| Ovid: Heroides II: Commentary Contributor(s): Palmer, Arthur (Editor), Kennedy, Duncan F. (Introduction by) |
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ISBN: 1904675069 ISBN-13: 9781904675068 Publisher: Liverpool University Press OUR PRICE: $49.49 Product Type: Paperback Published: November 2005 Annotation: 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. |
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| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | African - Literary Criticism | Ancient And Classical |
| Dewey: 873.01 |
| Physical Information: 0.8" H x 5.08" W x 7.9" (0.78 lbs) 268 pages |
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| Publisher Description: 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. |