num_pages: 164
description: Christine de Pizan (1364-?1430) was the first French woman poet to make her living by the pen, and the first female interpreter of classical myths; she held enormous power in the French court and influenced late medieval culture in France and in England in a number of ways. The Letter of Othea to Hector, her most popular work, is a series of a hundred verse texts about a mythological figure or moment, with prose moral glosses explaining how to read the myth in order to improve human character. It is translated here with introduction, notes, and interpretative essay.
language: English
title: Letter of Othea to Hector
titlecomplete: Letter of Othea to Hector
genres: Literature, Medieval, France
ratings_count: 10
series: The Other Voice in Early Modern Europe: The Toronto Series, Library of Medieval Women
publisher: State Univ of New York at