Selections from Ovid Heroides
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Selections from Ovid Heroides

An Edition for Intermediate Students

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Selections from Ovid Heroides

An Edition for Intermediate Students

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This is the first intermediate-student edition of a selection from Ovid's Heroides. Heroides VI, lines 1–100 and 127–64, and Heroides X, lines 1–76 and 119–50 are included as Latin text with an accompanying commentary and vocabulary. Focusing on a deliberately limited number of poems, this edition is designed to be manageable for students reading the text for the first time while also perfectly encapsulating the interest of Ovid's other work and inspiring further study of it. A detailed introduction explains points of historical and stylistic interest, encompassing the full text of both poems, including sections omitted here from the Latin, and also Heroides IV. The heroines of the Heroides are women in love who can do nothing but write sad verse letters to their faithless lovers across the sea. They tell their stories and express their feelings in poetry of great power and psychological subtlety. Hypsipyle (in VI) and Ariadne (in X) are feminists before feminism, royal ladies who are slaves to their passion – these women are given a voice by Ovid in poetry which is at once simple and sophisticated, heartfelt and yet also full of irony and literary resonance.

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Publisher
Bloomsbury Academic
Year
2019
ISBN
9781501350115
Edition
1
Topic
Historia
Subtopic
Historia antigua romana
Vocabulary
a, ab (+ ablative)
away from, by
abeo, abire, abi(v)i
to go away from
absens, absentis
absent
abstraho, abstrahere, abstraxi, abstractum
to draw, drag away
abundo, abundare, abundavi
to overflow
ac
and
accessus, -ūs, m
admittance
accipio, accipere, accepi, acceptum
to receive
acerbus -a -um
bitter
acus -u¯s, f
pin, needle
ad (+ accusative)
to, towards
adde (imperative from addo, addere, addidi)
consider also
adduco, adducere, adduxi, adductum
to draw towards
adedo, adesse, adedi, adesum
to eat away at
admoneo, admonere, admonui, admonitum
t...

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. About the Series
  4. Dedication
  5. Title
  6. Contents
  7. Preface
  8. Introduction
  9. Text
  10. Commentary Notes
  11. Vocabulary
  12. Copyright