 1100–146 BCE Trojan War Epic TraditionMythic Bronze Age tradition Augustan Poetry and Roman Mythmaking40 BCE–17 CE

Genres

Classical Literature Mythological Fiction

Historical people

Ovid44 BCE–17 Ariadne Medea

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