Ovid: Heroides I: Introduction and Latin Text, with Greek Translation by Maximus Planudes
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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Ovid: Heroides I: Introduction and Latin Text, with Greek Translation by Maximus Planudes
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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Ovid: Heroides I: Introduction and Latin Text, with Greek Translation by Maximus Planudes

Ovid: Heroides I: Introduction and Latin Text, with Greek Translation by Maximus Planudes

Ovid: Heroides I: Introduction and Latin Text, with Greek Translation by Maximus Planudes

Ovid: Heroides I: Introduction and Latin Text, with Greek Translation by Maximus Planudes

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781904675051
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
Publication date: 01/12/2005
Series: Bristol Phoenix Press - Classic Editions Series
Edition description: Bilingual
Pages: 352
Product dimensions: 5.40(w) x 8.40(h) x 1.10(d)

About the Author

Arthur Palmer was Professor of Latin in the University of Dublin and Fellow of Trinity College. The edition was completed after his death by his colleague, L.C. Purser. Duncan Kennedy is Reader in Latin Literature and the Theory of Criticism at the University of Bristol.

Table of Contents

Contents
Introduction to New Edition
Palmer, Purser and Housman
Text, transmission and authenticity
Epistolarity
Intertextuality
The 'authors' of the Heroides: the politics of gender and tradition
Notes
Select Bibliography
Original Preface
Original Introduction
I Ovid and his Heroides
II The Chief Manuscripts
III The Translation of Planudes
IV Mr. Housman's Emendations
P.OVIDI NASONIS HEROIDES (Text)
MAXIMI PLANUDIS METAPHRASIS
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