Ovid
Heroides.
The Beautiful Letters
Regular price
€14,90
| N° d'inventaire | 30714 |
| Format | 11 x 18 |
| Détails | 378 p., paperback. |
| Publication | Paris, 2024 |
| Etat | Nine |
| ISBN | 9782251455273 |
"This is your Penelope who sent her to you, lazy Ulysses; but don't answer me, come yourself." (I, 1-2)
"The letter you are reading comes from the abducted Briseis; with great difficulty my barbarian hand was able to write it correctly in Greek." (II, 1-2)
“Read to the end, whatever happens: what harm can a letter that one reads do?” (IV, 3)
Composed between 25 and 16 BC, Ovid's Heroides is a collection of fifteen imaginary letters sent by unhappy heroines to the man who abandoned them; they also include the letters of three mythical couples (Helen/Paris, Hero/Leander, Cydippe/Acontius). Letters of love and despair, betrayal and revenge, passion and pain, desire, jealousy, anger, and sometimes humor, the Heroides express the many faces of romantic suffering and stir the emotions of readers of yesterday and today.
"The letter you are reading comes from the abducted Briseis; with great difficulty my barbarian hand was able to write it correctly in Greek." (II, 1-2)
“Read to the end, whatever happens: what harm can a letter that one reads do?” (IV, 3)
Composed between 25 and 16 BC, Ovid's Heroides is a collection of fifteen imaginary letters sent by unhappy heroines to the man who abandoned them; they also include the letters of three mythical couples (Helen/Paris, Hero/Leander, Cydippe/Acontius). Letters of love and despair, betrayal and revenge, passion and pain, desire, jealousy, anger, and sometimes humor, the Heroides express the many faces of romantic suffering and stir the emotions of readers of yesterday and today.
"The letter you are reading comes from the abducted Briseis; with great difficulty my barbarian hand was able to write it correctly in Greek." (II, 1-2)
“Read to the end, whatever happens: what harm can a letter that one reads do?” (IV, 3)
Composed between 25 and 16 BC, Ovid's Heroides is a collection of fifteen imaginary letters sent by unhappy heroines to the man who abandoned them; they also include the letters of three mythical couples (Helen/Paris, Hero/Leander, Cydippe/Acontius). Letters of love and despair, betrayal and revenge, passion and pain, desire, jealousy, anger, and sometimes humor, the Heroides express the many faces of romantic suffering and stir the emotions of readers of yesterday and today.