Heroides : Amores / Ovid ; with an English translation by Grant Showerman.

Author/creator Ovid author.
Other author Goold, G. P., editor, translator.
Other author Showerman, Grant, 1870-1935, translator.
Format Electronic
EditionNew edition / revised by G.P. Goold.
PublicationCambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, 2014.
Description1 online resource.
Supplemental Contenthttps://go.openathens.net/redirector/ecu.edu?url=https://www.loebclassics.com/view/LCL041/1914/volume.xml
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SeriesLoeb Classical Library ; 41
Loeb classical library ; 41. ^A467228
Abstract In Heroides, Ovid (43 BCE-17CE) allows legendary women to narrate their memories and express their emotions in verse letters to absent husbands and lovers. Ovid's Amores are three books of elegies ostensibly about the poet's love affair with his mistress Corinna. Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso, 43 BCE-17 CE), born at Sulmo, studied rhetoric and law at Rome. Later he did considerable public service there, and otherwise devoted himself to poetry and to society. Famous at first, he offended the emperor Augustus by his Ars Amatoria, and was banished because of this work and some other reason unknown to us, and dwelt in the cold and primitive town of Tomis on the Black Sea. He continued writing poetry, a kindly man, leading a temperate life. He died in exile. Ovid's main surviving works are the Metamorphoses, a source of inspiration to artists and poets including Chaucer and Shakespeare; the Fasti, a poetic treatment of the Roman year of which Ovid finished only half; the Amores, love poems; the Ars Amatoria, not moral but clever and in parts beautiful; Heroides, fictitious love letters by legendary women to absent husbands; and the dismal works written in exile: the Tristia, appeals to persons including his wife and also the emperor; and similar Epistulae ex Ponto. Poetry came naturally to Ovid, who at his best is lively, graphic and lucid. The Loeb Classical Library edition of Ovid is in six volumes.
General noteIncludes index.
Technical detailsMode of access: World Wide Web.
LanguageText in Latin with English translation on facing pages.
Source of descriptionDescription based on print version record.
Issued in other formPrint version: Ovid, 43 B.C.-17 A.D. or 18 A.D. Heroides. Amores. New ed. Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1914 9780674990456
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