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Heroides

by Ovid

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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

Ancient Rome Imperial Rome Augustan Age Ancient Greece Ancient World Greek Mythology and Heroic Legend Homeric Epic Tradition Trojan War Epic Tradition Augustan Poetry and Roman Mythmaking

Genres

Classical Literature Mythological Fiction

Historical people

Ovid44 BCE–17 Ariadne Medea1987–2006

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