Ovid's Heroines

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ISBN-10:

1852249765

ISBN-13:

9781852249762

Author(s): Pollard, Clare
Released: May 30, 2013
Publisher: Bloodaxe Books
Format: Paperback, 110 pages
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Description:

Ovid's Heroides, written in Rome some time between 25 and 16 BC, was once his most popular work. The title translates as ""Heroines."" It is 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, sexy, suicidal, horrifying, heartbreaking, and surprisingly modern. ""This breezily modern take on Heroides is a delight. . . Pollard effortlessly brings legendary Greek and Roman characters like Penelope, Dido, and Medea, and their sorrows, out of myth and into the twenty-first century.""--World Lit. Today February 2014












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