Ovid's Heroidos /

Ovid's Heroidos / / Howard Jacobson.

A series of letters purportedly written by Penelope, Dido, Medea, and other heroines to their lovers, the Heroides represents Ovid's initial attempt to revitalize myth as a subject for literature. In this book, Howard Jacobson examines the first fifteen elegaic letters of the Heroides.In his cr...

Full description

Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton Legacy Lib. eBook Package 1931-1979
VerfasserIn:
Jacobson, Howard,
Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2015]
©1974
Year of Publication:2015
Language:English
Series:Princeton Legacy Library ; 1301
Online Access:
Physical Description:1 online resource (454 p.)
Tags: Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgements
  • Abbreviations and Short Titles
  • Introduction
  • I. Heroides 3: Briseis
  • II. Heroides 8: Hermione
  • III. Heroides 2: Phyllis
  • IV. Heroides 7: Dido
  • V. Heroides 6: Hypsipyle
  • VI. Heroides 12: Medea
  • VII. Heroides 14: Hypermestra
  • VIII. Heroides 4: Phaedra
  • IX. Heroides 11: Canace
  • X. Heroides 5: Oenone
  • XI. Heroides 13: Laodamia
  • XII. Heroides 10: Ariadne
  • XIII. Heroides 9: Deianira
  • XIV. Heroides 1: Penelope
  • XV. Heroides 15: Sappho
  • XVI. The Date of the Heroides
  • XVII. The Nature of the Genre: Ovid's Originality
  • XVIII. The Role of Perspective
  • XIX. Dramatic Structure
  • XX. The Heroides: Myth and Psychology
  • XXI. Variatio
  • Appendix
  • Select Bibliography
  • Index Locorum
  • Index Nominum et Rerum
  • Backmatter

Similar Items