num_pages: 544
description: The Heroides is a collection of 21 poems in elegiac couplets. The Heroides take the form of letters addressed by famous mythological characters to their partners expressing their emotions at being separated from them, pleas for their return, and allusions to their future actions within their own mythology. The first 14 letters are thought to comprise the first published collection and are written by the heroines Penelope, Phyllis, Briseis, Phaedra, Oenone, Hypsipyle, Dido, Hermione, Deianeira, Ariadne, Canace, Medea, Laodamia, and Hypermestra to their absent male lovers. Letter 15 is from the historical Sappho to Phaon. The final letters (16–21) are paired compositions comprising a letter to a lover and a reply. Paris and Helen, Hero and Leander, and Acontius and Cydippe are the addressees of the paired letters. These are considered a later addition to the corpus because they are never mentioned by Ovid and may or may not be spurious.(source: wiki)Ovid s Amores are three books of love poetry ostensibly about the poet's love affair with his mistress Corinna.
language: Latin
title: Ovid: Heroides and Amores (Loeb Classical Library)
titlecomplete: Ovid: Heroides and Amores (Loeb Classical Library) (English and Latin Edition)
characters: Hippolytus, Protesilaus, Phaedra, Sappho of Lesbos, Jason (Argonaut), Lynceus, Dido of Carthage, Heracles, Theseus (mythology), Odysseus, Phyllis (wife of Demophon), Ariadne of Crete, Macareus, Hypermnestra, Phaon, Achilles, Canace, Paris, Orestes, Demophoon, Hypsipyle, Aeneas, Laodamia (daughter of Acastus), Oenone, Medea of Colchis, Briseis, Deianeira (wife of Heracles), Penelope (wife of Odysseus), Hermione (daughter of Menelaus)
genres: Classics, Poetry
ratings_count: 99
publisher: Harvard University Press